I deleted the message about the GenConnect site being down for awhile-can someone tell me how long it is suppose to be down? Paula ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Trying to get onto my site and having trouble-Is Rootsweb down today? Paula ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Forwarded as requested by USGenWeb Project National Coordinator, Tim Stowell. Tina _________ Subj: [STATE-COORD-L] Census Project(s) Date: 3/6/00 3:14:07 AM Eastern Standard Time From: tstowell@chattanooga.net (Tim Stowell) Reply-to: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com To: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com In early January I sent the following note to both Census Projects personnel: First a bit of background. On 8/31/99, I wrote to Ron Eason, Connie Burkett, John Jacoby and Maggie Zimmerman asking them to be members of a team effort to resolve the census division. I asked each member "to give a brief overview of how you 'see' the Census project being organized in the future." Looking over those first answers, I came up with the following items (my comments in parenthesis): - Having a standardized process of qualifying transcribers (I took this to mean that just because someone volunteered - they don't actually get to transcribe without agreeing to certain items and/or having the knowledge of how to do the transcription) - Answering questions of transcribers (answering questions of volunteers in a timely manner) - Consistent Appearance (for each set of files for a given census - all the files would have the same look) - State Assignment pages - that these be updated in a timely manner - so that would be volunteers would know the availability or not of a certain census and for the public at large to see the progress made - Census Files Location - have them so that they would be included by Rootsweb's search engine AND where only the Census FM's would have access to them (ie - the Archives FMs would not mess with census transcriptions - nor 'correct' them. They could not touch them at all.) The discussion went to about mid-September when it lapsed due to other issues for all involved. ------------------ Now with all that said - I move back just a tad further - for those of you not involved a year or so ago - The whole issue that we have today was I believe over a clash between two personalities who had differing ideas of how the Census transcriptions and their storage and presentation be handled. One of the major issues was that the Census folk have control of their own directories without the Archives FM's for x county/state messing with the files. ----------------- Now fast forwarding to the time frame of mid November, 1999 - Around 11/15, I asked Ron to remove Kay's name and address from the Census pages as her email address had bounced off the lists I maintain - so that folks would not write to an invalid address. I did not ask him to remove Holly Timm's name as the copyright holder of the page(s). I did ask that he either add Linda Lewis as founder of the Census project OR change the date of founding to the time frame when Kay set up the files elsewhere. At that time, speaking with Connie - he took over as head of that Census project. Then on 11/23/99, Sue Soden took it upon herself to try to get the ball rolling again by calling Linda Lewis to see if some agreements could come about. As published elsewhere they came up with a couple of agreed upon items - but lacking a consensus from other members of the management team that Sue was speaking for - these items were set aside. Since Ron had not been consulted, as head of the Census group he is working with. With minor talking back and forth - things cooled until around mid-December when Maggie in answering a note from Ron regarding some of the issues announced a new directory for the census transcriptions to go in: ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/state/county/census/fedcens/year - a place where only Census folk would have write access and Archivists for the states would not have access (thus taking care of one of the major issues above). On or around 12/11/99, Connie posted to the group that Rootsweb was going about the business of setting these directory structures up. She reiterated this on 12/21 and spoke of moving files from both census projects to these new directories. Now, things speed up as somewhere in the time frame of 12/22/99 - 12/25/99, Rootsweb personnel go ahead and make the directory redirect changes. I believe it could have been better handled but since it was not - it should not be the major stumbling block. ------------------- Please let us step back to the time frame of 12/11/99 - 12/21/99 - and go from there. The Bylaws state that there is to be one census project - let's work together to make it so. Let's return to the enthusiasm shown in the notes of that pre-holiday time. The major issue of controlled separate directories has been solved. The issues regarding who does what and other issues can be solved now or later. The main thing is to get the directory pages updated and the files combined in the new directories. Please remember that to do otherwise slows down the process of transcription, continues to confuse potential transcribers and the public in general. We owe it to these folk to move forward not on some personal agenda but to do this for our fellow researchers. This is a team effort. There is much to do. Please join me in moving this project forward. I stand ready to listen to your comments and your concerns so that we may cement this project. Thanks for your time, Tim Stowell National Coordinator USGenWeb Project

