I received several different ways to convert one Works to Word, (etc) thanks to the great people on this list. Onward to better things! Rita.

I need to move a file from Works to Word for someone working on a cemetery gravestones transcription. She has Word only, and gets computer "gibberish" when she tries to open the file. I have both programs. I tried: *opening the file in Works, *highlighting, *then Ctrl +C, *then opening Word, *then Ctrl + V. *Got nothing. Please, I need some computer magic help from one of you wonderful wizards! How is this done? Thank you so much in advance, Rita - Oconto CC

Hi all, This is forwarded for your information. Visit http://www.usgenweb.org/elections/election-central.html to see who has been nominated and has accepted their nomination. I would also remind you: * Voting of the WI sponsorship of the Special Projects Amendment ends on Friday, June 16, 2000, at 10 p.m. EST. * Submission of the WIGenWeb Project voter list will be sent to the appropriate Elections committee members covering our region tomorrow evening. I encourage all of you, who haven't done so to visit http://www.rootsweb.com/~wigenweb/rollcall.html to verify your e-mail address, and contact me, if I have it listed incorrectly. Thanks! Tina PS. Hope to see you in the IRC chat this evening.. :-) ************* Subj: [STATE-COORD-L] EC-Announcement- Nominations Date: 6/14/00 5:37:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: sagitta56@earthlink.net (Roger Swafford) Reply-to: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com To: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com Just a reminder that nominations close tomorrow night. Nominations will be accepted through 2359 (CDT) 15 June 2000. Members nominated on the 15th will be allowed 24 hours after the close of nominations to accept or decline.

Hi all, Wondering if Rusk Co. has a new coordinator yet? If not, is the old page accessible anywhere? When I try the URL: <http://www.rootsweb.com/~wirusk/> I get a "Not Found" error from rootsweb. Thanks! Dawn M. Knauft, CGRS Coordinator, Dane Co. WiGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~widane WiSearch, Professional Genealogical Research http://www.wisearch.net

Voting YES to put the following amendments on the ballot. Carolyn Caflisch Sauk County > > Article XIII. THE ARCHIVES PROJECT > > Section 1. The USGenWeb Archives Project shall have a Coordinator and > an Assistant Coordinator or other support team in place that can take > charge in case the Coordinator becomes unavailable for a period of 30 > days, unless there are extenuating circumstances. The USGenWeb > Archives(Digital Library) shall be a repository for public domain or > research documents and shall provide an easily accessible website for > online research by the genealogical community. > > Section 2. The name of the project shall be The USGenWeb Archives > Project. > > Section 3. The staff members of The USGenWeb Archives Project shall > elect one Representative to serve as a voting member of The USGenWeb > Project Advisory Board. > > Section 4. The Archives Project Coordinator shall be elected by the > project staff. The Coordinator in place at the time this section of > the Bylaws is amended shall be exempt from election procedures, unless > he/she is removed, resigns or is unable to perform his/her duties. > > Section 5. The Archives Project Coordinator is subject to possible > removal by a 2/3 vote of the Advisory Board and a 2/3 vote of the > project staff. A quorum of 75% of the project staff shall participate > in order for the vote to be binding. > > Section 6. If the Archives Project Coordinator is unable to perform > his/her duties, the Assistant Coordinator, or other support team, > shall serve until an election can take place among the project staff. > In the case of more than one Assistant Coordinator, they shall choose > among themselves to serve in the interim. > > ** > > Other Proposed Changes: > > Article II. > > Section 2. Change "The USGenWeb Project Archives" to "The USGenWeb > Archives Project" > > Article V. > > Change "one(1) representative each from The USGenWeb Archives Project, > The USGenWeb Census Project, and the USGenWeb Tombstone Project," to > "one(1) representative from The USGenWeb Archives Project," > > Article VI. > > Section 9. Change "and Special Project Representative" to "and > Archives Project Representative" Change "with the Special Projects" to > "with the Archives Project" > > Article VIII. > > Section 1. Change "Eight(8) voting members of the Advisory Board shall > constitute a quorum." to "Seven(7) voting members of the Advisory > Board shall constitute a quorum." > > Article XII. > > Section 2. Change "The USGenWeb Project Archives" to "The USGenWeb > Archives Project" > Carolyn M. Caflisch http:\\www.rootsweb.com\~wisauk Sauk County Wisconsin GenWeb Coordinator The Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild

