It has been a while since the last roll call. Would each of you please respond, preferably here on this list? Also if any of you have changed snail mail addresses or phone numbers please send the updates to me privately. Les

WVGenWeb volunteers, Please welcome the new CC for Wood County WVGenWeb, Kathie Harrison <NelliBlu28@aol.com>. I would also like to thank Rhonda Smith for the work that she did on the county page over the years. Les

Gracie Stover Raleigh County, WV http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvraleig/ West Virginia Coal Mining http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvcoal/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lesley Shockey" <LShockey@citynet.net> To: <WVGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 2:46 PM Subject: [WVGEN] WVGenWeb CC volunteers > It has been a while since the last roll call. Would each of you > please respond, preferably here on this list? > > Also if any of you have changed snail mail addresses or phone numbers > please send the updates to me privately. > > Les > > > ==== WVGEN Mailing List ==== > > >

Hi Les, Boone and Ohio checking in!! Peggy At 02:46 PM 10/26/2005, Lesley Shockey wrote: >It has been a while since the last roll call. Would each of you >please respond, preferably here on this list? > >Also if any of you have changed snail mail addresses or phone >numbers please send the updates to me privately. > >Les > > >==== WVGEN Mailing List ==== >

Marilyn Gouge No changes~ Berkeley http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvberkel/ Lincoln http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvlincol/ Wayne http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvwayne/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lesley Shockey" <LShockey@citynet.net> To: <WVGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 12:46 PM Subject: [WVGEN] WVGenWeb CC volunteers > It has been a while since the last roll call. Would each of you > please respond, preferably here on this list? > > Also if any of you have changed snail mail addresses or phone numbers > please send the updates to me privately. > > Les > > > ==== WVGEN Mailing List ==== > >

Hello from Margaret Lew -- BARBOUR and HARDY counties No change in any of my contact info. Date forwarded: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:47:56 -0600 Date sent: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:46:22 -0400 From: Lesley Shockey <LShockey@citynet.net> To: WVGEN-L@rootsweb.com Forwarded by: WVGEN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [WVGEN] WVGenWeb CC volunteers > It has been a while since the last roll call. Would each of you > please respond, preferably here on this list? > > Also if any of you have changed snail mail addresses or phone numbers > please send the updates to me privately. > > Les > > > ==== WVGEN Mailing List ==== > >

Hello WVGenWeb volunteers, I am needing to find a new CC for the following three counties: Nicholas Taylor Wood I checked my CC Guide Volunteer Submission and do have two old submissions for Wood County which I am in the process of contacting. If you have an interest in any of the above county pages, please let me know. Les

WV / Lincoln / 1900 (Partial) Dist/Twp/City ED: 48, Washington District Transcribed by Dottie Henderson Proofread by not yet http://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/wv/lincoln/1900/ ed48- (2 files) 15 index files _ed-info

**Please forward to all appropriate Project lists.** USGenWeb SPECIAL PROJECT REPRESENTATIVE SPECIAL ELECTION - 2005 Voting will begin October 25, 2005 (12:01 am) and will end November 8, 2005 (11:59 pm) CST. Registered Special Project USGenWeb members as defined in the USGenWeb Project Bylaws and the Election Committee Procedures are eligible to vote. Passwords will be mailed on Monday, October 24, 2005. On the Election Committee Current EC Members & Regions page http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/current.html you will find a list of the regions and states within each region. Please refer to above page, before contacting the EC with questions. Information about the candidates can be found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/sp-election-2005/sp-candidates-index.html Tina Vickery, Chair USGenWeb Project Election Committee http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/sp-election-2005/

Hi all WV county coordinators, I love that our state is one of the first states to start making older "vital research records" (birth, death, and marriage records) available for genealogy researchers through the West Virginia Division of Culture and History. http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_select.aspx They don't have birth and marriage records available yet for my county, but they do have death records for all counties (with limited years). While going through the death records doing my own research, I wondered if we should just link to the site from our WVGenWeb counties, or go the extra step and start adding links to individual names on our existing web-pages such as cemetery lists. Soooo, I thought I'd try doing several cemetery lists to see if this would be an extra benefit to our researchers. I've added links on the following two cemetery lists so far: http://www.pa-roots.org/~marion/cemetery/ammons.html http://www.pa-roots.org/~marion/cemetery/icecemetery.html Some of the names don't quite match up like when a nickname was used on one or the other, so I've been checking birthdates and other data on the certificates to make sure I'm matching the correct certificate to the name. Let me know if you feel this will be an added benefit for our West Virginia researchers. Connie Burkett Marion, WVGenWeb

