Hi Betty,
Yes we will get you unsubbed before too long. Keep in touch!
Karen DJ
Betty Kusler wrote:
Hi, Thank you for the letter but I am no longer involved with the
Fallon
County program as Jodi Samel has taken over and doing such a good job.
Betty Kusler
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen De Groote-Johnson" <europatb(a)iowatelecom.net>
To: <mtgen(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 10:34 AM
Subject: [MTGEN] April Updates
> Hello Coordinators,
> Hope your weekend was enjoyable and spring is threating to become a
> reality in your neck of the woods.
> Just a few things going on in our project that you should be aware of:
>
> * Back when I was offline Nancy put out a roll call that you all
> answered. Additionally she asked you to check your sites for broken
> links. Nancy and I are going to begin manually checking each county for
> broken links and will give you a note with the findings. We will
> appreciate you taking care of the broken links as soon as possible.
> Nancy will start with the beginning of the alphabet and I am starting
> with the end of the alphabet and we will meet in the middle. Part of
> this check will be to confirm we are all abiding by USGenWeb
> requirements. The one that will likely come up the most is "prominent
> placement of the USGenWeb logo" and having said logo linked or a text
> link immediately under or over the logo. Prominent placing means that
> when a person visits your site, they immediately see the USGW
> affiliation. At the bottom of your index page is not a prominent
> placement. I would be happy to help anyone who does not know how to
> make a link in a graphic if you would like to learn. Another aspect is
> the name of your site. Using Glacier as an example: Glacier County
> Genealogy is NOT acceptable. Glacier County is NOT acceptable. Glacier
> County GenWeb IS acceptable. Glacier County MTGenWeb IS acceptable. I
> think you can understand what I am trying to say. You need to have
> GenWeb in your site name as that denotes it as part of the USGenWeb
> project.
>
> * Another item that Nancy and I are going to start going over is our
> current rules in preparation of adding new bylaws that all of us can
> come up with. One item that needs to be changed immediately is the
> verbage " 1. Each county page must have a pointer to link to the
> MTGenWeb Project State Page. The URL is:
http://www.mtgenweb.org/
> 2. Each county page must have a pointer to link to the MTGenWeb
> Archives Table of Contents. The URL is:
>
http://usgwarchives.net/mt/mtfiles.htm
> It is suggested that you further encourage people to visit the
> archives by listing some of the files for your county that can be found
> there."
> -The reason this needs to be changed immediately is because of the word
> "page". I don't think the intention was to require a link on every
> single page of our counties. I think only one county in the entire
> project is currently complying with this rule. I propose we substitute
> the word "site" for the word "page". Having this requirement on
your
> index page is sufficient to meet USGW guidelines. This may be left over
> from a time when multiple if not all counties in the project were on one
> site. ie: all of us having an address UNDER the state site
> ~mtgenweb/glacier.htm.
>
> *Karen's technical status-My struck by lightning PC has been replaced as
> of yesterday by a new PC. However I am stuck with using the old PC for
> my emails at this time until I can figure out how to migrate all of the
> emails and folders in the old Thunderbird to the new Thunderbird.
> Emailing from the old PC is not a problem but I wanted you to know I am
> running back and forth with email and doing my technical tasks.
> Patience right now will be much appreciated.
>
> That is all for the moment. Please let us know if you have any troubles
> registering for upcoming national election. We are fortunate to have a
> veteran EC member in our midst in Shirley Cullum.
>
> All my best,
> Karen DJ
>
>
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