For Jan, LOL, obviously when you said lucky you who live in WI, you haven't had the pleasure of one of their WINTERs.... hee hee hee. I migrated to CA and live there now, and it did take about a year before people actually trusted me with the WI sites and THIER information. On the mailing list, I begged and pleaded for help and then finally went for pity about the third year... Whining I posted "If you don't give up the info, the site will never be of any use..." A month later, I was up to my eyeballs. Now I have "helpers" who do all the work (typing obits, transcribing cemetery indexes, etc) and then I put the stuff up with full credit to them... So I am like the webmaster, and they are the actual people who put up the info... Another thing I had great luck with is purchasing books on the local area, for example some genealogical societies actually publish their info, like LaFayette county, so I can do research, and lookups and encourage people to buy the books, as it is copyrighted and can't be put on the web. In some cases, I am asking permission to put up indexes of published works... I share all your pain who have said 1) IT's A LOT OF WORK, and 2) INFO when you don't live there is hard to come by... But share in your JOY, when you send out I FOUND A LONG LOST RELATIVE!!!! By and far, the WI CCs are doing a ton of great stuff, and yes, there might be a few counties lacking, but, I firmly believe our users need to step up to the plate also... Some of these people are TAKERs and we need to encourage them to be SHARERs when we help them find something... Also, sometimes I find I am clueless to all the resources available, and then you hit the right person and get a flood of info so now you are concerned you can't get it posted fast enough... Nuff said, keep up the great work, I appreciate it tons, as I live outside the state and use WI pages a lot!!! R/S MAK --- WIGEN-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com

Just a reminder! The Waupaca County Bio forum is for posting biographies only as stated at the top of the page. If you should have questions or queries please post these at the Waupaca County Query Forum at http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/Waupaca. Also the biographies from "History of Northern Wisconsin" 1881 were transcribed by one volunteer and we do not have any other information on the subjects of the biographies. If I can be of further help please contact me at pajolova@hotmail.com. Paula WaupacaCC http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/index.htm ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

this is a good idea - that book is in our public library, and also the Historical library. That is a good idea for the "free time" I will have after I finish the centennial name indexes, and the 3 census films I am currently working on. this will be about 2005 I think! ;-) Seriously, tho, this will be my next project. And I can get both Lincoln and Marathon Counties copied. Thanks! And I agree - it is good to see all of us "getting along" Shelley

Yes, please put this motion on the ballot. Roxanne, St. Croix CC -----Original Message----- From: WIGenWebProject@aol.com [mailto:WIGenWebProject@aol.com] Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 5:39 AM To: WIGEN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [WIGEN-L] Special Projects Amendment ~ Vote Begins. Morning everybody, Voting will begin on Saturday, June 10th and will run until Friday, June 16, 10 PM EST. Each CC and Asst. CC (or Co-CC) will be accorded one vote, regardless of how many counties he or she sponsors. A simple majority of the Wisconsin CCs voting will constitute sponsorship or lack of sponsorship of this amendment by the state project. Tina ______________________________

