Rio Grande, here...
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From: "Gail Kilgore" <gail.kilgore(a)gmail.com>
To: "cogen" <COGEN(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 3:45 AM
Subject: [COGEN] Check-In's
First, I want to thank those of you who are faithful in checking in
monthly. It is greatly appreciated.
Those I need to hear from are:
Cheyenne Co. - Karla Mahlberg who has not checked in the past two months.
Broomfield Co. - Julie Miller
Baca and Rio Blanco - Maggie Stewart
Las Animas - Sandi Barber
Rio Grande - Linda Simpson
Clear Creek - Mike Irwin
Lake Co. - Mike Irwin
Then, I got an email today that left me with a lot of mixed feelings.
I will only send bits and pieces of the email and the person sending it is
not from Colorado.
"There is too much well funded competition out there. We used to be it and
now we are yesterday's news. The crap that USGenWeb did is partially to
blame but it is also a function of being out of date. Volunteers don't
have
the funds to do massive databases."
"Thanks for asking. I don't know anyone [useful] who would be interested.
They are dropping fast - age, illness, etc. We probably have 25% adoptable
at this point."
This left me to thinking today and trying to find replacements for these
counties is becoming impossible. They have moved on with the new
technology. I would like to see a roll call from all states as to what
their vacancy is. I have a lady interested in a county and still trying
to
work it out, had another one interested but didn't know beans about web
pages.
I agree with this person that we are now a lot older than when we started.
Life is playing on our times, there are illnesses and all that goes along
with getting older. I have been trying to bring in young blood new people
to carry on.
I would like to hear your thoughts and thoughts on recruiting, or else I
am
going to have to back up and ask that some of us take on more counties to
get them updated. I can't do them all and Billie has been helping. I am
not asking you to adopt them but to at least work on the main pages of the
sites that are up for adoption.
I am not quite ready to retire from COGenWeb but I may have to take a
leave
of absence and would like Billie to step up to the plate to keep things
rolling.
I really haven't said anything but I am just finishing up radiation for
skin cancer, now I think I have found some more, will get this checked
tomorrow when I go in for my last treatment. I am falling apart.. as soon
as my MRI is done, I will be having surgery on my cervical discs. I had C
4 & 5 fused 40 years ago and they are shrinking and C3 is in trouble and I
am in 24 hour pain with this neck problems. I can't be on pain meds and
try and think about what I am doing and pain meds really make me crabby
and
you get enough of that from me with out something else being added too it.
Billie is very capable of handling everything... and I will let you all
know when I am going to be out of touch for a while. My computer will be
near but I will just have to see how I am doing.
If you have any questions I am here.
Gail
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