Hello Cathey researchers--and welcome to our new list members who have
chosen to join us (we now number 35 researchers on the list with new
members joining almost every day)! A special thanks goes to Marty Grant
for getting the word out so quickly!
We have a new resource available to us for our research on the
Cathey family--GenConnect Boards. We now have message boards available
for Cathey queries, obituaries, deeds, biographies, Bible records,
pensions, and wills (the Rootsweb people plan to add more board types
later, but for now this is it). The addresses for each of these boards,
in addition to the general index for all surnames boards on GenConnect,
appear at the bottom of this message.
You may have already encountered a GenConnect Board through the various
county pages on the US GenWeb Project. These are the same message
boards we have available to us know--only dealing with the Catheys.
Also, these Genconnect Boards (which are part of Rootsweb) are similar
to the GenForum boards; however, from what I see on the Listowners List
and the GenConnect Board List, there are search options and other
features not available on GenForum. For instance, there is a Global
Search, where you can be in one Cathey board (for instance, Queries) and
search for a name (like Rowan) and it will search *all* GenConnect
boards for that string of characters (thus you could also do surname
searches, etc.)
From other list and board owners, I've gathered that oftentimes
researchers won't join lists, but they will surf in to message boards.
Also, this will help us put commonly asked information in one place.
Also, a note here to Marty Grant: Since I don't have a web page
and you have extensive Cathey information on yours, I would like to
place your web page as the link that appears on all our Cathey boards,
if this is agreeable with you!
Right now all our boards are empty,
Also, the GenConnect folks have asked the board owners not to subscribe
the boards to the list; however, for each board you can personally
subscribe if you wish to receive notification of every new post that is
entered.
A challenge that I have for each of you:
How about posting at least one thing on a Cathey board about your Cathey
ancestor(s) of interest? Also, please remember to cite sources on
biographies, deeds, etc.
I eagerly await your input on how we can use the GenConnect Boards with
our Cathey research--and I look forward to your Cathey posts on the
boards (as well as continuing our list discussions!)
The links to the Cathey boards appear after my signature. (Also, please
note that I have a new home email address.)
Donna Sarchet
Plainview, TX
Cathey List & GenConnect Boards Manager
<sarchet(a)mail.wbu.edu> office address (permanent)
<sarchet(a)texasonline.net> new home address
P.S. We've just been notified that all GenConnect Boards will be down
Saturday night and part of Sunday. They are moving the boards to a
"bigger box" so that access time will be even quicker.
Link to Index Page for All Surname Boards:
http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/indx/FamAssoc.html
Link to Cathey Queries Board:
http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Cathey
Link to Cathey Bible Records Board:
http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/CatheyBibl
Link to Cathey Biographies Board:
http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/CatheyBios
Link to Cathey Deeds Board:
http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/CatheyDeed
Link to Cathey Obituaries Board:
http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/CatheyObits
Link to Cathey Pensions Board:
http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/CatheyPens
Link to Cathey Wills Board:
http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/CatheyWill