Hello: Just another one of my two cents going on here (I'm going to be out of pocket change soon!). Actually, I wanted to add my own story to this, partly because it shows the power of what we are doing here with these county websites and throughout the entire genealogy Internet community. My gr.grandmother was Mary Ellen Yates, b. 1858 in IL, d. 1902 in WI. There was no death certificate, no obituary and very little info had come down to me as my grandmother, her daughter was only 7 when she died. Her other children had died when I was still in elementary school in the 60s, long before I became interested in genealogy. The only info I had on her parents was from her marriage license in 1876 giving her father as Rhuny Yates and her mother as Arminda Wilson. From other family members I knew that Arminda's maiden name was Scritchfield or Scrutchfield. I picked up the Pierce County, WI site in November of 1997. I thought that I had, over the years, found everything there was to be found on my family in the area, but I was pleasantly surprised that I had not. While transcribing the 1880 census for Spring Lake Township where my ancestors settled in 1867, I found a Wilson family living just down the road from my Britton families. The wife's name was Arminda, the same as my gr.gr.grandmother's. Living just a little ways further down the road was the family of Johnson Scrichfield. The light went on. I knew it was too much of a coincidence that someone with such an unusual last name and another person with the same name as my gr.gr.grandmother could be living so close together and not be connected. At about this same time, my mother and I were going through some old family photos she had been sent and in amongst them was a very elderly man in a coffin with the name William Johnson Wilson and a date on it. Click, on came another light bulb. Arminda and her family moved sometime between 1880 and 1900 to KS and then disappeared from my radar screen. I sent to the KS Vital statistics for a death certificate on this individual and found he was the half-brother of my gr.grandmother, Mary Ellen. It gave his birthplace as IL and his mother as Arminda. I knew I had the right guy. I found his obit which listed his birthplace as Higginsville, IL. I plugged Higginsville into the USGS, but only found one place in Vermillion County, IL, so I started there. No luck. Nor did the Bourbon Co. KS (where William Wilson died) have any further info on Arminda or her husband Shedric Wilson. I had found them in the 1900 census giving their birth month and year, but nothing more. They had disappeared by the 1910 census. There were no death certificates, nor a cemetery record in the county for them. And again, no obits. So now what? Back to Arminda's brother, Johnson. By this time, Illinois was placing their early marriage records online and I found a marriage license for Johnson and his wife Elizabeth Sanders in 1850 in Crawford Co., IL. I now had a place to start looking that I felt was more grounded in fact. By looking through the 1850 Crawford Co., IL census, I found Lewis Scrutchfield and family, including my Arminda. Now it was time for my Eureka. But there was more to come. I contacted a woman listed on the Crawford Co., IL website who, for a small fee would check materials at the court house. I wrote, sent my $25.00 and held my breath. Within a couple of weeks, I had Arminda's marriage license (which I never would have found on the Illinois online records, the name is given as Smithfield and Rhuny was so horribly misspelled it was unrecognizable), her father's probate materials from 1856 listing all the children named in the 1850 census, as well as one who had already married and moved out of the family home by 1850. And the fact that he was a widower by 1856, so his wife, Malinda had died during that 6 year time frame. The 1850 census records gave this families place of origin as Indiana. They have their pre-1850 marriage records online, so I gave it a shot. And another little gift fell down from heaven. There was their marriage record, giving Malinda's maiden name as Vest. They were married in April 1828 in Washington County, IN. What had once been a brick wall came crashing down in a matter of weeks. What would have taken years had been accomplished in a relatively short amount of time thanks to the Internet and to all who have been diligently placing genealogical materials online. And it all began with my own desire to help in that process by adopting a very small, rural county in the WIGenWeb project. Debbie Barrett http://www.rootsweb.com/~wipierce/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywashin/

Hi: Just wanted to add my two cents. This is one of the books that Nance Sampson in Burnett County photocopied Pierce County info from for me. It does indeed give lots of bios on early settlers, the nicest thing being, it was written during most of their lifetimes, or at least their childrens, so the info is more the "horses mouth" kind of stuff, rather than something second hand. Debbie http://www.rootsweb.com/~wipierce/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywashin/

