Kathy, I agree too that the differences could have been resolved. I hoped Tina would have let Jan come back. Sounds like it was more of a personal difference that had nothing to do with the project itself. As a contributor to Jan Cortez's website though, I started contributing to her website on AHGP before Winnebago Rootsweb even had one to speak of. I had all my cemetery info to share with the world and didn't know where to go with it until I met up with Jan. Through her, from the beginning, my donations to the genealogy world has been made possible. Through my efforts and Jan's, I choose to stay with Jan! In response to an earlier response about Ancestry taking over Rootsweb and making it a pay site? One never knows what can happen in today's computer world. Have you visited LDS lately? Searching through the LDS's 1880 Census, there is a link to view the image on Ancestry for a fee.....Ancestry is getting their hands into a lot of the free websites and they could all be in danger of belonging to Ancestry soon! You know what they say about the price being right....! One thing I am pretty sure of is that if this ever happens to any server that Jan has our Winnebago info on....she will move our info to guarantee it's remains on a free access website to all of us! I will donate to the cause if necessary if she has to buy her own domain! JAN! Keep up the great work! I am with you all the way! Regards, Janet Eiler "The Cemerery Lady" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy Grace" <kgrace@vbe.com> To: <WIWINNEB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 5:39 PM Subject: [WIWinneb'go] Winnebago County WIGenWeb Project site > This is so sad. Once again researchers are thwarted because of > Differences of opinion. It is sad that people would pull their material > from the > WIGenWeb pages since the USGenWeb project was meant to be the place that > researchers could depend on for the best information. Can't we do some > compromising here? I would think that material had been submitted to > the > Winnebago page of the WIGenWeb project because of the project itself, > not > because of who was maintaining the web page at any particular time. If > Jan had never had anything to do with the web page, would submitters not > still > have submitted their information? Is it fair to the project to pull > information because of personality conflicts? I have worked with both > Tina > and Jan and have found them both extremely helpful and friendly. I > believe this is exactly the type of thing that happened with the > USGenWeb census > projects and the reason that there are now 2 projects competing against > each other instead of working together. As a researcher myself, I know > that a > split like this is helpful to no one and only serves to alienate people. > Please think of what is happening to the project instead of personal > feelings. > > Kathy Grace > Regional Coordinator > State Coordinator for AZ, CO, KS, SD, WI, WY > US GenWeb Census Project > > > > > > > ==== WIWINNEB Mailing List ==== > ~~ SUBJECT LINES ~~ > Think about it!! A picture's worth 1000 words; a Subject Line more! > The 4 W's: Who? What? When? and Where? Don't leave home without 'em! > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >