Howdy Reba, and all... The Commission decision sounded pretty final, about not putting any of the Story of Bell County content on the Internet anywhere. I understand that there are concerns that too much money is made from the sale of SOBC to risk having sales undercut by putting the SOBC in its entirety on a web page. That's the Commission's call, of course. A committee has been appointed to review what the BCHC would want on a web page. Perhaps the thing for the BCHC to do is "host/sponsor" the current Bell County Genealogy and History web site, which is already in existence, and work on putting more Bell County history material there. The site is at no-cost to the BCHC, just as there's no cost for the websites I've established for the West Bell County Genealogical Society and the East Bell County Genealogical Society. I know in future I'll ask that content to be considered for placement on the pages be in a format that can basically be cut-and-pasted into the pages, rather than ask folks to transcribe material (or do it myself) only to have it removed later. The websites have been created to provide a way to help people find out more about Bell County history, and about the people who pioneered here, and have been followed by others who have seen Bell County as a place worthwhile to invest their time and interest in. One can expect there to be some communication differences in such a start-up effort. Such is the case with the SOBC. I just regret the long time in being notified it would not be okay to put its content on a Bell County website. So it's a good time to fall back and regroup, and see if the BCHC would like to have an Internet presence and, if so, what sort of information they'd like to make available to the public. A number of BCHC members do not have Internet access, so there's also a learning curve about what the Internet can offer and how to use it involved as well... that's okay. Patience helps, I guess. There are some BCHC members and Museum members that subscribe to this discussion list. Perhaps some ideas about what you'd think you'd expect to find on a Bell County Historical Commission page would be seen by BCHC folks. I'd like to have things have a much more positive tone, from this regrettable "learning incident" and move on to trying to provide better information through the Bell County webpages I'm trying to create and provide some useful, Bell County-unique history and genealogy helps for folks who don't live here, are home-bound for some reason, or don't know whom to ask for information. I sure don't want to be a "loose cannon" and attempt to impose my vision for what could be done about internet information for folks, and sour the BCHC on having anything to do with webpages, and the Internet, and so forth! ----Original Message Follows---- From: Rebalawler@aol.com Reply-To: TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com To: TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TXBELL-L] BCHC Instructions Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 17:49:12 EDT In a message dated 8/24/99 8:51:20 PM, you wrote: <<At the 23 August BCHC meeting, the Commission instructed that all material from the Story of Bell County (to include the biographical information from the Family History portions posted to the Biographies Board) be removed from the BCHC web site. That has been done. The BCHC web page will remain (basically) blank until such time as the BCHC provides information to place on the site. >> WHAT A SHAME..WHAT CAN ONE DO TO GET IT RE-INSTATED?????? _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com