Thanks Connie and everyone, I'm so glad I live in Wisconsin with good friends and neighbors, including the people of WIgenweb!!!!! Thanks for the offer Connie for the uploads I might be contacting you if the computer programer can't retrieve all my files. I do have a question on policy for the genweb pages. I have a list of over 4000 names of military files at the Polk Co. Museum. The museum charges $2.00 for the information. Can I put the index of names on the site and how to attain the information from the museum. Does the interfere with the policy of GENWEB for solicitation? Thanks again to everyone for their help and support. Have a great day Marie CCPolk Bill & CJ wrote: > YEAHHHHHHHHH Marie!!! > > Seems everyone is always so willing to holler and complain and not know what > is really going on!! I know the feeling as I am here in Pepin County doing > all the cemeteries by myself with the help of my husband and my kids ages 9, > 7, 6 and 4 and ya know what people dont realize all the work this takes!! I > say do what ya can and people should learn to appreciate that they have to > do alittle work on there own as well digging because they cant always have > it all handed to em!!! We do free look-ups for people and do cemetery stone > peictures all at no cost to anyone and most of the time we at least get a > thank you but there are plenty of times when we get NOTHING! That doesnt > matter to us we love the genealogy no matter whos family line they are thre > is nothing like digging and finding out the goods on a family! > I say do what ya can Marie and you yourself are the only one that matters, > if people dont think you are doing enough let them do some of it for awhile > they will change there tunes you wait and see!! Oh and Marie if ya need help > uploading anything I would be glad to help ya!!! > Connie/CJ co CC of Pepin & Rock Counties!!!! > Have a good one everyone......:-) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Marie Loughlin <mloughli@centuryinter.net> > To: <WIGEN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 12:28 AM > Subject: Re: [WIGEN-L] it's been a year wah! > > > Hi CC's > > > > I'm Marie Loughlin, up here in Polk Co., northwestern WI. My computer was > struck > > by lightning last year. I'm still trying to put all the pieces back > together > > again. But since that time, I have not be able to upload any more > cemetery's or > > veteran's records, but I have been able to help my queries out by other > literature > > I have been able to find. I work at the Polk Co., WI Museum in Balsam > Lake. They > > have quite an abundance of local history and genealogy. So, just because > my dates > > haven't changed, or my logo's are still the old ones, doesn't mean I > haven't been > > helping. My pages may say they haven't been updated since 1999 or 98, but > we have > > still been busy answering what we can. I would like to share with all of > you the > > thanks I have gotten on our behalf. I know, that this is all we get. > > > > Subject: > > Nels Fremstad > > Date: > > Fri, 9 Jun 2000 00:49:35 -0400 > > From: > > "Ron and Meg Lambalot" <megron@donet.com> > > To: > > <mloughli@centurytel.net> > > > > > > > > > > Marie!!!! Thank you thank you thank you!!! From the bottom of my heart > > a > > thousand times Thank You!!! He is a relative. I have always been told > > that the family name is Framstad, but in the Polk County records I have > > found Framstad and Framsted used, Framsted is used for Nels' sons death > > records. I have seen the name Fremstad but not in a way that I could > > link > > it to my family. Thank you again. I love GenWeb and the people who > > thought > > of it are in my prayers, I wouldn't have gotten half the information I > > have > > so quickly or made so many new friends, if it weren't for the GenWeb > > Project!! > > > > Meg Lambalot > > > > > > > > Subject: > > Babcock/Kittle > > Date: > > Wed, 07 Jun 2000 09:22:35 -0500 > > From: > > Talma Klaassen <tbk@wichita.infi.net> > > To: > > mloughli@centurytel.net > > > > > > > > > > Thank you Marie for the reading of the Hist. St Croix Valley. I believe > > this is the family I was looking for. Does your Genealogical or > > Historical > > society have a web site that would have listing of cemeterys? > > Much Obliged. Talma > > > > > > We do what we have available at this time. I know that some of the CC's > are out of > > state but the LDS Library still has items for posting or lookups anywhere > for the > > ordering. The libraries are very prevalent, maybe the CC's that are out > of state > > could direct the people toward the data bases that are available for the > county or > > area that they are coordinating for clues. I have found that these people > are most > > appreciative for anything they can get about their family. > > > > Just a thought from northwestern Wisconsin, > > > > Have a good day everyone, > > Marie > > > > > > MAK wrote: > > > > > Tina, Couple of thoughts on the "hasn't been updated in a year"... > > > > > > WHY do they think that? I had someone write that about one of the > sites, > > > checked it out, and the cc was adding away, they just didn't see it on > the MAIN > > > page, didn't try any of the links, so... To avoid this, I have a LAST > updated > > > date on each page that is automatic, each time I go into and edit a > page... > > > That way, anyone can see how lazy (ha ha ha) I have been... > > > > > > Second, maybe there isn't anything to be added at this time? Some sites > are > > > pretty awesome... > > > > > > Third, maybe the CC isn't out there any more (grin)... Did the person > try > > > emailing them and asking them what was new on the site and NOT get a > response? > > > > > > OK OK, I am on the side of us overworked, underpaided, not appreciated > cc's!!! > > > ROFLOL... but I wouldn't sweat the load. The majority of us are here > and > > > respond, maybe not as fast as desired by some, but certainly fast enough > to > > > earn our paychecks! BTW, I haven't recieved my first check, and it's > been four > > > years... R/S MAK > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! > > > http://photos.yahoo.com > > > > > > ==== WIGEN Mailing List ==== > > > Visit the Columbia County WIGenWeb Project Pages > > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~wicolumb/wicolumb.htm > > > > > > ==== WIGEN Mailing List ==== > > Visit the Eau Claire County WIGenWeb Project Pages > > http://users.rootsweb.com/~wieaucla/eauclair.htm > > > > > > ==== WIGEN Mailing List ==== > Visit the Crawford County WIGenWeb Project Pages > http://users.rootsweb.com/~wicrawfo/crawford.htm

