The Carroll Co VAGenWeb pages have been rehosted at rootsweb.com The URL is: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vacarrol/carroll.htm Please your bookmarks, and any links to my pages. Regards, Freddie S. FSpradlin@delphi.com 3448 W. 170th St., Torrance, CA 90504-2402

I'm against the amendment proposed by the ILGenWeb volunteers, and hope the VAGenWeb cc's don't want to help sponsor it. I don't like restricting cc's freedom to choose where they get FREE web space, or choice of tools. Linda

Forwarded without comment: ========================== The following two amendments to the USGW Bylaws were proposed in ILGenWeb. The voters of ILGenWeb passed the proposal by more than 2/3 of those voting. The proposed amendments and accompanying rationales have been sent to The Advisory Board, via a member of that body, for posting at the National Website. Please disseminate these to your state lists. ILGenWeb would welcome your co-sponsorship. Thank you, Ginger gingerh@shawneelink.com ------------- > >Amendment I >Article IX, Sec. 3: >In the interests of diversity, independence and autonomy of The USGenWeb >Project, state and county coordinators are encouraged to utilize a variety >of servers as hosts of their webpages. An attempt shall be made by the >national Advisory Board to avoid utilizing any one server organization for >hosting more than 40% of the total number of USGenWeb Project web pages. > >[ PASSED] Rationale for the above proposed amendment: The success and viability of the internet is in large measure a function of the multiple pathways available to communicate between numerous different sites. If one link goes down, others exist to take its place. So too is it advisable to have a multitude of servers which hold The USGenWeb Project's web pages. If most pages within The USGenWeb Project are based on only one server site, should something happen to that site, be it a physical disaster or a human one such as bankruptcy, The USGenWeb Project would be severely compromised. On the other hand, if The USGenWeb Project is based on a number of different server locales, one site going offline would not have that drastic an effect on the whole project. The proposed amendment strengthens the independence and autonomy of The USGenWeb Project, helping to guarantee the project's longevity. > >Amendment II >Article IX, Sec. 4: >While realizing that a variety of indexing and storage methods exist for >queries, obituaries, wills, archival documents etc., The USGenWeb Project >strongly recommends that county and state coordinators maintain control >over >these items after they are submitted to the USGenWeb Project or its >subsidiary state and county pages. Therefore, links for submitting items >to >sites outside of The USGenWeb Project are strongly discouraged, unless the >links themselves remain under the control of The USGenWeb Project >coordinators. > >[ PASSED] Rationale for the proposed amendment: The current bylaws (Article XI, Sec. 3) requires the local website to include an easily accessible area to researchers' queries. Article XI, Sec. 4 further states that "those sections of the website submitted or donated by contributors other than the website coordinator, shall remain with the website." Neither Sec. 3 nor Sec. 4 can be adhered to unless those parts of the web page are under the control of the County and State Coordinators, to be passed along to the next coordinator. The thrust of this proposed amendment is also to strengthen the autonomy of The USGenWeb Project and its constituent services such as query pages so that the Project does not become engulfed and incorporated by any other internet system of managing queries, wills, obituaries, surnames, etc. The queries, obituaries, etc. belong to the submitter first and secondly to The USGenWeb Project and no one else. Others may link to our pages - but our pages must not become their pages.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY VAGENWEB!!! Thanks Linda and Freddie! Yvonne in Burke, VA

On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Nancy Trice wrote: > It would be appreciated if all the SCs would fwd this to your state lists. > If someone would also fwd it to the ALL list? > > The form for CCs to add a link to their county sites on the RW resource > pages is now up and ready for everyone to use. This form is only for > adding a link to a county that is on RootsWeb. > > http://resources.rootsweb.com/~clusters/utilities/addsite.html This worked great! Not only did I get Limestone County, Texas added, with the name of my choice, "Limestone County TXGenWeb" but also my brand-new Rootsweb page, Chambers County ALGenWeb. I probably shouldn't mention Cumberland County VAGenWeb, with TWO URLs on the cluster page, one old and one new. oops. (LOL) David dmorgan@efn.org David W. Morgan Honolulu Hawaii Archives Manager --- OKGenWeb & NMGenWeb Projects Tombstone Project -- OKGenWeb & NCGenweb Projects http://www.rootsweb.com/~okbeckha/coordinate.html

The following VA files have been uploaded to the USGenWeb Archives: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb June 11, 1999 ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/augusta/court/2court20.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/augusta/court/3court21.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/augusta/court/3court20.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/augusta/court/3court19.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/augusta/court/3court18.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/bedford/census/1850cens.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/carroll/cemeteries/leonard.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/grayson/cemeteries/ballard.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/grayson/cemeteries/amosball.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/grayson/cemeteries/flwms.txt June 12, 1999 ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/augusta/court/3court24.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/augusta/court/3court23.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/augusta/court/3court22.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/botetourt/wills/willbka.txt June 13, 1999 ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/charlescity/wills/m5630003.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/misc/shiplaw.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/montgomery/bios/g4160001.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/nansemond/wills/willdeed.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/shenandoah/wills/c4100001.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/shenandoah/wills/h6230001.txt

Yvonne James-Henderson wrote: > > Excellent Freddie! > > Now, could you draw a pair of glasses on my picture please! <g> Yes...great job! But can you make my picture a little smaller?? And maybe put yours at the top, me under that? Linda

The VA Surname Register has been moved to rootsweb.com The new URL is: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaunknow/vasurnam.htm I've posted a "transfer page" at the old URL. Those of you with links to these webpages should make corrections to the URL. Regards, Freddie S. FSpradlin@delphi.com 3448 W. 170th St., Torrance, CA 90504-2402

