Hi everyone, FROM A FELLOW GENEALOGIST.. LET'S PULL TOGETHER AND HELP HER WIN.. She has already won 2 rounds and going for the final win~! I'm sorry to have to do this, but I need to reach a lot of people today so I'm mass mailing this message. Your email addresses have been BCC'd so nobody will know your email addy .... My site, Bower Family Homestead, at <bowercommunity.com/homestead> has entered the third (and thank goodness, final) phase of a site fight. It started at midnight this morning and will run until Saturday. Although there are a total of 13 sites in the fight, we're only directly competing against three others. Voting for ourselves is tomorrow, December 6th. These votes consist of half the Homestead's score. Taking the top number of votes will garner us 10 points. The judges take on the rest of the final score. To the point of this message ~~ will you visit my site today and vote? Will you encourage your friends, coworkers and relatives to do the same? This voting is critical to since these votes consist of half the Homestead's score. Taking the top number of votes will garner us 10 points. The judges' ratings in seven scoring areas take on the rest of the final total. Bringing in the full 10 points will save our final score if the judges hit us too badly on one or more of those areas. It's the final score that will determine our placement in the standings. Here are the voting guidelines I've been given. You'll want to read all of them to make sure your vote gets counted: 1.) **IMPORTANT ~~ IMPORTANT ** _Please_ DO NOT cast any votes until Wednesday 12:01 a.m. U.S. EST. Voting stops at 11:59 U.S. EST. Anything before or after those hours WILL NOT COUNT. 2.) On the voting page you'll fill out a short form. Below that form is a counter. You'll need the counter number (that shows below the form) when completing the form. Also, one of the site fight owners had an emergency in his family this past weekend. He hasn't returned home yet (as of this message) so the voting page may not be updated with this competition's sites. Don't be concerned if you don't see the Bower Family Homestead listed on the page. YOU WILL HAVE TO WRITE IN THE VOTE... the webowner is still out of town... Go ahead and place your vote for the Bower Family Homestead current counter number showing on the page and your full email address. The promoters will still get it. 3.) You can vote from any server, so if you also use a web-based email [Hotmail, Netscape, etc.] please be sure to vote for the Homestead from that email addy as well -- even the ones you use at work [if you can, that is]. Please be sure to hit REFRESH (or reset) to get a new counter number for each screen name or your votes will not count. 4.) AOL users can only vote one time per screen name [I have no reason why; that's just what the rules say]. 5.) The voting page is at <http://members.aol.com/whopbof2/vote.html>. I've set a banner up at the Homestead's front page just in case any surfers want to vote for us or you want to spring to the WHOPBOF voting page from there. 6.) There is an alternative way to vote in case the submit button does not work when voting. You'll find instructions near the bottom of the vote page to how to do this should you get errors when trying to submit a vote. 7.) Please get your friends, relatives and coworkers who have email addresses to vote for us as well! If they have multiple email addresses, they can vote multiple times as long as they remember to REFRESH THE PAGE to get a new counter number. I'll be online all day today if any of you have any questions. This voting business is important (though not quite as important as the vote in Florida, mind you! :) ) or I wouldn't be bothering you. Colleen Brenda K. Wolfgram Moore [email protected] http://members.aol.com/fiddlerben/gtindex.html surnames: Wolfgram, Kratochvil, Secor/Sicard, Jacques, Leguerre, Vallee and and Brenda K. Wolfgram Moore [email protected] http://members.aol.com/fiddlerben/gtindex.html surnames: Wolfgram, Kratochvil, Secor/Sicard, Jacques, Leguerre, Vallee and and