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I wasn't going to write as others have expressed my interest. If you want us
to be cookie cutters, I'm out of here. I work in another state where
requirements are out of hand with each new state coordinator having to add
their stamp on the project by adding another requirement. We now have to add
new non-random transcribed data twice a year or we are out of there.
My point is every county is different, some have more data that we can add,
some have copyrighted material that we can't copy.
Even then people don't read. They use the search for their taxes, I tell
them right there this isn't the county site with their taxes. Then when I
get the report I see they have indeed searched for their taxes.
Some also only research in one Ohio county so what good would
standardization do?
Just my two cents.
Shannon Moore
I urge everyone to take a look at how TXGenWeb handles the differences
between counties. We do not require everyone to match a template.
However, we do have some basic requirements that must be met. These
aren't requirements that are outlandish or anything and some of them
are required by USGenWeb.
We also have a monthly County of the Month award that showcases the
best of the best to help others get new ideas for their websites. We
have a committee of Surfers that check all of the counties each month
to ensure that requirements are being met. There is some whining
every once in awhile about a tiny requirement, but when we take the
time to explain why it is a requirement and offer to help, the whining
usually stops.
You can read about the County of the Month Award at
http://www.rootsweb.com/~txgenweb/surfing/.
You can look at the requirements at
http://www.rootsweb.com/~txgenweb/surfing/Criteria/index.htm.
Other than that, I think it is important to give people a chance to
use their own level of skills and creativity.
Cheers!
Kimm Antell
Clermont County, Ohio and Tom Green and Karnes County, TX
Member of the surfing committee for TXGenWeb
Web designer of TXGenWeb
Hello List,
I too believe in maintaining our indivdual county creativity and design to
our sights. I am proiud of my sight and have recieved multiple comliments
over the years. But I do not see a uniform contents page as a threat to
this. I did not take the original email to mean that we all need to change
our design or layout. Rather just consider adding a uniform Content/Index
page to make our Ohio Genweb easier for the user to navigate from county to
county.
Sincerely,
Mark Lozer
Fulton County Ohio Genealogy Web Page
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohfulton/
Hello list,
This is my first email I have ever written to the OHGEN list. I have been
Fulton County Cordinator since Nov, 1999. My pages would probably fall in
the catagory of artistic and creative and at times I think maybe I have
gone too far and make things too hard to find.
I agree that our creativity is the drive behind what makes many of us
volunteer, but at the same time I do understand the idea of a uniform
contents or index page. I would have no objection of adding a table of
contents or index and then just making links to my existing pages where
these things are found. The standard Contents/Index page could be it's own
page with a link to it placed at the begining of your main page and maybe
as a footer to all your pages as time permits. This would not take away
from our individual creativity. It makes sense to make it easier for
researchers to search the Ohio Genweb pages and this would certainly help.
I feel this could be done without offending our county cordinators if
presented in the right manner. After all it would not be done to offend
any of us, rather just to help genealogy researchers with their internet
search. Is that not what our goal is, to have information for our counties
easily and readily available online and free to our fellow genealogists?
I haved looked at my pages many times over the years as the have grown and
thought they are getting out of hand and losing the organiztion they need
to be effective. A content or index may be just what my pages need to pull
them together and making a uniform content/index page would do the same for
the Ohio Genweb.
The content list that Sandra sent us appears to have the primary catagories
that we all present on our pages we could all easily add subcatagoires to
fit the needs of our pages. There may be some other categories that need
to be added. I realize that this may take some time to implement but in
the long run it would make the Ohio Genweb much easier to navigate. We
should not think of layout requirenments as an order from the top or
bossing us around, but rather just part of the required guidelines to
create our pages. Any project of this magnitude needs some uniform
parameters to keep it organized so it remains the effective genealogy tool
that it is intended to be. The more our pages grow the more necessary a
uniform Content/Index becomes. I urge all of you to consider this as a
positive growth in our Ohio Genweb project. I for one appreciate all your
efforts as an Ohio Genweb volunteer.
Sincerely,
Mark Lozer
Fulton County Ohio Genealogy Web Page
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohfulton/
As for standardization - I don't think that standardization is a realistic
goal ... and would be very difficult to require. All of us come to this
Project with different skills and talents. Some have formal training in html,
others don't. Some have 8 hours a day to work on our sites, others do not.
Some sites are larger, which presents certain challenges, and some are smaller.
And each site is different too ... I always have a lot of information to add
to my Richland Co. site - but my Ashland Co. is a little more tricky to
gather info. for. So what works with one site, doesn't necessarily work with
another.
