Please read and consider. Thank you.
Denise
State Coordinator
NJGenWeb
Begin forwarded message:
From: Les Shockey via <wvgen(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: March 23, 2016 at 1:23:44 PM EDT
To: wvgen(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [WVGEN] Fwd: NC Health Issue and NGS Conference in Fort Lauderdale, May 4-7,
2016
Reply-To: Les Shockey <LesShockey(a)frontier.com>, wvgen(a)rootsweb.com
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: [STATE-COORD] NC Health Issue and NGS Conference in Fort
Lauderdale, May 4-7, 2016
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 12:32:44 -0400
From: Denise Wells via <state-coord(a)rootsweb.com>
Reply-To: Denise Wells <ncusgenweb(a)gmail.com>, state-coord(a)rootsweb.com
To: state-coord <state-coord(a)rootsweb.com>, usgenweb-discuss
<usgenweb-discuss(a)rootsweb.com>, discuss-l(a)googlegroups.com
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I know that many of your aren't interested in reading my long emails,
however, I feel that this is important to convey to all of you.
As many of you know, we have been scheduled to be a vendor at the upcoming
NGS Conference in Fort Lauderdale, FL, May 4-7, 2016. I had planned to be
there every day during the conference, but given my current health problem
I am dealing with, I cannot be sure that I can be there, especially full
time. When I asked NGS about a refund, they advised that they could only
refund me $310 of our donor payment. I was then advised that refunds had
to be requested prior to February 1. I explained that I did not receive my
final current diagnosis until February 15th. This lady then said she would
check with a director and let me know if they could do anything more. She
called me back, and said no, they could only refund to me $310 to be
returned to our donors. I then advised that had I been attempting to
cancel just because of a conflict of the date, or some other reason, I
would understand, and that I didn't feel it was fair to our supporters that
they be punished for my health problem.
I then went out on a limb and advised that given their resistance to
assisting The USGenWeb Project at this time, and my disappointment in them,
that as long as I was the National Coordinator, I wasn't going to be
interested in giving them any of our business during any term I might be
serving. (One never knows if they have enough pull to get a positive
reaction by saying that, but I felt it was worth taking a chance, right.)
She then asked if she could have one of the directors call me. I said
sure, that would be fine, but that I was very disappointed in NGS.
The person who called me back is the Executive Director of NGS. I
explained my situation, and that I was still working trying to get enough
volunteers to manage the booth because I am not confident that I can be
there full time or at all depending on my doctor's schedule. So he offered
to transfer both booths to the 2017 NGS Conference in Raleigh, NC. Seeing
an opportunity here, I asked if he would be willing to refund one booth for
this year, and transfer the second to Raleigh. He said he could do that.
We then discussed that I hoped to be able to put together enough volunteers
who will clearly make themselves available to assist with one booth this
year, then could we keep one booth for this year and one for next year. He
agreed to both of these requests. He will be calling me next week to see
what we worked out from our membership.
So, we need volunteers to assist with the both for USGenWeb. If you are
coming for the conference, please step up to assist. If there is any
possible way that I can be there, I will be as long as I am able to get
there and am not still dealing with recovery and unable to participate. I
really want to be there. If I'm just in pain, I may be there anyway.
The goal right now is to put together a team of people to manage the booth
for the period of the conference. Joy Fisher is most generally the person
who has handled the booth in the past and I am still hoping that she will
be attending. Joy has the banner for the booth and other supplies. If we
can get a team together, we will reduce from 2 booths to one booth. Then,
NGS will then transfer our second booth payment to the conference in 2017
at Raleigh, NC. If that conference occurs before the end of June (which it
probably will), we will still be in our 20th anniversary year. So we could
be celebrating our 20th Anniversary twice in a year. This is a great
opportunity for the Project.
Can you help? I certainly hope so.
Please let me or Patrice Green (genealogy(a)cfl.rr.com) or any of our other
AB members know that you can volunteer.
Thanks so much.
Denise Wells
National Coordinator 2014-2016 <
http://www.usgenweb.org>
The USGenWeb Project
www.usgenweb.org
Booth 431
<
http://fp37.a2zinc.net/clients/NGS/NGS2016/public/eventmap.aspx?shExhList...
at the 2016 NGS Conference
Fort Lauderdale, FL May 4-7, 2016
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Denise Wells <ncusgenweb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> For those who were not aware, I have some health issues that have
> necessitated temporarily turning the chair of USGW over to the
> Representative at Large, Patrice Green. We are, however, in communication
> regularly
>
> Long ago I sent out a request for volunteers to help man the booth at the
> NGS conference in Ft. Lauderdale and have had little response. I don't
> know if I will be able to attend, let alone man the booth alone. Should we
> give up the booth and try to get our money back to return it to the
> donors? Please respond to Patrice on this list or at genealogy(a)cfl.rr.com.
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> Denise Wells
> National Coordinator 2014-2016 <
http://www.usgenweb.org>
> The USGenWeb Project
>
www.usgenweb.org
>
> Booth 431
> <
http://fp37.a2zinc.net/clients/NGS/NGS2016/public/eventmap.aspx?shExhList...
> at the 2016 NGS Conference
> Fort Lauderdale, FL May 4-7, 2016
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