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It seems that Internet Montana is now getting most of their email. The
hotmail database just got the correct IP address in yesterday. From what I
understand, AOL had agreed last night to hold all imt.net mail until they
were sure their data base was corrected.... so you should not get anymore
email bounces for me. You might keep my hotmail addy
ramakiki(a)hotmail.com
on file for those 'just in case' occasions if you get any future email bounces.
By the way, have to tell you that one of my Grandaughters, now 9 going on
13, couldn't say Grandma Corky when she was little.... so it was
"ramakiki". I don't want her to grow up, so used the name in my hotmail
addy! <G>
Thanks.
Corky
Corky Knebel
MtGenWeb Project State Coordinator
http://www.imt.net/~corkykn/montana.html
You two are great... except that you put some of us to shame! It seems
like every few weeks you are adding something new to the site!
Thanks for all of your great efforts on the behalf of Internet genealogy!
Corky
Corky Knebel
MtGenWeb Project State Coordinator
http://www.imt.net/~corkykn/montana.html
I just had a query from "Down Under" asking about the location of
Pleasant Valley. There is one here in Flathead County, but are there
others in other counties? Part of the query stated PV was about 75
miles from Great Falls and sapphires were discovered there. Can anyone
clue me in?
Thanks
Gayle
Flathead MTGenWeb
Betty Distad and I have added a couple new sites, one is Pioneer Stories
at http://www.rootsweb.com/~mtnews/ it is mainly stories from printed
articles in newspapers about families in Montana. Old and new stories
are welcome. We have permission to reprint all the stories and photos
that have been printed in the Lewistown News Argus, as long as they get
credit and the articles and photos are not used for profit. Someof the
stories have been submitted by other individuals.
The other is North American Metis. It has GenConnect boards in place and
a metis-l mailing list. There are many Metis families in Montana. They
were some of the first settlers in the Lewistown area. It is located at
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nametis/
Ann and Betty
The neatest thing has happened with the Montana Photo Archives we have
had nearly 300 visitors in less than 24 hours. Last night about 11 pm I
uploaded the index page with a new MtGenWeb Logo, there were 2358
visitors since January 24th when I realized the counter that Patti had
set up had quit working in the transfer. Tonight I have checked there
have been 2604 as of 9:45 pm. I received a message from a gentleman in
Richland County that said he read about our photo archives in an e-zine
from Rootsweb, he offered the photos on his site one being the Richland
County Courthouse. I am waiting to hear back to see which E-zine he read
it in and consent to just copy them from his site.
Patti, you have a lot to be proud of, it is really growing! Thanks for
such a great site for all to enjoy. I have had more offers to send
photos in one day than in any week since I took it over. Great work and
many thanks to all of you for your contributions. If anyone has a County
Courthouse photo that we don't have on the site, we could use a few
more. I also got an offer of about 30 old courthouse postcards, 5 have
already been posted.The postcard photos are posted below the regular
courthouse index. Any suggestions for new catagories are welcome, and I
have added thumbnails to the index pages. Fergus, the Unknowns and the
Maps index have not been updated yet.
The new logo I added is a photo of a beautiful Bitterroot, with 3
flowers on it. The lady that photographed this Bitterroot is Ann Telling
a Montana resident that has a great Montana Photo page at
http://www.montanaphotos.com/ if you would like to use the Bitterroot
Logo, all she asks is for a mention that she photographed the flowers
and a link to her page. Take a look, you will be glad you did. Just copy
it from any of my web pages if you like it. (The Photo Archives, Fergus,
Petroleum, Phillips, Judith Basin and Toole Counties.) There is another
Bitterroot photo with one flower that I can substitute if you would
rather have it.
Ann
Hello everyone,
Well this is a new one to me! Last week, someone in Istanbul, Turkey
contacted INTERNIC - the ones who control the domain names in the world of
the Internet. They gave their name as the owner of Computer's Unlimited
here in Billings, i.e. the owners of imt.net, and sent Internic a new
server IP address number, etc. Internic said, "Okay!". As the kids say,
"duh"! They used to send back an email asking for authorization from the
original owner, but they've eliminated that step due to time, money or
whatever! Intelligent, huh? <G>
So, for the last few days, all of our imt.net email has been going to some
server in Turkey - or most likely just bouncing!! Thus, my email bins
have been pretty dry!
imt.net has contacted Internic and has it straighted out; however, imt.net
is busy propulgating (I think that's the word they used) the correct IP
address to all of the servers. They asked me, for instance, for the names
of some servers from which I get a lot of mail and I gave them rootsweb.com.
As of this moment, about 60% of the servers out there recognize the correct
imt.net. Hotmail, Yahoo and a few others do not yet. I guess it takes a
few days to straighten out by means of 'passing the message' or something.