Forwarded by request. Tina ________________________ Subj: [STATE-COORD-L] Date: 3/6/00 12:58:03 AM Eastern Standard Time From: kshort@kroo.com (kshort) Reply-to: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com To: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com The choice of a representative for the seat of Census Project representative, motion 00-5, recently declared empty by Board vote on motion 00-4 is now under discussion by the Board. Motion 00-5 proposes that recently elected USGenWeb Census Project Coordinator Ron Eason be placed in that position. Since it is apparently under intense scrutiny, messages sent to Board-l@rootsweb.com will be forwarded to the Board at the request of the person(s) writing the messages. Timothy S Stowell email - tstowell@chattanooga.net Chattanooga, TN National Coordinator USGenWeb Project - http://www.usgenweb.org

Please all join me in welcoming Linda Dillon as LaCrosse County Coordinator. The LaCrosse County pages are located at http://www.rootsweb.com/~wilacros/ Tina

I had a few requests for the address and costs on this fiche so am posting this to the list. Mail check or money order to: Attn: Kris Hansen, Vital Records, P.O. Box 309, Madison, WI 53701-0309 (No charge for postage) Make check/money order out to Vital Records. Available fiche: BIRTH INDEX MICROFICHE: Pre-1907 Alphabetical 38 fiche $22.80, Pre-1907 Chronological 41 fiche $24.60 DEATH INDEC MICROFICHE: Pre-1907 Alphabetical 29 fiche $17.40, 1959-1979 Alphabetical 33 fiche $19.80 (This excludes 1968), 1979-1997 Alphabetical 68 fiche $48.80 MARRIAGE INDEX MICROFICHE: Pre-1907 Alphabetical 77 fiche $46.20, 1973-1978 by Groom 19 fiche $11.40, 1979-1997 by Groom 58 fiche $35.40, 1973-1978 by Bride 19 fiche $11.40, 1979-1997 by Bride 59 fiche $35.40 DIVORCE INDEX MICROFICHE: 1965-1984 Alphabetical 36 fiche $21.60 Paula WaupacaCC ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Just for general information-incase anyone is thinking about purchasing this fiche. I ordered the Pre-1907 Alphabetical Birth and Death Index Fiche for WI. I mailed my order with check on Monday and I received the fiche already on Friday. Great turn-around time. Paula ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Forwarded for your information. Tina ___ Subj: [STATE-COORD-L] Genealogical Events Site Date: 3/3/00 5:17:46 PM Eastern Standard Time From: pamreid@home.com (Pam Reid) Reply-to: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com To: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com Hi All, Kathy Hudson, who is a CC for several counties within The USGenWeb Project, has put up a Genealogical Events site so that people can be informed of where and when such events are taking place. I believe this will very helpful to many people. If you could pass this info along on your state CC lists, it would be appreciated. http://www.genealogyshoppe.com/events.html Thanks, Pam Reid

Here's the correct address: http://www.usgennet.org/~ahwibayf/contents.html

READ ALL ABOUT IT!!!! The Bayfield County Press of 27 February 1903 is on the stands along with a couple delightful articles on Bayfield's Beginnings, which you will find on the Bayfield's Past Page. Bayfield County Journal Memories Column of 21 August 1941, and Bayfield County Yesteryear Column of 16 October 1884 from the Washburn Itemizer have also hit the newspaper stands. Check these out - Zoe and John have been busy...... Also please keep an eye on the pages - Donna has some marriages and obituaries coming and I am working on a 1905 book index. http://www.usgennet.org/~wibayf/contents.html Enjoy, Jan, Donna, John and Zoe Bayfield County, WI.

It is with great sadness, that I write this note to all of you this evening. Patricia Dietrich, our WIGeneb Project, Rusk County Coordinator passed away on Friday, February 25, 2000. The WIGenweb Project, and the Wisconsin Genealogical community has lost a wonderful friend, and contributor. The WIGenWeb Project extends our deepest sympathies and condolences to Pat's family and friends. A memorial page has been placed at http://www.rootsweb.com/~wirusk/ Please feel free to use the wood violet graphic on your sites in fond remembrance and appreciation of Pat's contribution to the WIGenWeb Project and the Wisconsin Genealogical community. Sincerely, Tina Vickery, SC WIGenWeb Project Tim Stowell, ASC WIGenWeb Project Kelly Mullins, WIGenWeb Project Webmistress

Hi all, Tomorrow evening is 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 I have invited Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman and Kelly Mullins to tell us about the The USGenWeb Archives Census Project and answer any questions you may have about transcribing, proofreading or participating in this project. Wisconsin's USGenWeb Archives Census Page is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/census/states/wisconsi/wisconsi.htm Hope you can join us! Tina

