As near as I can tell, because Ruth was unresponsive to requests, they took her off the
system. IIt happened with the Ripley County site. She is renovating her sites.
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry L Stout <gowdy(a)usa.com
To:
injeffer(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 5:12 pm
Subject: Re: [INJEFFER] Jefferson and Switzerland County GenWeb sites
Bob:
I am very confused about the working of the GenWeb sites. Why does everything
that was on the old Jefferson County site have to disappear when a new
coordinator takes over? The old site was one of the best that I have ever seen
... and that was because of the Ruth, the old coordinator. She put a lot into
this site as well as yourself and others who contributed. Other GenWeb sites
have little because the coordinator of these sites are not doing their job.
I was continually going to Ruth's Jefferson Co. site long after she stopped
doing the site. That information SHOULD remain for us to go to regardless of
the fact that someone new has taken over. The bad thing, of course, was that
with Ruth gone, we could see the old but nothing new was being added. I wanted
to add my Nelson Cemetery records but Ruth wasn't there to put them on. Sheila
now has it on both the Jefferson and Jennings county sites.
I applaud Sheila Kell for wanting to take over the Jefferson and Jennings County
sites. Finally, we are getting an active site with new information being
constantly added but it is going to take some time for Sheila to get it built
back up like it was. Let us remember that Ruth spent years putting this in.
Sheila is just getting started and, like the majority of the rest of us, isn't
getting paid to do genealogy. She has a life to live and can't spend all her
time on this.
What is GenWeb's policy? Are they to blame? It would seem to me that since
they owe this site, they would control what goes on it. I can't understand why
they would be agreeable to letting the old info just disappear like it has. Or,
does it take Ruth, the old coordinator, to agree to let Sheila use it? It will
take a long time to reenter everything. It seems to it could just be copied and
pasted from one site to another ... but I have never hosted a website.
Sheila has some new records on her site that wasn't on Ruth's site but we need
BOTH. And I will contribute whatever I can; however, I don't have the time to
do much. But I agree that it SHOULD remain on the site if and when someone new
takes over. This is what I don't understand.
I did go to the old site this week and signed up like instructed but Ruth or no
one else has gotten back to me. I am hoping that Ruth has this old info and
will make it available to us again even if it ends up on her own website and not
GenWeb. But it would be nice to have everything on one site. What really
confuses me is that both the old and new are GenWeb. It isn't like we are
leaving GenWeb and going to
Ancestry.com.
Please enlighten me a little more on this. Do we need to complain to GenWeb
about this?
Larry
----- Original Message -----
From: bobwscott(a)aol.com
To: inswitze(a)rootsweb.com, injeffer(a)rootsweb.com, rjgrimes(a)verizon.net,
dbeheler(a)gmail.com
Subject: [INJEFFER] Jefferson and Switzerland County GenWeb sites
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:45:25 -0400
Many of you may notice that a new coordinator has been apponted for
both the Switzerland and Jefferson County GenWeb sites.
I've told her I will not contribute new information, nor will I
offer my stuff that was posted on the old sites, to GenWeb.
This has nothing to do with the coordinator, who seems
enthusiastic. It's just I don't believe in the GenWeb system and
haven't believed in it for a long. I've been through changes like
this before with other sites in which I have contributed a lot of
material and some in which I have contributed nothing. An old site
has a lot of info--then a new coordinator is named and the great
content vanishes.
I simply believe the volunteer system doesn't work. The issue is
continuity and volunteer sites simply can't guarantee that once
posted, info will remain available. The other thing is consistency.
We labored long and hard to get information on these sites. But so
many times when I visited GenWeb sites for counties I am interested
in, there's simply little available. This is disheartening.
I'm hoping maybe that between the growing amount of content
available on the Jefferson County Historical Society and Madison
Public Library sites that some of this information can be provided
again. And as bad the quality control is sometimes, lousy policies
and lack of good customer service,
Ancestry.com is worth the money
simply because it has the resources to provide a lot of content (No
matter how stupid their new family tree system is. I started
putting up all my families in Gedcoms and had about 20 up. After I
found moving them to the new tree system lost all the notes and
supporting information, I delete all but two of them.)
Again, this has nothing to do with the people--the
coordinators--but about what I see as a better chance to have
information made available and remain available
Bob
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