We have recently uploaded 2.5 megs of "Men of Progress" biographies to the WI Archives. This is well over 500 bios from all over the state: ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/biographies/ Kelly Kelly Jensen-Mullins BaptistRoots: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~baptist/index.html U.S. Digital Map Library: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/maps/

Hi, Thanks to all for coming and enjoying our weekly chats. Hope to see you all tonight. Among the topics discussed tonight will be counters. 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

Paula, Hey, don't disparage yourself (yes I am an Ally McBeal fan). The counter html can be tricky. If you want to see one that works, try this page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwood/ Here is the source code for THAT look... <p align="center"><font color="#000000" size="3"><strong>Number of browsers since 20 Mar 97 is: <img src="http://counter.rootsweb.com//cgi-bin/Count.cgi?trgb=ffffff&ft=0&df=wiwood001&dd=E"> </p> You can put it anywhere on your page, and that is where it will be. If you want it as the last thing, then put it right before: </body></html> To make this one work, go to http://counter.rootsweb.com/Counter.html Click on create a counter. you will make up a counter name. I use a system with my wiwood and a number after it... in the example above, my counter name is: wiwood001 To modify the one above for your page, first change the date to the date you started the page or added the counter, remove wiwood001 and insert your counter's name. Walla, it is done. Hope that helped and if not, email me direct and I'll walk you through the questions. The way this week is going, I doubt I will get home intime for the chat... R/S MAK > Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 15:37:59 CST > From: "Paula Vaughan" <pajolova@hotmail.com> > To: WIGEN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [WIGEN-L] HIT COUNTERS > > Could we maybe discuss hit counters on Wednesday night? Yes, it's me the > beginner with all those questions again. > > Have played around trying to get one set up but just don't get where to put > the information that I get from Rootsweb to put on my html page. > > Paula > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > ===== ===== 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

Could we maybe discuss hit counters on Wednesday night? Yes, it's me the beginner with all those questions again. Have played around trying to get one set up but just don't get where to put the information that I get from Rootsweb to put on my html page. Paula ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Here is the whole thing in one convienent place, the Site Search and the Email Notification. http://www.netmind.com/html/wmwizard.html

HERE! HERE! Debbie I too have been meeting with the group via chat on Wednesday nights and it is most helpful. I agree not only getting to know the other people working with the WIGenWeb Project, they are most helpful. I am a beginner with the website and just took over Waupaca County in November and everyone has really helped out. Without the help I wouldn't have been able to do it. Hope more of you stop in on Wednesday nights at 9 p.m. EST Paula ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

For Melissa, at the bottom of my page http://www.usgennet.org/~ahwiport/wi-links.html is the code for people who want to sign up if your page changes, they will get an automatic notification. It is free and you just copy paste it to your pages. For the password, archives thing. When you go into your rootsweb account, if you have one, you can go right to the archives directory... I asked why the CC for the county and the Archives couldn't be the same passcode, wouldn't that make sense? I was told some of the other state SCs do that, but our SC had elected to have different codes in case it was a different person... Having different codes is a pain but small compared to having them changed without notification... I've been doing this now for three years, and would love to have the passwords match the county site they belong to... This way, when you are making your corrections, you just change directories and FTP, instead of going out of one and getting back on, and having it time out... The only downside is if their site isn't on rootsweb, but then it shouldn't matter either. Any thoughts on that? R/S MAK --- WIGEN-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote:> > > ===== ===== 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

Hi: Just wanted to let everyone know what a boon the Wednesday night chat has been to me as a CC. Besides the ability to get to know other CC's and our SC and ASC on a more personal basis, there is the opportunity to ask many questions about the organization itself and what it's goals are. It is a place to exchange ideas, ask for help, whatever is on your mind. I hope to see more of us take this opportunity to get to know one another. The WIGenWeb Project can be as much as we want to make of it and I for one would like to get to know more of you. Many CC's are a wealth of information regarding this organization, Wisconsin and genealogy and I hope we can all share that expertise. Hope to see you all there next Wednesday! Debbie Barrett Pierce County, WI CC

Absolutely not!!!