***Please forward to all appropriate Project list*** To all USGenWeb Project members: The USGenWeb Election Committee is looking for volunteers who would like to serve on the committee. The "job" includes developing a working relationship with Project members, SCs, and/or Special Project personnel to maintain current Project membership and registered lists, and to assist in all polls and elections, especially during the months of June and July when the EC hosts the USGenWeb Project's Annual Election. Volunteers will have the satisfaction of joining an excellent team to handle a difficult and important responsibility. The following seats are currently vacant or will be available January 1, 2006. Currently vacant: Northwest/Plains Region. One Year Replacement Term ending 31 December 2006. Southeast/Mid-Atlantic Region. Two year term expiring December 31, 2007, will be available January 2006. Special Projects. One Year Replacement Term ending 31 December 2006. Currently vacant. Special Projects. Two year term expiring December 31, 2007, will be available January 2006. --- Seats Available January 1, 2006: Northeast/North Central Region. Two year term expiring December 31, 2007, will be available January 2006. Northwest/Plains Region. Two year term expiring December 31, 2007, will be available January 2006. Southwest/South Central Region. Two year term ending 31 December 2005. Incumbent eligible to serve a full two year term. --- NOTE: You do *not* have to be a member in any of the above regions or projects to be eligible to serve in a particular seat. Final determination of placement will be made by the EC. Any member of the USGW Project who is eligible to register to vote is eligible for membership in the EC, the exception being that no Advisory Board member may serve as a working member of the EC. An EC member who is elected to national office may continue to serve on the EC until seated on the AB. Members do not have to be registered to serve. The EC is looking for team players who will check and respond to mail daily, and recognize the confidentiality aspects of the work. This is a busy but harmonious committee, and the work is very rewarding! If you are interested in volunteering, please send a note to: Tina Vickery tsvickery@adelphia.net with the subject line, "Volunteer EC" by October 29, 2005. Please include a brief description of your current USGW participation, including URLs of any sites you maintain, plus any other information you would like the EC to have. Final selection and placement will be made by the EC and presented to the Advisory Board for confirmation. More information about the EC is available: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/ Thank you for your time, and please consider volunteering! Tina Vickery Chair, USGenWeb Elections Committee http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/

Attn County Coordinators! I am working to provide a new resource to County Coordinators everywhere. Google has made their online maps available for anyone to use and customize to show whatever and wherever they want. However, the process for doing it is a bit too tough for non-programmers. I am creating an online system that will allow CC's to create a customized map for their sites without having to know how to program. Webmasters will use the wizard to create three files to their sites. Once these files are uploaded, the county map is ready to use. The mapmaker is ALMOST ready to use. Several CCs in Georgia have assisted me in basic testing. At this point, I need a wider group of testers. I need testers of all types and abilities, but am especially interested in testers who are programmers (PHP and Javascript), and people who are good HTML coders but can test the files in Frontpage. Please do not be scared off if you are a beginner: I need your help just as much! (And if you can help me with a "pretty" design for the site, let me know... I can program, but I'm not the most artistic guy in the world! Please reply to me directly at fergusonjason@gmail.com if you can help. Once I get your message, I will forward you the address of the mapmaker and subscribe you to the development mailing list. (I don't want the address to get out until after we are sure there are no bugs in the system). Thanks in advance, and have a great day. (State Coordinators: could you please forward this request to your state lists so your CCs can volunteer? Thanks!). Jason

WEST VIRGINIA 1910 Marshall County, ED 78 http://www.rootsweb.com/~cenfiles/wv/marshall/1910/ed078/ Abstracted by Ron Heise Second Transcriber Needed [For more information on Marshall County, West Virginia, Please visit the Marshall County WVGenWeb page at http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvmarsha/marsh.htm]

I need a favor at WVa Archives -- if someone's going soonish. A few copies off a roll of microfilm that doesn't circulate and WV-Archive is the only known source. Happy to pre-pay or reimburse copy costs and even throw in a Co-cola. Apply within, as the signs say. Cheryl

Hello WV CCs, I have forgotten which ones of you know how to set up or troubleshoot MailMerge. The new CCs for Ritchie County, Suzanne Hadley <hadsuz@zoominternet.net> and Jim Jones <jjpjj@aol.com>, have found that the MailMerge used on the Ritchie County WVGenWeb page is broken and need help finding the problem and getting it fixed. Les

The USGenWeb Newsletter committee is in need of volunteers. If you would like to be involved in the Project's monthly newsletter please contact Sharon Rhodes sharon@marshallnet.com for further details. Linda Haas Davenport NC USGenWeb Project

WV / Lincoln / 1900 (Partial) Dist/Twp/City ED: 46 Sheridan District Transcribed by Dottie Henderson Proofread by not yet http://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/wv/lincoln/1900/ ed46- (4 files) 14 index files _partial.txt

