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I am excited and disappointed at the same time.
I finally got my 2010 Census and was excited about the prospect of filling it out as we deal with it so much in our research.
I felt it a duty to future generations. However, the information asked for was rather void of any real content compared with years past.
They don't ask any of the questions that they used to ask, no occupation or anything like that.
Anyway...
I have recently taken over doing the website for the Owen County Historical and Genealogical Society.
The new URL for anyone looking for it is-- http://www.sweetowen.net/OCHGShomepage.html
I also realize that I have been slack in updating the Sweet Owen site lately and the reasoning is due to building the site for the Society as well as I have been going through the Sweet Owen site and cleaning up errors, missing pages, bad links, and generally anything that looks bad.
If you have any corrections to your surname searches, this is the time to send them to me as I am completely going through the site page by page. It is quite a task though.
If you do however decide to send any corrections to your surnames PLEASE be very clear what you are sending so that I can store it properly until it is entered.
Please place SURNAME CORRECTIONS in your subject line.
Likewise if there are any email changes place EMAIL CHANGES in your subject line.
I PROMISE-- I will return to updating the website as soon as possible. I just got tired of constantly coming up against bad links or anything of that sort.
I have also as of Sunday created a page for the Sweet Owen and Surrounding Areas on FACEBOOK.
The location is -- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sweet-Owen-and-Surrounding-Areas/3690627971...
Just go there and click on "become a fan".
If you aren't a member, please consider joining facebook, it is simple and again free.
This will give us another avenue to post queries or just anything. Not so structured as the mailing list. Perhaps more viewers to your searches.
As I can I will throw obituaries on there or just any little thing pertaining to research. Perhaps announcements about website updates or other stuff.
I don't know how many of your have Facebook, but it was just a thought that perhaps it would serve us well.
It is free and IF EVER Rootsweb changes or as it is connected to Ancestry, it becomes any kind of pay service, this would provide us with an avenue for free positng. That is why I created the website on a different server in order to have that control. This Facebook will remain regardless of what may ever happen with Rootsweb/Ancestry. (No, I haven't heard anything.)
Photos may also be placed on there. I haven't really got anything there right now, just the page. The more people who visit though, they can add stuff maybe.
Debbie Jennings