Dear NC Friends,
It seems that the more things change, the more they remain the same.
When I was the NC State Coordinator (2001-2002), my entire term was devoted
to putting out fires and trying to avoid surreptitious take-overs of our
project.
We had fraudulent persons who assumed aliases and tried to take county
sites. Not surprisingly, THEY ARE BACK! And they are seeking board
representation!
In NC, we had competing interests who tried to replace our NCGenWeb sites
with other identities. They seemed to share common goals and identities.
The same names and personalities caused 97% of the problems, in spite of
the fact that they represented less than 3% of our members.
The same agendas seem to currently prevail: Hate the USGenweb and promote
other take-over entities.
I've seen NCRoots, AHGP, USGenNet, ALHN, USGW,org,
WebRoots.org, WDC GenWeb
Project,
NCGenWeb.org,
NCGenWeb.org.
They come come and they go. Some still exist, others have expired.
They claim to be totally independent but some still exist try and extort
support support from their members through donations.
They hate the fact that RootsWeb found a benefactor who supports any and
all USGenWeb pages and RootsWeb lists.
They hate the fact that they have not been able to dominate the Internet
world of genealogy.
They fail to recognize that "there ain't no free lunch." Somebody has to
pay for band width. We could never have survived without a sponsor.
RootsWeb has a benefactor through
Ancestry.com who pays for our band width.
The other sites continues to beg for contributions to support their sites.
When they can't take over established pages and lists, they try
to infiltrate the USGenWeb pages as AB''s, CC's, volunteers, or whatever.
Back in 2001, we recognized them and their tactics as electronic
terrorists. They were excluded then and they should be excluded now.
Some of them have recently slithered to the top of the pond scum. They seek
to become a part of our organization through infiltration.
While the USGenWeb Project have taken a decade to become THE pre-eminent
Internet genealogical entity the pretenders seek to take it over and make
it their own.
They offer their help, through volunteerism, graphic contributions and
advisors, in order to ingratiate themselves with the newer (or naive) members.
Anyone who has been affiliated with our Project for any length of time
knows them and is familiar with their brazen attempts to subvert our Project.
Every few years, we need to inform our newer members of the fact that
genealogy is not the pure and clean avocation we had envisioned.
Just like Islamic terrorists, some of these folks patiently wait for us to
relax our guard so that they may do their dirty deeds.
Please don't judge this treatise as alarmist. Some folks were with me when
the NCGenweb faced some very difficult times. THEY KNOW THE TRUTH!
Archives still exist and I am happy to share them with anyone who may have
doubts about the folks who "come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly
are ravening wolves."
Derick S. Hartshorn
Page host-Burke-Catawba-Lincoln Counties, NCGenWeb
At 07:14 PM 3/19/2006, you wrote:
B. J.
I asked and you said you had no idea who was holding the county.
Nola
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>I just learned that a Dear online friend of mine has been unceremoniously
>kicked out of the NCGenWeb Project for NO GOOD reasons. This is unfair and
>unreasonable!! When I was asked to come back to the NCGenWeb, I thought
>things
>were going to be different than they were when other of my friends were
>driven
>out of NCGenWeb, but I see nothing has changed here. Some of SC/ASCs still
>seems to think that it is their job to hinder rather than âhelpâ
>CCs. The
>SC/ASCs seem to think that she is only doing her job if she is hassling
>a good
>CC and driving a wedge among the rest of us, while multiple other counties
>go unattended even for years! When this Project has a total of 4 micro
>managers, one would think that the NCGenweb would be a Garden Palace,
>but it is
>not and that must be because the 4 only think their job is to tear apart a
>willing volunteer so they can give the county site to a person who has been
>itching after that site for years. So I assume itâs âWho you know in
>the Projectâ
>, and therefore, the bonds of corruption are formed. To use the excuse that
>the page is not kept is just a ploy. I don't buy this. It was maintained
>better than many I have looked at. One hasnât been updated in
>3 years!! So once
>again, it seems that things haven't changed and are not what they should be.
>This concerns me greatly, and as a CC it should matter to you as well.
>I spoke with Sarah of Beaufort County, and she says no one has complained
>to her. NO ONE! One CC wants that site and he has gone so far as to cause a
>previous contributor to demand Sarah remove files that the girl had
>previously contributed, using some sort of innuendo referencing
>that they didnât KNOW
>anything about Sarah, the new host and therefore she shouldnât be
>allowed to
>keep that data on her site! This is a railroad job and you people know it!!
>NCGenWeb should be ashamed of itself.
>Amazed in Martin County.
>
>
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