Voting has started on this motion without time to get the word out to Project members. If you have feelings on the following matter, please contact your AB Reps as soon as possible. Les Fellow State Coordinators, Tonight, I sent the following message to each of my Advisory Board representatives: ====================================== As my Advisory Board representatives, I'd like you to know that I object most strenuously to Teresa Lindquist being restored to Member in Good Standing status. Through her online writings, she has done much damage to The USGenWeb Project, holding it and many of its members up to public ridicule and scorn. Her innuendos, half-truths and outright lies have caused many good volunteers to leave this project, or steer clear of it altogether. Others have retreated away from active participation in anything but their own little corner of the project to avoid becoming a target of her "poison pen". There is no indication that she has "mended her ways", or that she intends to do anything other than continue this damaging behavior. I fail to see any wisdom in restoring Good Standing status to someone whose actions continue to harm our organization. I respectfully ask you to vote NO on motion 05-19. Shari Handley MDGenWeb State Coordinator DEGenWeb State Coordinator Delaware USGenWeb Archives File Manager Somerset County, MDGenWeb CC Wicomico County, MDGenWeb CC Worcester County, MDGenWeb CC Sussex County, DEGenWeb CC ====================================== I urge you to join me in contacting your AB reps to ask for a NO vote on 05-19. You can find their email addresses at http://www.usgenweb.org/about/advisoryboard.shtml. Thank you, Shari Handley -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.3/107 - Release Date: 9/20/2005

**Please post to all appropriate USGenWeb Project lists** The Election Committee has been directed by the Advisory Board to conduct a Special Election to fill the seat of Special Projects Representative. Special Project Representative. Two year term ending - 8/31/2007. Nomination Period: Thursday, September 14, 2005 12:01 AM CST - Thursday, September 21, 2005 11:59 PM CST Any USGenWeb Project member may nominate someone for any available position for which the nominee is qualified. Members may nominate themselves. Nominator names are confidential. Only registered USGenWeb Project Special Project members will be eligible to vote in this election. The date of the election will be announced. https://rmweb.secure.indiana.edu/USGenWeb/SpecialElectionNomination.cfm Tina S. Vickery, Chair USGenWeb Project Election Committee http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/sp-election-2005/ cc: Linda Haas Davenport for posting to BOARD-L. Linda Haas Davenport for posting to USGENWEB-DISCUSS-L.

The following does a much better job of explaining or answering the various questions that have been sent to be regarding the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS). Les STATE COORDINATORS AND REGIONAL LIST ADMINS: Please feel free to forward onto your lists if you feel it is right to do so. Dear Fellow USGenWeb Members: Please note that this message is written in my capacity as a member of USGenWeb, not as the Parliamentarian for the Advisory Board. There have been several misconceptions about the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS), since the announcement that USGenWeb had submitted its membership application to the society. While I do not claim to be an "expert" on FGS, I do know quite a few of the board members on a personal level, and as you know am involved with their 2006 National Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. The first misconception that needs to be corrected is that FGS *needs* us, this is completely untrue. The Federation serves to connect the genealogical community (professional, volunteer, etc.) through the thousands of genealogical societies in the United States. While attending the FGS 2005 Conference, I (and other USGenWeb members) discussed with FGS Officers about USGenWeb joining FGS, and we were told that FGS would be happy to welcome USGenWeb as a member society. Because we were at the conference, the rate was discounted ($105.00 rather than $115.00), and we could immediately begin the process of becoming a part of FGS. A membership application was filled out, and contrary to what has earlier been said, that application does not need to be "approved" by their board. The membership was a donation and a gift to USGenWeb by one of its members in attempts to solidify the efforts of USGenWeb within the nationwide genealogical community. FGS is an organization made up of volunteers (as are most genealogical societies throughout the United States). Recently FGS created the Ruth C. Bishop Family History Volunteer Hall of Honor, an award recognizing volunteers from FGS member societies throughout the United States (more information is at http://www.fgs.org/fgs-rbaward.htm). As an FGS member, USGenWeb will be able to nominate its members for their generous contributions to the world of genealogy. As a member of FGS, USGenWeb will receive the "Delegate Digest," which will be sent to the FGS Delegate, and then the FGS Delegate (who does NOT become a member of the FGS Board) disseminates the information to USGenWeb. We don't have to put their logo on our pages, or submit a report to them. One of the many benefits is also the FGS Forum subscription, which is sent to the FGS Delegate for USGenWeb, and most likely the President (in our case the National Coordinator). The FGS Forum will provide information helping USGenWeb to grow as an organization and become "bigger and better," enabling us to serve genealogists in a much easier manner. The FGS Delegate is charged with sharing this information with USGenWeb members. While some may not agree with the "process" by which USGenWeb joined FGS, the fact is that becoming a member of FGS signifies to the genealogical community that USGenWeb wants to be a part of the "genealogy world." Our efforts with the 2006 Boston Conference, the track we have put together, and the various events we will be holding during the week will only further help to enhance the reputation of USGenWeb as a resource for "free genealogy." I plead with members of the USGenWeb Advisory Board to accept the donation of FGS Membership (recognizing that the process of joining was not a process that should be repeated), and give our membership in FGS a chance! Membership within the Federation is a good thing for the future of USGenWeb. I invite any AB members, or my fellow project members who have questions regarding FGS and USGenWeb's membership to e-mail me at Josh@DJoshuaTaylor.com, I would be happy to do my best to give you an answer. Sincerely, D. Joshua Taylor