Ann made a good point about the county names and the confusion that could arise. That is
the one issue that I think needs to be re-considered.
Shirley
Ann <rgphold(a)midrivers.com> wrote:
I would like to announce the Petroleum County Community Library has allowed
us to place their history book, the Pages of Time, a History of Petroleum
County, online. It is located at
www.rootsweb.com/~mtpcpl/ in PDF format
with links from Petroleum and Fergus Counties. There are pages that appear
fuzzy but easily readable and need rescanned, but the entire book is online
available and updated pages will be added as we have time.
Nathan, the policy seems fine to me, with one exception, why the county
xxGenWeb? Some of the counties have very long names such Lewis and Clark
County and I feel they need to be identifed as counties and by state. Why
not just ID the counties by their proper names and as being part of the
MtGenWeb as we have always done, it makes more sense to me? Several states
have counties with the same names. Jefferson County for example is found in
Colorado, Alabama, Montana, Wisconsin, Washington, Texas, Kentucky, Florida,
Kansas, Idaho, New York, Missouri, West Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee and
others this one alone is reason for me to believe they should continue to be
indentified by their proper names as part of the state project.
Ann Kramlich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Petermann"
To:
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 11:22 PM
Subject: RE: [MTGEN-L] MTGenWeb Policy draft
It looks good, Nathan.
I'm going to have to crawl back in my cave and mumble to meself a while
before I decide if I really like Asst CCs having equal votes. Having been
through the battles of a few years ago, I can see a situation where CCs
appoint assistants just to gain a majority in a state where most counties
only have a CC.
But that's not to say I want to object on that basis. Just that I want to
chew it over a bit.
Secondly: the WibauxGenWeb idea - nice for a name like Wibaux, but if
someone has a name like KingGenWeb (King County, Washington - and a whole
lotta others) I can see a problem. Would "WibauxMTGenWeb" be too
cumbersome?
Best wishes,
Jim Petermann
Wibaux County
-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Zipfel [mailto:nzipfel@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 5:48 PM
To: MTGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [MTGEN-L] MTGenWeb Policy draft
Hi all,
I hope you all are enjoying a great summer. One of the things that I
wanted
to do as your State Coordinator was to see an official Policy adopted
that
governs this project to include the election procedure. I've taken a stab
at creating a draft set of policies. I modeled these after what we
adopted
in Pennsylvania and have served PA well. You can find them at
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mtgenweb/policy.html Please take some time
and
and read through them and offer your comments. Once the feedback
period
is
over and changes made will have a vote to adopt them. Remember these
are
your policies and not mine personally. I'd like to receive your feedback
by
July 15, that should be enough time to work through them.
Thanks for all the great work you do!
Nathan