I have wondered about what would happen to my pages if I died. ( I am going on an extended car trip and you never know!) My sister will notify the SC if something happens to me, and will arrange for all my research materials to go to the new CC. By the way, I am still waiting for the new passwords for the archive system. Shelley e-mail: sdgreen715@aol.com (Put Shelley in the subject line) Web pages: Marathon County WI - http://www.rootsweb.com/~wimarath Lincoln County WI - http://www.rootsweb.com/~wilincol Personal - http://members.aol.com/sdgreen715/index.html Mailing Lists: WIMARATH-L and WILINCOL-L

At 08:56 PM 2/2/00 EST, MKnauft@aol.com wrote: >JT wrote: > >>> I am asking this "would it be a good or bad idea to ask all CCs to send >>> their password to their county site along with the FTP url to the SC >(Tina) >>> and let her put them in a text file, (That would be *UNACCESSABLE* by >>> anyone other then the SC or ASCs ? > >Hi all, > >I've hosted Dane Co. since the beginning, so have never had to take over >for another previous CC. I learned early on in WIGenWeb, when helping >new CCs get their pages up, that Rootsweb had issued us all similar >passwords, i.e. that followed the same pattern. I won't mention it here. > When a CC change occurs, and the page is hosted on RW, does RW issue a >new password? This would make sense. I don't believe I can actually >change my password, so it would have to come from them. Yes, RW issues a new password - that is very random - ie hard to remember. I've had to create a spreadsheet for all the passwords I have - and still don't have them all down. >On the password list topic, rather than requiring the SC to "pick up the >slack" so-to-speak when a CC disappears, why not have a "Lieutenant CC" >instead. Perhaps a neighboring county CC could agree to make necessary >updates if something takes you away from your site (hopefully not >permanently!). Some folks are very 'possessive' of 'their' county and like to work alone <ducking> while others like working as a team. The only problem I see regarding JTs proposal is for sites not hosted on Rootsweb - that are on folks personal AOL or Geocities or whatever server accounts - which I believe would fall more into Dawn's definition of someone to assist the CC. Tim - Richland County CC Crawford County co-CC

At 07:40 PM 2/2/00 EST, WIGenWebProject@aol.com wrote: Do any of us get a vacation?? <g>. Yes. This coming weekend in fact. Taking my wife to meet with 3 other family couples for a weekend in Birmingham, AL. Tim

For those of you who get Ancestry's daily newsletter, please excuse the duplication. I found the county descriptions fascinating, especially since they're written before 1856! Marsha ___________________________________________________________________ WISCONSIN HANDBOOK, 1856 Given territorial status in 1836 and granted statehood in 1848, Wisconsin grew in population from 300,000 to 775,000 in just the first ten years as a state. This database is a reprint of a handbook for the state originally published in 1856. It provides descriptions of the public lands, educational opportunities, commercial statistics, and counties in that year. It also includes information regarding the 1855 state census and a comparison with it and the 1850 federal census. For researchers of Wisconsin ancestors, this database can illuminate historical and geographic aspects of the area not commonly known. Bibliography: Library of Congress. "Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910." [Database online] Washington: Library of Congress, 1999. Chapman, S. Handbook of Wisconsin. Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, 1856. To search this database, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/4293.htm ____________________________________________________________________

Oh Tina! I didn't mean you personally, I meant in general. I've seen some relationships in the USGenWeb/RootsWeb/USGenWeb.com/AHLN/etc. pantheon go from enthusiastic to embittered very quickly & unexpectedly. I trust that, in the main, the vast majority of people in this Project would behave honorably. But sometimes, doodoo occurs. Marsha WIGenWebProject@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 2/2/00 7:12:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, mwilcox@lnd.com > writes: > > > I don't think this is a bad idea, but I do have some reservations: > > > > Con: What if an SC or ASC leaves under "bad odor"? S/he has all the > > passwords! > > True.. This is a matter of trust. I appreciate that, and will respect that > the sharing of passwords is done with that thought in mind, and can only say > that if that event happens.. the passwords will be passed along to incoming > SC, and/or ASC. > > > Pro: If somebody is out of it temporarily (vacation, illness, family > > emergency), this allows an SC/ASC to fill in until the problem is over. > > I can only imagine that this would be used with catastrophic illness or > family emergency. Do any of us get a vacation?? <g>. > > Tina.

Hello everyone, I have a question that has been going around in my head since August of 99 when I became a CC of Rock county. Now this may be a wrong idea completely and may be way off base, but when CJ and I took over Rock county it was on another server, yet when the Crawford site was having trouble it was on RW, both of them were "off limits" so to speak to any of the SCs or ASCs, due to the fact that the previous CC had not forwarded the password to the site. I am asking this "would it be a good or bad idea to ask all CCs to send their password to their county site along with the FTP url to the SC (Tina) and let her put them in a text file, (That would be *UNACCESSABLE* by anyone other then the SC or ASCs ? I am asking this, because to me personally, it would help out a lot for future CCs to be able to go in and have ready access to the sites, the SC or ASC would just send them the password when they approve them for CC. I believe others may have had the same trouble with the counties they took over as I mentioned above, and this would eliminate the problem. Also if a site was not attended to for "say 3 months" due to health, computer or other problems, the SC or ASC could make minor updates, of course after exhausting the possibility to make contacts with the current CC. :-) Let me know what you as other CCs think on this idea, please. I look forward to hearing from all CCs thru the list. Thank you, Dr. JT