So..... if you get any bounces on emails you sent this week - last week or
this - you'll know why.
If you need to reach me re: MTGenWeb business, etc., and get a bounce,
email me at
ramakiki(a)hotmail.com
I don't normally check my hotmail account really often, but will for sure
this next week or two.
By the way, imt.net techies told me that Internic says this is becoming a
real problem with servers around the country... hijackers. Hmmmmm! Think
maybe they should start checking before they change an IP address?
Thanks for your patience people.
Corky
I found this search engine today, it is being Beta tested now, but is
kind of nice, it gives you several choices for searching. It has one
search engine, called The Cozy Cabin that set it goal to be free of
sites you don't want your children seeing. http://www.searchengines.com/
Check it out.
Ann
For everyone's information, I have moved my Rosebud County Page to a new
server. The new URL is www.rosebudcounty.homestead.com. I will leave a
forwarding message on the old server for a while to direct people. Please
change your bookmarks and any links you might have.
Thanks.
Debbie Schreiner
Rosebud County Coordinator
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Joan--
There may be some that are the same people, but the biographies are not
identical. I've found with the various "histories" (Burlingame, Stout,
etc.), that there are some of the same people, but for the most part,
each of the histories offer different people.
Gayle
Joan and/or Dan Shurtliff wrote:
>
> Gayle - In your History of Montana - are the biographies the same ones as
> "Prominent Men in the State of Montana"? If so, that part would already be
> indexed the the Archives.
> Joan Shurtliff
> Sweet Grass County GenWeb Volunteer
> --------------
> Tempus Fugit
Gayle - In your History of Montana - are the biographies the same ones as
"Prominent Men in the State of Montana"? If so, that part would already be
indexed the the Archives.
Joan Shurtliff
Sweet Grass County GenWeb Volunteer
--------------
Tempus Fugit
Just wanted to let all of you know while I was in Great Falls the past 2
days for a meeting, I managed to find and purchase the 3-volume set of
"A History of Montana" by Helen Fitzgerald Sanders, copyright 1913!!!
Two of the volumes are just biographies from all over the state. As soon
as I find some free time or another volunteer, I'll get the set indexed
for the Montana Archives.
In the meantime, if any of you have need of lookups for any of your
researchers, just E me and I'll check the books.
Gayle
Flathead and Lincoln Counties Coordinator
I believe the gentleman was looking for Brownlee.
I look forward to the census being published when it's complete. For
myself, as much as for everyone else! I really need to find out more info
on my g-g-grandfather.
Debbie Schreiner
Rosebud County Coord.
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Any name to look for?? I transcribed the Rosebud Census over a year ago and
it was supposed to have been put on the Montana site but never have seen it
there.
Linda
I'll bet you're referring to the 1890 census? We have many of the
counties transcribed by several transcribers, including you, Linda; but one
transcriber has not been able to complete their counties. I have been
promised that the census is "in the mail" and think that I will get it soon
and out to another transcriber so that we can get this thing in the archives!
Hopefully, I will be able to combine all of the census names and at least
some of the info transcribed, into one main index. That is the reason I
have not just posted it in bits and pieces.
This has been unfortunate, but the transcriber had good intentions that
went awry due to other obligations.
Let's hope I get it and that it is online soon.
Corky
Corky Knebel
MtGenWeb Project State Coordinator
http://www.imt.net/~corkykn/montana.html
Hi all,
Thanks to Ann and Vicki for keeping you and the National people posted
while our server was down. I never did figure out what it was, but their
phone message yesterday all day was that Sprint was working out the
problem. IMT.net is in with Computer's Unlimited, a firm that does major
software development here in Billings for some of the major health
industries and two of the world's largest welding supply corporations in
the world. Their own employees (my Son-in-law is one of them) could not
get online at work, and a few of their 150 + employees who telecommute from
other parts of the state could not connect with them to do their work. It
was a real mess.
Anyway, it just got up and running. Evidently I lost no email messages as
I had a ton of them waiting. I do know that when I sent out my messages
Mon. a.m., they cam back as unable to deliver. So, those of you who got
messages last night or early this a.m. were just receiving those I had sent
on Monday.
So, we're back in business.
Corky
Corky Knebel
MtGenWeb Project State Coordinator
http://www.imt.net/~corkykn/montana.html
Everyone,
I received this message this morning. THe MtGenWeb State pages and her
county pages are offl;ne and were offline all day yesterday.
Ann
Dear Vicki and Ann,
I am Corky Knebel's daughter-in-law. Her internet server is down and
she
asked me to email you with the following message.
Corky says the server has an "upstream problem with our internet
backbone. There is no time frame for repair at this time."
I don't think her pages are up. I tried one from my machine and it
wouldn't load.
Please post it to MTGEN-L that the pages are down and the server is
having problems.
