Happy Sunday! I hope everyone is having the breezy, sunny spring weather we are enjoying
in Atlanta!
Please read the following, and share your ideas and preferences, on this list or
privately. I hope we can have an ongoing conversation this week.
I am VERY sad to announce that Julie Middleton has resigned as CC of Hartford and Windham
Counties. She works full time as a real estate appraiser, and is no longer able to spend
so much time with CTGenWeb. I've known Julie since 1998, and she really has been a
trooper. She knows that the door is open for her return any time! Thank you, Julie!
This leaves two well developed counties, Hartford and Windham, without County
Coordinators, in addition to Litchfield County which had abandoned for awhile. I would
like to discuss filling vacancies, and hope that you will respond on this list, or contact
me privately, with your thoughts and suggestions. I have not yet searched for replacements
outside the CTGenWeb, but will be doing that very soon.
For those of you who have not been with CTGenWeb long, this is not a sudden earthquake.
Those who have been around awhile, and may have served as SC or ASC, know that we have had
several CCs who came in like gangbusters with tons of excellent material, lost interest
over time, and diverted everything back to their personal genealogy sites.
Some county sites have been abandoned, and there are old pages of broken links still
floating around out there. If I find an abandoned site with the USGenWeb logo, and a link
to CTGenWeb, I will make every attempt to get contact the missing coordinator before
copying that data back to CTGenWeb. In most cases, they are not of any value.
Perhaps, beggars can't be choosers, but I feel that it is healthy to have as many
dedicated County Coordinators as possible, so the impact is less if a single CC leaves.
So, one question is: If you have one county, is there a second available county of great
interest to you? If you have only one county, is there another county that you strongly
prefer? We can't necessarily accommodate, but it is worth considering. I'm may
consider Windham County, because my Sabins were there. OR, does anyone have time to serve
as interim CC until a county it is adopted?
If you are a Town Coordinator, or Special Project Coordinator, is there a county of great
personal interest to you, and would you consider added responsibility? The ideal is for
everyone to have a town or county about which you feel a strong affinity. You will find
information about what is expected on this page:
http://www.ctgenweb.org/contribute.html
We all have different perspectives. I have only been State Coordinator about 18 months,
but I have had big counties in several states since 1998. I am rarely busy with more than
one at a time. Coordinating means responding to volunteers and researchers, and uploading
contributions. If you have time to do primary research, that's great, but in my
opinion, our job is to welcome participation, and make it easy for the contributor.
I'd love to get your feedback!
Pat
Patricia Sabin, State Coordinator
The CTGenWeb Project
www.CTGenWeb.org
New London County CTGenWeb
http://www.ctgenweb.org/county/conewlondon/
Alternate: patricia.sabin(a)comcast.net
P.S. There are some email addresses on the CTGenWeb mailing list that I don't
recognize. If you are receiving these messages, and are no longer an active member of the
CTGenWeb Project, please let me know, and I will remove your name. Thanks you!