Not an easy one!!! I do think that I would email the CC and ask if all was well. Ya never know.... Maybe they need help. A little bit of help from each of us, whether it be material or support might pull a site back together. If its disinterest - then so be it - we move on. Have to agree with those saying it is very hard to get information from a distance. I don't live in WI and finding info is real difficult. My Waushara and Bayfield are doing extremely well, Waukesha is fair to middling, but am having a problem with finding for Ashland County.. I guess I had the same problem with Bayfield for about a year or maybe a little longer and then all of a sudden we whet ballistic. <g> So, I have HIGH HOPES for Ashland!! In the mean time I do with what I can...... As Ashland is not disinterest on my part - I'm thinking that others are experiencing the same problems. EXCEPT of course you lucky people who live in Wisconsin. <g> Jan Ashland, Bayfield, Waukesha and Waushara Visit Jansdigs for History & Genealogy - New & Under Construction http://www.jansdigs.com/ Check Out Internet Pathways in History http://www.ipih.org/

I think regardless of political views or personalities, most of us want our pages to be the best they can be. This subject didn't really stem from a plethora of time to "police" websites, but rather complaints from visitors about non-responsive CCs and pages wallowing in stagnancy when offers are made to include information. Menominee comes to mind as a site where I have added nothing since I updated it the first time, although I don't think anyone has complained. I have two counties in California also that are hopelessly stagnant, and I live here. I simply have too much to do. (I did offer them for adoption but didn't get any takers.) I have actually found it easier to get stuff from Wisconsin than I have here in my own state. It's cheaper, too because people in CA aren't interested in old WI yearbooks, gazatteers and histories (theoretically). 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. I guess it is possible that a CCs feelings might get hurt if their county was listed, but just because someone wants to adopt a county doesn't mean a CC is doing a bad job, and the person wanting to adopt might be a wonderful asset to the county as an assistant, or just a contributor. Kelly

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