Please forward the following to your cc's.
Note that we now have the queries (at least recent queries anyways)
of about 1/3 of the USGenWeb county's in one place :-)
Patty
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Pam Carey, Randy Winch and I have been working together over the
past weeks to interface the GenConnect and Surname Helper systems. As
a result of this cooperation, items posted to a GenConnect board
are now indexed by Surname Helper and the number of sites
indexed by Surname Helper has quadrupled in size!
I'd like to thank Pam and Randy for their participation, I've very
much enjoyed working with them and hope to in the future.
Participation in Surname Helper by a GenConnect board does not
require any intervention on the part of the site manager. If your
GenConnect board had items posted to it as of a couple of weeks ago,
you should have received a message today indicating that your board
was participating. Boards that have had the first item added since
then, should be receiving notices in the next week. If you choose
not to participate in Surname Helper, please let me know and I will
remove you.
Surname Helper can now surname search sites that use a variety of
methods to manage queries (and other data as well). Sites using the
following methods or systems are currently participating in Surname
Helper; CCHelper, Query Express, GenConnect, and the TNGenWeb autobot
system. In addition, many pages have been indexed using utilities
provided by Surname Helper. These utilities work best for pages that
are relatively static, like older query pages or transcribed data
and index pages.
Here's a quick summary of the sites in Surname Helper:
Total number of sites: 1412
USGenWeb sites: 1024 counties in 48 states
WorldGenWeb sites: 342 in 43 countries
For more statistics detail, see:
http://cgi.rootsweb.com/surhelp-bin/sitestat.pl
If you'd like to try a Surname Helper search, see:
http://cgi.rootsweb.com/surhelp/srchall.html
To learn more about participating, see:
http://cgi.rootsweb.com/surhelp/mgrhome.html
Patty
Patty Lindsay
Beavercreek (Dayton), Ohio
plindsay(a)infinet.com
http://www.rootsweb.com/~cchelper/ - CCHelper
http://cgi.rootsweb.com/surhelp/ - Surname Helper
http://www.gendex.com/users/plindsay/ - My Genealogy
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohgreene/ - Greene Co Ohio
List owner for OHGREENE-L, DE-OLDSWEDES-L, CCHelper-L, and CCHelper-announce-L