YEAHHHHHHHHH Marie!!! Seems everyone is always so willing to holler and complain and not know what is really going on!! I know the feeling as I am here in Pepin County doing all the cemeteries by myself with the help of my husband and my kids ages 9, 7, 6 and 4 and ya know what people dont realize all the work this takes!! I say do what ya can and people should learn to appreciate that they have to do alittle work on there own as well digging because they cant always have it all handed to em!!! We do free look-ups for people and do cemetery stone peictures all at no cost to anyone and most of the time we at least get a thank you but there are plenty of times when we get NOTHING! That doesnt matter to us we love the genealogy no matter whos family line they are thre is nothing like digging and finding out the goods on a family! I say do what ya can Marie and you yourself are the only one that matters, if people dont think you are doing enough let them do some of it for awhile they will change there tunes you wait and see!! Oh and Marie if ya need help uploading anything I would be glad to help ya!!! Connie/CJ co CC of Pepin & Rock Counties!!!! Have a good one everyone......:-) ----- Original Message ----- From: Marie Loughlin <mloughli@centuryinter.net> To: <WIGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 12:28 AM Subject: Re: [WIGEN-L] it's been a year wah! > Hi CC's > > I'm Marie Loughlin, up here in Polk Co., northwestern WI. My computer was struck > by lightning last year. I'm still trying to put all the pieces back together > again. But since that time, I have not be able to upload any more cemetery's or > veteran's records, but I have been able to help my queries out by other literature > I have been able to find. I work at the Polk Co., WI Museum in Balsam Lake. They > have quite an abundance of local history and genealogy. So, just because my dates > haven't changed, or my logo's are still the old ones, doesn't mean I haven't been > helping. My pages may say they haven't been updated since 1999 or 98, but we have > still been busy answering what we can. I would like to share with all of you the > thanks I have gotten on our behalf. I know, that this is all we get. > > Subject: > Nels Fremstad > Date: > Fri, 9 Jun 2000 00:49:35 -0400 > From: > "Ron and Meg Lambalot" <megron@donet.com> > To: > <mloughli@centurytel.net> > > > > > Marie!!!! Thank you thank you thank you!!! From the bottom of my heart > a > thousand times Thank You!!! He is a relative. I have always been told > that the family name is Framstad, but in the Polk County records I have > found Framstad and Framsted used, Framsted is used for Nels' sons death > records. I have seen the name Fremstad but not in a way that I could > link > it to my family. Thank you again. I love GenWeb and the people who > thought > of it are in my prayers, I wouldn't have gotten half the information I > have > so quickly or made so many new friends, if it weren't for the GenWeb > Project!! > > Meg Lambalot > > > > Subject: > Babcock/Kittle > Date: > Wed, 07 Jun 2000 09:22:35 -0500 > From: > Talma Klaassen <tbk@wichita.infi.net> > To: > mloughli@centurytel.net > > > > > Thank you Marie for the reading of the Hist. St Croix Valley. I believe > this is the family I was looking for. Does your Genealogical or > Historical > society have a web site that would have listing of cemeterys? > Much Obliged. Talma > > > We do what we have available at this time. I know that some of the CC's are out of > state but the LDS Library still has items for posting or lookups anywhere for the > ordering. The libraries are very prevalent, maybe the CC's that are out of state > could direct the people toward the data bases that are available for the county or > area that they are coordinating for clues. I have found that these people are most > appreciative for anything they can get about their family. > > Just a thought from northwestern Wisconsin, > > Have a good day everyone, > Marie > > > MAK wrote: > > > Tina, Couple of thoughts on the "hasn't been updated in a year"... > > > > WHY do they think that? I had someone write that about one of the sites, > > checked it out, and the cc was adding away, they just didn't see it on the MAIN > > page, didn't try any of the links, so... To avoid this, I have a LAST updated > > date on each page that is automatic, each time I go into and edit a page... > > That way, anyone can see how lazy (ha ha ha) I have been... > > > > Second, maybe there isn't anything to be added at this time? Some sites are > > pretty awesome... > > > > Third, maybe the CC isn't out there any more (grin)... Did the person try > > emailing them and asking them what was new on the site and NOT get a response? > > > > OK OK, I am on the side of us overworked, underpaided, not appreciated cc's!!! > > ROFLOL... but I wouldn't sweat the load. The majority of us are here and > > respond, maybe not as fast as desired by some, but certainly fast enough to > > earn our paychecks! BTW, I haven't recieved my first check, and it's been four > > years... R/S MAK > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! > > http://photos.yahoo.com > > > > ==== WIGEN Mailing List ==== > > Visit the Columbia County WIGenWeb Project Pages > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~wicolumb/wicolumb.htm > > > ==== WIGEN Mailing List ==== > Visit the Eau Claire County WIGenWeb Project Pages > http://users.rootsweb.com/~wieaucla/eauclair.htm > >

