To borrow a phrase and to paraphrase it "As a FLGenWeb Volunteer County
Coordinator, your primary role is: to maintain your pages and to update
the Query and Surname lists (as applicable." By the time you spend
several hours or days researching new information for your county web
site and editing your information. You still have several hour/days in
compiling into your draft format and finally into html.
I find it amazing for those of you that work a full time job and still
find time to maintain excellant web sites. With me I'm what can be
classified as a "House-Husband", my wife makes the forty plus hours a
week. I stay home and keep house, I'm so thankful that my last rug-rat
is in the 5th grade. Mindful, I'm not compaining, but just stating
facts that I have more time afrer everyone else goes to bed to do my
site maintenance.
I'm lucky that I live between the two counties I sponsor. Thirty
minutes in each direction and I'm in the court house in either Jasper or
Mayo. However, I don't have the luxury of having local voluteers that
provide their input. I feel fortunate to have fair amount of research
material on hand to help in answering off the wall queries.
I guess what really fries my bacon, is when I receive request that
indicate they've exhausted all means of finding answers for their
questions; and when I locate the inforamtion it's contained right where
it belongs, on the county web site. I answer upwards of thirty queries
plus per month that I receive through the state coordinators e-mail
address.
Well, I'm going to take off my apron and stoke the stove, put out the
cat and go to bed.
I didn't intend saying as much as I did, but when my fingers start
talking, they just don't know when to stop. One last note, in the past
six months I've answered better than a dozen e-mail queries through the
SC address, that turned out to be distant relatives.
Good Night,
Darrel