Hi all: With the 145th anniversary of the end of the Civil War close at hand and Memorial Day shortly thereafter, I have written a short story about my gr.gr.uncle, William Allen Freeman, who died during the Civil War. It is also a call to remember all soldiers who have fought for the United States during it's 225 year history. It can be viewed at <http://www.rootsweb.com/~wipierce/memorial.htm> All graphics are there, but you might have to hit your refresh button to get them all to come up. Debbie Barrett <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~wipierce/">Pierce County, WI USGenWeb</A>

Tina, You will be happy to note that Camp Pendleton is requiring all service members to fill out TWO, one to be submitted by the Marine Corps and one by the civilian sector... In fact, they are recruiting census takers. R/S MAK --- WIGEN-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > ______________________________ > Subj: [STATE-COORD-L] Census 2000 > Date: 2/25/00 11:35:44 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: pamreid@home.com (Pam Reid) > Reply-to: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com > To: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com > > Hi All, > > Jim Williams who is a VA CC pointed out to us that the National USGW > site lacked any mention of Census 2000. We are all aware of the > importance of census data in genealogical endeavors and most of know > that the census has MANY other very important uses besides. > > I have created a page for Census 2000 on the USGenWeb National Site. > There is a link from the front page at http://www.usgenweb.com/ (which > is pretty neat as it has a very nice animated graphic) with a blurb and > then a link to the Census 2000 page I set up. I also link from that > page to the U.S. Census Bureau page. The Census 2000 page is at > http://www.usgenweb.com/census-2000/census-2000.html > > It would be great if all of you would link to this page or at least > mention Census 2000 on your state pages. And, if you could pass the > info along on your CC lists, that would be a big help. > > Anyone is free to use the graphics. The animated one is great and the > other one is huge! U.S. Census Bureau has a whole site devoted to > publicizing Census 2000 and that is where the logos came from. They > also have a lot of other information. > http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/advtoolkit.html > > If someone could pass this along to the Census list, I would appreciate > it. I don't think I have posting ability there. > > Thanks so much! > Pam Reid > ===== ===== TheStorm http://www.rootsweb.com/TheStorm MAK = "Mar sea ah Ann Keel" ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

If anyone has volunteers or anyone in their counties (or themselves) who have indicated an interest in the WI Census project, it is getting cleaned up fairly fast although the speed will likely drop off now after this first rush. over 70 county/year assignments have been reverted back to "available" if anyone is interested in pursuing this project. If you have interest in something that is currently "assigned", please don't hesitate to ask.. it might be because I haven't gotten a response yet, or I have been unable to find their email address. At any rate, the project has sat stagnant for entirely too long, and I intend to start replacing assignments if I can't get ahold of the "body" who has been sitting on them for over a year. Kelly Kelly Jensen-Mullins Wisconsin Archives Census http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/census/states/wisconsi/wisconsi.htm

Forwarded as requested. Tina _____ Subj: [STATE-COORD-L] Census 2000 Date: 2/25/00 11:35:44 PM Eastern Standard Time From: pamreid@home.com (Pam Reid) Reply-to: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com To: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com Hi All, Jim Williams who is a VA CC pointed out to us that the National USGW site lacked any mention of Census 2000. We are all aware of the importance of census data in genealogical endeavors and most of know that the census has MANY other very important uses besides. I have created a page for Census 2000 on the USGenWeb National Site. There is a link from the front page at http://www.usgenweb.com/ (which is pretty neat as it has a very nice animated graphic) with a blurb and then a link to the Census 2000 page I set up. I also link from that page to the U.S. Census Bureau page. The Census 2000 page is at http://www.usgenweb.com/census-2000/census-2000.html It would be great if all of you would link to this page or at least mention Census 2000 on your state pages. And, if you could pass the info along on your CC lists, that would be a big help. Anyone is free to use the graphics. The animated one is great and the other one is huge! U.S. Census Bureau has a whole site devoted to publicizing Census 2000 and that is where the logos came from. They also have a lot of other information. http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/advtoolkit.html If someone could pass this along to the Census list, I would appreciate it. I don't think I have posting ability there. Thanks so much! Pam Reid

>From the Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/umhtml/umhome.html Tim