Excellent Freddie! Now, could you draw a pair of glasses on my picture please! <g> Thanks and Take care, Yvonne in Burke, VA "homeschooling grandma"

I've FINALLY completed my update to the "Meet the Volunteers" webpage http://www.usgenweb.org/va/1vacc.htm linked off the VAGenWeb's homepage. It's the one with photos and lists of counties hosted for each CC (photos missing in many cases ...) The update was mainly to re-align the counties with the right hosts. If you're picture is missing and you'd like to see it added, send me a gif/jpg file or tell me the URL to use to link it to your name. Regards, Freddie S. FSpradlin@delphi.com 3448 W. 170th St., Torrance, CA 90504-2402

The "Unknown County" QueryPage has been moved to rootsweb.com The new URL is: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaunknow/vaquery.htm If you have a link to the querypage, please make a correction. I've posted a "transfer page" at the old URL. Regards, Freddie S. FSpradlin@delphi.com 3448 W. 170th St., Torrance, CA 90504-2402

Eve, You can request space for your county at: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi Be sure to indicate it's a USGenWeb county account. Linda

Hi Eve, When further questioned Brian answered to alleviate the problem! Hi Bob - You don't even need to link to the Resource pages. Just copy the HTML for whichever tools you want onto your own pages and otherwise ignore the Resource pages. The point of the mechanically-generated Resource pages was just to make sure the resources were created and available to the CCs. It's fine with us if those resources are used on existing pages with no link at all to the robot pages. Cheers, B. -- Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/ P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 leverich@rootsweb.com Take care, Yvonne in Burke, VA To have the rose, you must respect the thorn. (Persian Proverb) ************************** Viva la USGenWeb Project! Viva la USGenWeb Archives! Freely accessible and searchable! http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ **************************

Greetings All! When I visited the new Rootsweb cluster site for one of my Virginia counties, the message there says there is no web page at Rootsweb for that county. This is true. My county pages are on my ISP's server. I do contribute to Rootsweb financially, but have never put my pages on their server. Since it appears that my county pages won't be found there, unless I move them to the Rootsweb server, I guess I should do that. I'm willing. But I don't know how. Could some of you more sophisticated CCs clue me in? Thanx, Eve --- Eve S. Gregory, Director Virginia Foundation for Archaeological Research, Inc. egregory@techcom.net James City County, Virginia, VAGenWeb page & James City List http://www.techcom.net/egregory/jamescit.html Surry County, Virginia, VAGenWeb page & Surry List http://www.techcom.net/egregory/surry.html Surry County, Virginia, Historical Society http://www.techcom.net/egregory/SurryCoH.html

There's been considerable discussion raised on these "resources", reminiscent of the -ALL list of the past. My impression is that these things are there for us to use ... or not. I'm not fully conversant with what's there, but I intend to find out ... ;) Freddie S. ========================================================= From: IN%"leverich@rootsweb.com" "Dr. Brian Leverich" To: IN%"USGENWEB-ALL-L@rootsweb.com" Subj: [USGENWEB-ALL-L] Improving Our Ability to Serve the Public One of the things about life is you either keep improving or you become a corpse standing on your feet. That's true for RootsWeb, and it's equally true for USGenWeb. Since USGenWeb was founded, many other organizations have sprung up that partially or wholly attempt to clone USGenWeb's content: ALHN, GenExchange, Broderbund's GenForum, Ancestry, Randall Haight's genweb.net, ... If USGenWeb is going to stay the premier geographically-oriented genealogy project, one of the things it's going to need to do is continuously improve the range and quality of services it provides to the genealogical community. In tonight's RootsWeb Review, RootsWeb is announcing "County Resource" pages for every county in America. The pages include or will include links to USGenWeb sites on RootsWeb, a mailing list, a GenConnect suite, a link registry, search engines for the USGenWeb Archives and the RSL, an event calendar, a guestbook, and various other tools. You can see the County Resources at: http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/ We expect to be adding tools to the Resource pages as rapidly as we can. There will surely be a Social Security Death Index search and some other nice features coming on line in the not-to-distant future. ### So isn't this just another competitor for USGenWeb? ==> Not at all. <== While we're still working out the details, RootsWeb's intent is to put each County Resource page and all the resources on them at the disposal of the appropriate USGenWeb County Coordinator. CCs can link to the pages, or they can borrow the HTML from the pages and incorporate the tools directly into their own pages. How (or even if) you administer those resources is largely your own choice. That's your own choice. The tools are there if you want them. And there will be more and better tools available to you as time goes on. Speaking personally, I hope most folks choose to use the tools. USGenWeb is one of the two most impressive projects I've ever seen unfold on the Internet (the development of Linux is the other ... ), and I would very much like to see USGenWeb stay on the cutting edge of technology and provide better services to genealogists than any of its imitators. Cheers, B. -- Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/ P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 leverich@rootsweb.com

Speaking of new CC's... Tami Ramsey <tami@i-plus.net> is going to be taking over the county pages, mailing list, and Wilderness Road Regional Museum for Pulaski County. She is a wonderful person and a great addition to VAGenWeb. Tami was the driving force in starting, accumulating and scanning documents for the WRRM site. I want to thank everyone for their help over the past few years. Especially Linda Lewis, Carmen Finley, and Pat Shield. Good luck all, Mike Gwinn mgwinn@mediaone.net

Welcome Christine! Linda

A rousing welcome to Christine Goff [RGoff32403@aol.com] who's just decided to adopt Clarke and Warren Counties. Huzzah! Freddie S. FSpradlin@delphi.com 3448 W. 170th St., Torrance, CA 90504-2402