In the past I've also been a CC for a county in Virginia, and one in
California ... and neither of those states have any type of standardization across
their county sites - with the exception of requiring the same basic items that
OHGenWeb requires.
Amy E. Armstrong
Hi, all.
How about each county adding such a list to a page OTHER than the main index
page?
It could be linked to from the main index page as a "site map" of sorts.
It could be added to that required page I asked about several days ago (and
no one has answered yet that I've noticed) that gives the history of the
project and of the county page, and recommends readers to check out a couple of
other sites, one of which (Gene Stark's) is now defunct.
One required page seems to be enough to me, and I don't think it should be
the main (index) page.
Nancy Sween
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohbutler
In a message dated 5/2/2005 2:27:14 PM Central Daylight Time,
sandra_quinn(a)alltel.net writes:
Pike County Email List
Ahnentafel Charts
Articles and Stories
Bible Records
Biographies
Birth Records
Cemeteries
Censuses
Church Records
Courthouse Information
Death Information
Descendancies
Family Sites
History
Immigration Records
Land Records
Locations
Maps
Marriage Records
Military History
Miscellaneous Records
Obituaries and Notices
Pictures and Photographs
Pike County and Lower Scioto Valley Reunions
Queries
Research Help and Information
Surnames
Wills and Administrations
Search Scioto.Org
The Home Page
OHGEN-D-request(a)rootsweb.com wrote:
>
-//-
> Sandy, just how is it that he knows that you were just elected?
>
> Dave Koester
Mr. Correspondent wrote to me on 4/18 (though not nearly so in-depth as
he wrote to Sandy, apparently), and I indicated that I'd pass along his
message to the new SC:
> > 18 April 2005// Just a note to let you know I admire the organizational
> > format you have designed and implemented for the Pike, Ross, and Scioto
> > County websites. It is very user friendly from my perspective. You have
> > developed a framework on which you can build over time an ever
> > increasingly meaningful source of information for those seeking vital
> > information developed within these counties so long ago. My only wish
> > is the Ohio state co-ordinator [and other states as well] would adopt
> > your format as a required standard for the other area co-ordinators to
> > follow. But, here we get into egos and programming skills, I suppose.
> > <correspondent sig>
>
> Howdy <correspondent>:
>
> Thanks for the kind email! I appreciate hearing that the sites are
> working well for you (and from others who periodically make mention). I
> try to keep things efficient, easy-to-find, and as user-friendly as
> possible, since genealogy is fraught with enough headaches of its own
> without cumbersome websites adding to the mix. :-)
>
> You're right on the money: each website is particular to the webmaster's
> skills, desires, and resources available, but I'll be glad to pass along
> the wish to our new OHGenWeb State Coordinator, Sandy Quinn.
-Ar.
--
Allen Richmond, Pike(a)Scioto.Org
http://www.Scioto.Org/Pike/ - Pike Co OH
Sandra,
I don't object to some degree of standardization - to a point. In my case,
I don't have resources available for many of the categories listed in the
Pike site. Our local OGS has books to sell and doesn't want that info
available via the web site, other than by buying the books. I have limited
time (and talent) to apply to the web site and try to assure what I do have
is current and operational. If the standard is adopted I must resign and
let someone with more time and talent take over.
Rodger Reedy
Greene Co.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandra Quinn" <sandra_quinn(a)alltel.net>
To: <OHGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 3:27 PM
Subject: [OHGEN] Attention County Coordinators:
> Hi Group! Hope this email finds you well!
>
> I received this email this morning from an OHGenWeb researcher and I would
> like to share this with you all. I think this is something we should all
> be aware of and think about when we review our county pages and links!
> When the writer of this email talks about Pike counties table of contents
> he is talking about this list: Pike County Email List
> Ahnentafel Charts
> Articles and Stories
> Bible Records
> Biographies
> Birth Records
> Cemeteries
> Censuses
> Church Records
> Courthouse Information
> Death Information
> Descendancies
> Family Sites
> History
> Immigration Records
> Land Records
> Locations
> Maps
> Marriage Records
> Military History
> Miscellaneous Records
> Obituaries and Notices
> Pictures and Photographs
> Pike County and Lower Scioto Valley Reunions
> Queries
> Research Help and Information
> Surnames
> Wills and Administrations
> Search Scioto.Org
> The Home Page
>
> This Pike county website belongs to Allen Richmond our previous state
> coordinator. It is a easily researched and understood layout for
> researchers.