Nance, I think if he does a little checking (Click on Start then go up to Settings then Click on Control Panel then Click on System) he will find he has an insufficent quanity of RAM (memory). He maybe running 32 megs or less, I run into this problem a lot while tutoring students on the computer, and after they go up to 64 megs or more, they find no problems. JT PS Also the amount of RAM maybe enough, but he may have a lot of RAM thieves (programs that start as soon as windows does) in his system. I would be more then happy to help him out, if he wishes me too, just have him email me direct at wirock@yahoo.com :-) Hello fellow CC's, I received a message this afternoon from someone who has tried to view the Sawyer Co. WIGenWeb page, but has not been able to. I don't know the reason why this person can't get the page to load right. This is the only complaint that I've had on this page. Would someone mind checking it out to see if it loads up correctly for you or not? I've checked it with both Netscape 4.7 and IE 5.0 and can't re-create the problem. The URL is: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wisawyer/ Thanks for any help or advice you can give me. Oh, here is a copy of the complaint so you will know what this person was experiencing (she's using IE) : Dear Nance, Your WebSite for Sawyer Co. looks good when I first enter, but as I scroll it gets smeary and I cannot find or click on any of the links. I was able to print out a good portion of each page (the right side was cut off) and it looks like you have a lot there, but cannot access any of it because of whatever is happening when I try to scroll to the side or down. Hope this can be fixed. I had relatives in Sawyer Co. during the first part of 1900 and hope to find more info. None of the other Web pages I have gone to have done this. Thanks for your help. -- Nance mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net ==== WIGEN Mailing List ==== Visit the Ashland County WIGenWeb Project Pages http://www.usgennet.org/~ahwiashl/index.html

This is to thank those who were so kind and helpful in giving very useful information and explaination regarding the letter from a possible volunteer. I explained that I had consulted some experienced friends (hope you don't mind the liberty taken here). I will paste what she wrote in response to each of your replies that I sent her (no addresses or names attached - they weren't necessary). You folks are great, and I learned a lot more as well. Rita - Oconto County Thank you for getting such a response! I was kind of surprised at some of the answers.... I know its a crazy idea and a LOT of work. I will have to check UWO's hours for that week, but I'm sure the LDS can get the films too. (I even went out on Ebay and was bidding on a fiche/film machine - it went for $60....) I'll keep in touch and let you know what I decide to do! Thanks again! Kathy

--part1_28.225cfea.25e48d16_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit THE ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER - Contains the current USGenWeb Archives Submissions in the last week. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsletter February 14, 2000 issue http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsletter/2000/feb/feb14.htm Wisconsin is prominently featured in the above edition! Thanks to all of you that submit your resources! Tina --part1_28.225cfea.25e48d16_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: TVick65536@aol.com From: TVick65536@aol.com Full-name: TVick65536 Message-ID: <39.195c1b6.25e48bcf@aol.com> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 20:03:11 EST Subject: Fwd: [ARCHIVES-L] THE ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER, February 14, 2000 To: WIGenWebProject@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="part2_28.225cfea.25e48bcf_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 44 --part2_28.225cfea.25e48bcf_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part2_28.225cfea.25e48bcf_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <ARCHIVES-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-za04.mx.aol.com (rly-za04.mail.aol.com [172.31.36.100]) by air-za05.mail.aol.com (v67_b1.24) with ESMTP; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 20:00:26 -0500 Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by rly-za04.mx.aol.com (v67_b1.24) with ESMTP; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 20:00:14 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA25046; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 15:43:36 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 15:43:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <0cf901bf7d8e$510e8f80$0300a8c0@local.net> From: "Maggie Stewart" <maggieohio@columbus.rr.com> Old-To: "Archives-L" <ARCHIVES-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 18:41:18 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Subject: [ARCHIVES-L] THE ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER, February 14, 2000 Resent-Message-ID: <5basMD.A.fFG.i8xs4@bl-14.rootsweb.com> To: ARCHIVES-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: ARCHIVES-L@rootsweb.com Reply-To: ARCHIVES-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <ARCHIVES-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/4436 X-Loop: ARCHIVES-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: ARCHIVES-L-request@rootsweb.com THE ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER - Contains the current USGenWeb Archives Submissions in the last week. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsletter February 14, 2000 issue http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsletter/2000/feb/feb14.htm [NOTE: For those without browser access we have USGW-ARCHIVES-ANNOUNCE is a read-only mailing list for weekly announcements of new updates and submissions to the USGenWeb Archives. To subscribe send the following as the only text in the body of a message that says SUBSCRIBE to: usgw-archives-announce-l-request@rootsweb.com] Submissions should go to arc_rwr@yahoo.com Sorry this is late but I was out of town for the week, Maggie --part2_28.225cfea.25e48bcf_boundary-- --part1_28.225cfea.25e48d16_boundary--