Good morning. Just wanted to point out that I am seeing a whole different way of communication on this list, and I really like it!!! This is just wonderful, great ideas, supportive comments, lots of respect. I have always been very proud of this group, mostly because of the high degree of care expressed by the members. Now I am proud and just plain thrilled. I agree with the ideas that are being written. *Try to contact the CC and see what is up in a supportive manner, *send the letter of concern from the visitor (I would not give the identity as it is the concern that is the issue and not who sent it), *ask the CC what their goal is for that site (we are each very individual and should not be compared to one another, nor should our sites), *and outline what are the basic expectations for a WIGenWeb according to the agreements made in the past, to make sure that the CC understands why you have written (new logo, etc). If the e-mail bounces or there is no response within a reasonable amount of time (I liked the two weeks that was suggested by another as it is summer and vacation time, but whatever is reasonable), send an e-mail indicating that the site will be offered for adoption due to lack of response, and give them one more week. Guess that is all for me. Back to lurking and really happy about things. Rita - Oconto County http://www.rootsweb.com/~wioconto/

The complete 157 Waupaca County biogrphies have been posted to the website at http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/WaupacaBios Most of these bios detail the many places these subjects had lived before coming to WI before 1881. Many of them give dates, marriages, spouses names and birth dates/places, check them out and see if you ancestor is there. Even if your ancestor isn't the main subject of one of the bios-he or she may be mentioned within someone else's bio. Also for the County Coordinators that have not seen or used this book. It is GREAT. This book is divided by county into each county's townships, etc. It gives a short history of the township/area and then usuually following the history are biographies of some of the people living in that township. I do not have the book or else I would list the counties it covers. (I photo copied the pages I needed.) But you most likely could get this book through inter-library loan. The name again is "History of Northern Wisconsin" and it was published by Chicago: Western Historical Company in 1881 Hope you find your ancestor here! Paula Waupaca County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/index.htm ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

