Judy and I received the following message (snipped to keep certain information
confidential) today. The writer is concerned about the "lack of e-mail addresses to
contact county coordinators" in the MTGenWeb Project. The problem reflects badly on
the entire project and needs to be corrected.
The USGenWeb requires all sites to display the CC's name AND email address. A contact
form may be used for the email but it must be easily accessible. Please make sure your
county website is compliant with the requirement.
Contact me if you need assistance.
Thanks,Shirley
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Date: Monday, April 23, 2012, 2:08 PM
To: Montana GenWeb Project
Shirley Cullum, State Coordinator: shirlcullum(a)sbcglobal.net
Judy Wallis White, Assistant State Coordinator, jjwalliswhite(a)gmail.com
From: Terry Kayes, Writer and Historian, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ret.),
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Ret.)
Subject: Seeming Lack of Appropriate E-Mail Addresses to Contact County Coordinators for
Montana GenWeb Project
As a writer and historian who has recently been gearing up to write a series of monographs
(or maybe a book) on the social and economic history of western and central Montana during
the period 1863 to 1918, in relation to the migration, movement and relationships between
people and families in Montana, I've recently been developing a list of sources and
contact people for this project. In trying to do this, I have been surprised at how many
of Montana's GenWeb County Coordinators appear to have gone about the business of
making themselves difficult or impossible to contact.
Perhaps, I am wrong on this, but one standard tactic seems to be to try to first dissuade
anybody from contacting them, then referring to an email address for them that is either
difficult or impossible to find anywhere on the website.
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