Vicki, will you please notify Tim Scowell if the pages aren't on line
when you receive this.
Corky will email you immediately as soon as the server is back on line.
Thank you,
Janice Davis
for Corky Knebel
Hello again!
Well, this was one of the speediest turnovers we've experienced! <G>
Evidently, Nancy Thornton had been providing some help to Janice Glore
Noblitt with Teton County. Now, Nancy has now graciously accepted the
position of the new Teton Co. CC!!! Ann Kramlich got the site
transferred over to Rootsweb, (with the weird problems with the graphics
appearing and then disappearing, even now! <G>), and Nancy has resumed
maintenence.
Nancy, welcome to our MTGenWeb gang! You'll find some great people here...
many willing to help. Feel free to discuss your successes, goals,
concerns, problems here on MTGEN-L.
We'd love to have you post a brief bio here for us so we can know you better.
Corky
Corky Knebel
MtGenWeb Project State Coordinator
http://www.imt.net/~corkykn/montana.html
We are saddened to have to say "goodbye" to our Teton County Coordinator,
Janice Glore Noblitt. Janice has to be concerned for awhile with her 'real
life', (go figure!), <G> and needs to put her energies there. We have
appreciated Janice's great work with Teton County and will miss her!
Take care Janice, and we hope perhaps someday you can re-join us!
Corky
Corky Knebel
MtGenWeb Project State Coordinator
http://www.imt.net/~corkykn/montana.html
Hi,
As one of the most derilict in my duty of conducting any major updates for my
county sites as to content and links, I know I am behind many of you in some of
this stuff. However, I still thought I'd "humbly" pass along a couple of the
changes I'd suggest on our county sites.
1. I decided to remove the links (also the reference to them in the
"requirements for CC's page"), to both GENDEX (Gene Stark's Index of Names for
all GenWeb Project sites), and the Genealogists Index to the World Wide Web.
Both are now "fee" sites for any in depth research, which is fine, but I feel
it is redundant to link to them since we have many search engines via
GenConnect and Rootsweb that are totally free to users... and which search the
same databases!
2. In place of the above, I have listed:
Resources at Rootsweb
Rootsweb's Surname, County and State Resource sites - a very useful tool
GenConnect
The main GenConnect page allows you to access and view boards around the U.S.
and the World! There are also worldwide surname search engines!
3. I have also added the MTGenWeb Project search engine for each of my
counties
to the pages, (following Ann K., Janice Glore Noblitt, and many others!). To
do so yourself, you are free to simply swipe the coding from Carbon or
Musselshell Co. pages, or on Ann's Fergus Co. page, change the headings and
coding as they pertain to the county name, and you're ready to go. I'm am
really excited about this resource for our sites.
In addition to the search engine, we need to provide a link directly to the
MTGenWeb Project Archives Table of Contents themselves in case people want to
browse. Check out example on Ann's or my county pages, if you wish.
I note that some sites almost "hide" the Archives, while I think they should be
prominent on the sites. According to what I've seen, the Montana Archives
have more info than many other states.... thanks to the work of many volunteers
and to our fine Archive Coordinator, Elizabeth. I still get many emails asking
about Homestead records when there are thousands of names already in our
Archives for all of the BLM homesteads - all right at their fingertips, but
they do not know it.
As always, remember you are very much appreciated!!!!! Happy Easter to all of
you dear people!
Corky
Corky Knebel
MtGenWeb Project State Coordinator
http://www.imt.net/~corkykn/montana.html
Can anyone help this gentleman? I don't have much info on the census and he
doesn't mention anything about Rosebud County that I can help with. Thanks.
Debbie Schreiner
----- Original Message -----
> From: IWB34(a)aol.com
> Message-ID: <6a.148371a.260baf8a(a)aol.com>
> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 12:34:02 EST
> Subject: Rosebud, MT 1889
> To: klarwa(a)excite.com
>
> Hello,
>
> I have started to attempt a search of my grandfathers activities in the
West
> in 1889 - 1893. At this point I am going in too many directions and
really
> don't know how to get some information.
>
> As they said in school, no question is a dumb question.
>
> I have a letter sent to my Grandfather dated January 8, 1890, indicating
he
> had been in the employment of the Northern pacific Railroad Company,
> Telegraph Division, since April 1889. I am attempting to get information
on
> him through the RR but without any luck at this time. From Montana he
> apparently went to Wyoming.
>
> What I am really asking you is how do I get information from the 1890
census
> records. Wyoming sources told me he was not on their 1890 census. Now I
am
> wanting to take a look at the MT 1890 census.
>
> Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Do you have any information
as to
> what railroad, their activities were going on at that time.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Bill Brownlee
> PO Box 357
> Harrison, OH 45040
> email: IWB34(a)aol.com
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