I invite you all to the WIGenWeb Project Meetings Place: IRC server: irc.rootsweb.com (6667) Room: #USGW-WI Time: 9 PM EST Wednesdays http://www.rootsweb.com/~wigenweb/irc-chat.html Tina

Voting YES to put the following amendments on the ballot. Robert Herald Clark County > > Article XIII. THE ARCHIVES PROJECT > > Section 1. The USGenWeb Archives Project shall have a Coordinator and > an Assistant Coordinator or other support team in place that can take > charge in case the Coordinator becomes unavailable for a period of 30 > days, unless there are extenuating circumstances. The USGenWeb > Archives(Digital Library) shall be a repository for public domain or > research documents and shall provide an easily accessible website for > online research by the genealogical community. > > Section 2. The name of the project shall be The USGenWeb Archives > Project. > > Section 3. The staff members of The USGenWeb Archives Project shall > elect one Representative to serve as a voting member of The USGenWeb > Project Advisory Board. > > Section 4. The Archives Project Coordinator shall be elected by the > project staff. The Coordinator in place at the time this section of > the Bylaws is amended shall be exempt from election procedures, unless > he/she is removed, resigns or is unable to perform his/her duties. > > Section 5. The Archives Project Coordinator is subject to possible > removal by a 2/3 vote of the Advisory Board and a 2/3 vote of the > project staff. A quorum of 75% of the project staff shall participate > in order for the vote to be binding. > > Section 6. If the Archives Project Coordinator is unable to perform > his/her duties, the Assistant Coordinator, or other support team, > shall serve until an election can take place among the project staff. > In the case of more than one Assistant Coordinator, they shall choose > among themselves to serve in the interim. > > ** > > Other Proposed Changes: > > Article II. > > Section 2. Change "The USGenWeb Project Archives" to "The USGenWeb > Archives Project" > > Article V. > > Change "one(1) representative each from The USGenWeb Archives Project, > The USGenWeb Census Project, and the USGenWeb Tombstone Project," to > "one(1) representative from The USGenWeb Archives Project," > > Article VI. > > Section 9. Change "and Special Project Representative" to "and > Archives Project Representative" Change "with the Special Projects" to > "with the Archives Project" > > Article VIII. > > Section 1. Change "Eight(8) voting members of the Advisory Board shall > constitute a quorum." to "Seven(7) voting members of the Advisory > Board shall constitute a quorum." > > Article XII. > > Section 2. Change "The USGenWeb Project Archives" to "The USGenWeb > Archives Project" >

On 6/9 I last wrote about an exciting discovery - finding info on my g-g-g-grandparents (CARPENTER). I'd been looking for them in central New York, only to find out that they'd gone to Wisconsin in the 1850's. I told you of all the neat items I'd learned. Well.......... I got blown away again over the weekend, when Saturday evening I received photos of the tombstones of my ancestor and his wife, another daughter of theirs from a gentleman in Richland County, WI. I had a question about one of the pictures, so on Sunday he sent me even more pictures (14 in all) of the family and the daughter's in law's lots and individual tombstone photos! The info from the tombstones of course gave me some of the date info that I needed for this set of ancestors. Also on Sunday this gentleman sent me all the CARPENTER info he had in his database for Richland County, WI. Then.... Late Sunday evening, a lady somewhere in Wisconsin sent me a blurb she'd gotten that gave me more info on my ancestor, a short bio along with the info that he and wife had had 12 children. (something to work on!) And then... the real kicker of the whole weekend, where my Mr. CARPENTER was born, that he had 12 siblings AND his parents names! What a wonderful week it was. I don't believe I could have asked for a better week! Thanks to both David and Marie for being so helpful and sharing the info ya'll had based on the clues I passed along. Tim Stowell Richland County, WIGenWeb host - http://www.rootsweb.com/~wirichla Crawford County, WIGenWeb co-host - http://www.rootsweb.com/~wicrawfo ASC WIGenWeb Chenango County, NYGenWeb host - http://www.rootsweb.com/~nychenan Madison County, NYGenWeb host - http://www.rootsweb.com/~nymadiso

