From: "Dana Thomas" <[email protected]> To: "TXGenWeb list" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 3:25 AM Subject: COY Announcement 2000 The TXGenWeb Page Evaluation Committee would like to announce the winner of the 2000 TXGenWeb County of the Year award. Selected from the winners in 2000. This being our second year to give this award we'd like to say that picking from the 12 monthly winners was an extremely difficult task. Those monthly winners included: Burnet, Lampasas, Red River, Fannin, Frio, Clay, Lamar, Aransas, Gregg, Bowie, Kaufman, and Wilbarger. The counties are improving and we are proud to say that we look forward to serving as Page Evaluation Committee for next year. The 2000 TXGenWeb County of the Year award goes to: Frio County http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/3973/friogenweb.htm CC John Hawley mailto:[email protected] SOME of the outstanding features of this site: Very sensitive to their Mexican Heritage, Naturalization Roll, Communities & Settlements, English/Spanish translations Congratulations John! Not only does your work make us all proud, it gives us something to strive for in our own counties. The Page Evaluation Committee would also like to stress that ALL the monthly county winners are outstanding! Here's some especially outstanding categories we feel need some recognition with Honorable Mentions: Aransas for Early Residents of Aransas County, Comprehensive Marriage Records from Dec 1871 through June 1981 Bowie for Combining the TXGenWeb Project & Archives to compliment each other, multitude of records, Phantom Killer story, very scary!!! Burnet for Stories from Our Past, War in Burnet County Clay for Photos Fannin for African American Page, Towns, Communities, Schools & Photos, old letters verbatim that are unique Gregg for Newspaper Articles Kaufman for Help in using the Website, Kaufman County Cemeteries Need Your Help, Wall of Honor - Early Settlers Lampasas for Military Rosters for Lampasas County Lamar for Cemetery and Death Records Database, Marriage Database, Civil War Red River for 1830 Wavell Colony Register, Photo Album of school students and teachers Van Zandt for Cemetery Records Wilbarger for Photo Album Again, congratulations to Frio and ALL of our 2000 COM winners on a job well done! Remember, the Page Evaluation Committee is live and well and surfing your counties for the year 2001 COM and COY winners! Please see our new COY web page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txcass/txgenweb/COY.htm Dana Thomas Page Evaluation Committee Chairperson TXGenWeb Surfing Group page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txcass/txgenweb/cofweek.htm ==== TXGEN Mailing List ==== The TXGEN-L/TXGEN-D mailing list is for announcements and the discussion of issues concerning the volunteers of The TXGenWeb Project. This is NOT the proper list for posting genealogical research queries.