I was wondering if any of the CC's had a thing on their page where someone could be notified by email every time the pages were updated. I've seen them on the web before (who knows where). I'm looking for something like this and I was wondering a few things. 1- Is is automatic, or is it some sort of mailing list type deal that I have to maintain and send a message myself to everyone. 2- Say I updated my page more than once a day. (sometimes I'm uploading numerous times to fix little things like alignment or pics that decide not to show up.) I wouldn't want these people to get 20 notifications a day. : ) 3- If it's something that is a good thing, where can I get it? Thanks, Melissa ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

DrJT, I don't think this is a bad idea, but I do have some reservations: Con: What if an SC or ASC leaves under "bad odor"? S/he has all the passwords! Con: It is easy enough to get a new password set up if you need to take over pages. I had to do that with Iron Co. Only took a day or 2. Pro: If somebody is out of it temporarily (vacation, illness, family emergency), this allows an SC/ASC to fill in until the problem is over. Pro: If a CC dies (sorry, got to mention it), an SC/ASC can take over their pages until a replacement can be found. (Everybody *has* "willed" their pages to USGenWeb/WIGenWeb, right? Ooops!) My .02 Marsha DrJT wrote: > > Hello everyone, > I have a question that has been going around in my head since August of 99 > when I became a CC of Rock county. > Now this may be a wrong idea completely and may be way off base, but when > CJ and I took over Rock county it was on another server, yet when the > Crawford site was having trouble it was on RW, both of them were "off > limits" so to speak to any of the SCs or ASCs, due to the fact that the > previous CC had not forwarded the password to the site. > I am asking this "would it be a good or bad idea to ask all CCs to send > their password to their county site along with the FTP url to the SC (Tina) > and let her put them in a text file, (That would be *UNACCESSABLE* by anyone > other then the SC or ASCs ? > I am asking this, because to me personally, it would help out a lot for > future CCs to be able to go in and have ready access to the sites, the SC or > ASC would just send them the password when they approve them for CC. > I believe others may have had the same trouble with the counties they took > over as I mentioned above, and this would eliminate the problem. > Also if a site was not attended to for "say 3 months" due to health, > computer or other problems, the SC or ASC could make minor updates, of > course after exhausting the possibility to make contacts with the current > CC. :-) > > Let me know what you as other CCs think on this idea, please. I look > forward to hearing from all CCs thru the list. > > Thank you, > Dr. JT

JT wrote: >> I am asking this "would it be a good or bad idea to ask all CCs to send >> their password to their county site along with the FTP url to the SC (Tina) >> and let her put them in a text file, (That would be *UNACCESSABLE* by >> anyone other then the SC or ASCs ? Hi all, I've hosted Dane Co. since the beginning, so have never had to take over for another previous CC. I learned early on in WIGenWeb, when helping new CCs get their pages up, that Rootsweb had issued us all similar passwords, i.e. that followed the same pattern. I won't mention it here. When a CC change occurs, and the page is hosted on RW, does RW issue a new password? This would make sense. I don't believe I can actually change my password, so it would have to come from them. On the password list topic, rather than requiring the SC to "pick up the slack" so-to-speak when a CC disappears, why not have a "Lieutenant CC" instead. Perhaps a neighboring county CC could agree to make necessary updates if something takes you away from your site (hopefully not permanently!). Dawn M. Knauft, CGRS Coordinator, Dane Co. WiGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~widane WiSearch, Professional Genealogical Research http://www.wisearch.net

>I was wondering if any of the CC's had a thing on their page where someone >could be notified by email every time the pages were updated. I've seen >them on the web before (who knows where). I'm looking for something like >this and I was wondering a few things. Hi Melissa, I have one on the top of the Dane Co. WIGenWeb home page--MindIt is the name. Don't know if it is the best one of its type available. A disadvantage to it is that it notifies people even if you make a minor change. This could get annoying to subscribers. I think another one out there is called "FreeFind"? Dawn M. Knauft, CGRS Coordinator, Dane Co. WiGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~widane WiSearch, Professional Genealogical Research http://www.wisearch.net

In a message dated 2/2/00 7:12:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, mwilcox@lnd.com writes: > I don't think this is a bad idea, but I do have some reservations: > > Con: What if an SC or ASC leaves under "bad odor"? S/he has all the > passwords! True.. This is a matter of trust. I appreciate that, and will respect that the sharing of passwords is done with that thought in mind, and can only say that if that event happens.. the passwords will be passed along to incoming SC, and/or ASC. > Pro: If somebody is out of it temporarily (vacation, illness, family > emergency), this allows an SC/ASC to fill in until the problem is over. I can only imagine that this would be used with catastrophic illness or family emergency. Do any of us get a vacation?? <g>. Tina.