At 07:03 PM 6/12/00 -0700, Kelly wrote: > >It's embarrasing to admit that you don't have time and would like to unload >a county. Colorado has a "wishlist" page for people wishing to adopt a >county that is currently adopted, as well as listing counties currently up >for adoption. I think this would be a good idea for WI, because 1) it >provides an assistant or contributor if one is wanted/needed, and 2) it >gives someone an easy "out" if they would like that. >http://www.rootsweb.com/~cogenweb/ccinfo/cowish.htm. When I saw this URL in reference to Wisconsin - even though you'd been talking about Colorado, the very first thing that came to mind at 1:37 AM was cow-ish? Instead of it being the Colorado wish list - co-wish. Guess I'm not getting enough sleep or am getting silly at this time of the AM! Tim

Hi CC's I'm Marie Loughlin, up here in Polk Co., northwestern WI. My computer was struck by lightning last year. I'm still trying to put all the pieces back together again. But since that time, I have not be able to upload any more cemetery's or veteran's records, but I have been able to help my queries out by other literature I have been able to find. I work at the Polk Co., WI Museum in Balsam Lake. They have quite an abundance of local history and genealogy. So, just because my dates haven't changed, or my logo's are still the old ones, doesn't mean I haven't been helping. My pages may say they haven't been updated since 1999 or 98, but we have still been busy answering what we can. I would like to share with all of you the thanks I have gotten on our behalf. I know, that this is all we get. Subject: Nels Fremstad Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 00:49:35 -0400 From: "Ron and Meg Lambalot" <megron@donet.com> To: <mloughli@centurytel.net> Marie!!!! Thank you thank you thank you!!! From the bottom of my heart a thousand times Thank You!!! He is a relative. I have always been told that the family name is Framstad, but in the Polk County records I have found Framstad and Framsted used, Framsted is used for Nels' sons death records. I have seen the name Fremstad but not in a way that I could link it to my family. Thank you again. I love GenWeb and the people who thought of it are in my prayers, I wouldn't have gotten half the information I have so quickly or made so many new friends, if it weren't for the GenWeb Project!! Meg Lambalot Subject: Babcock/Kittle Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 09:22:35 -0500 From: Talma Klaassen <tbk@wichita.infi.net> To: mloughli@centurytel.net Thank you Marie for the reading of the Hist. St Croix Valley. I believe this is the family I was looking for. Does your Genealogical or Historical society have a web site that would have listing of cemeterys? Much Obliged. Talma We do what we have available at this time. I know that some of the CC's are out of state but the LDS Library still has items for posting or lookups anywhere for the ordering. The libraries are very prevalent, maybe the CC's that are out of state could direct the people toward the data bases that are available for the county or area that they are coordinating for clues. I have found that these people are most appreciative for anything they can get about their family. Just a thought from northwestern Wisconsin, Have a good day everyone, Marie MAK wrote: > Tina, Couple of thoughts on the "hasn't been updated in a year"... > > WHY do they think that? I had someone write that about one of the sites, > checked it out, and the cc was adding away, they just didn't see it on the MAIN > page, didn't try any of the links, so... To avoid this, I have a LAST updated > date on each page that is automatic, each time I go into and edit a page... > That way, anyone can see how lazy (ha ha ha) I have been... > > Second, maybe there isn't anything to be added at this time? Some sites are > pretty awesome... > > Third, maybe the CC isn't out there any more (grin)... Did the person try > emailing them and asking them what was new on the site and NOT get a response? > > OK OK, I am on the side of us overworked, underpaided, not appreciated cc's!!! > ROFLOL... but I wouldn't sweat the load. The majority of us are here and > respond, maybe not as fast as desired by some, but certainly fast enough to > earn our paychecks! BTW, I haven't recieved my first check, and it's been four > years... R/S MAK > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! > http://photos.yahoo.com > > ==== WIGEN Mailing List ==== > Visit the Columbia County WIGenWeb Project Pages > http://www.rootsweb.com/~wicolumb/wicolumb.htm