>
> If you would like us to take a vote again on what should be included and
> how the table of contents page should be layed out for our county
> websites, please email me and we can do another vote. The last was in
> 1999.
>
> I would like to hear from each of you after you read this email!
>
> Sandy
> Your Ohio SC
>
>
> {Sandra:
>
> I know your Ohio county sites are produced by volunteers, and alot of hard
> work and time is involved. But......this from my experience in leadership
> does not preclude teamwork and being in unified step with one another in
> an effort to produce an easily understood and followed menu for content.
> The county co-ordinators now under your direction do not have a uniform
> presentation to researchers, and this means each researcher has to learn a
> new menu, if one even exists. A different and verying learning curve for
> virtually EVERY county in Ohio, with a few exceptions. The content
> within is also not uniform in terms of information I've just looked at
> XXXXXX County and find it is the work of perhaps an artist who has put
> this together and not of a disseminator of information. I would like to
> suggest you go to any professional librarian and work out a standard
> state-wide menu for table of contents for each county and REQUIRE all
> co-ordinators to get in step with YOUR program. Personally, I prefer what
> the Pike County co-ordinator has designed, but this is personal opinion,
> and not a request (but it is the best one there is, I think) . My request
> is for standardization of the web sites in terms of (1) organization and
> format and (2) hopefully content. I understand you are new to this
> position, so this is perhaps an opportunity for you to use your fresh
> start in improving the co-ordination and standardization of the product
> your fine hard working volunteers try to make available. I also
> understand computer programming skills vary and egos are involved, but as
> the co-ordinator hopefully you can lay it on the line that egos are not
> negotiable. When someone has invented a good wheel, you do not waste time
> trying to re-invent it, which is exactly what too many county
> co-ordinators in Ohio appear to have done Don't take my opinion as fact.
> Let the librarians guide you to a STANDARDIZATION that all can live and
> work with, then you oversee accordingly. As of now, there is no appearant
> co-ordination, but each county co-ordinator is on their own. That's my
> beef. The older one's eyes become the more challenging it is for them all
> to pick up what should be quick reads and finds, and by not having a
> standard menu for table of contents at each county only make people read
> and re-read, often several times, before they can decide if what they are
> looking for really exists. As it is, I never did find in Marion County
> whether or not they had transcriptions of tombstones on a
> cemetery-by-cemetery basis; only a listing from an off-site source as to
> the geographical location of named cemeteries. I also never saw any
> information for marriages. For Vital Records, I find it regrettable that
> a reader would be provided only the telephone number and mailing address
> for the County offices; volunteers generally find this one of the first
> items on the action list of things to get up and available for Internet
> access. Priorities, evidently, thus differ from county-to-county, and are
> not standard.
>
> I do not need or desire a reply from you on this submission. I only offer
> it as information if you are sincere in your outlook in how to better
> serve the viewing public. Whether or not I am individually satisfied or
> not is not the point. The point is others will in my judgement, based on
> experince in serving the public, be better served with a standardized
> menu, developed and approved by a trained librarian or a group of
> librarians. All I can close with is by saying the Pike County county
> co-ordinator has done a comparatively beautiful job in setting up an
> organized information framework, including an easily read table of
> contents, to build upon for which all other counties w/b wise to follow.
>
> Good luck in your new responsibilities.}
>
>
> ==== OHGEN Mailing List ====
> OHGenWeb Project
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohgenweb/freecensus.html
>
Sandy,
I had originally trashed this e-mail after reading a few sentences because
of the tone. It has raised such an uproar, that I retrieved it and read
through it.
Please notify your correspondent:
1. If he will provide a template in valid HTML or CSS, I would consider
using it.
2. If he will provide accurate information about Madison county in valid
HTML, I will upload it.
3. If he will foot the bill for our local librarians (who are just one
step above volunteers) to do this work for him, I will be glad to ask
them.
If not, then his e-mail belongs back in the trash bin.
Dale Grimm
Madison County CC
> Hi Group! Hope this email finds you well!
>
> I received this email this morning from an OHGenWeb researcher and I
> would like to share this with you all. I think this is something we
> should all be aware of and think about when we review our county pages
> and links! When the writer of this email talks about Pike counties table
> of contents he is talking about this list:
> Pike County Email List
> Ahnentafel Charts
> Articles and Stories
> Bible Records
> Biographies
> Birth Records
> Cemeteries
> Censuses
> Church Records
> Courthouse Information
> Death Information
> Descendancies
> Family Sites
> History
> Immigration Records
> Land Records
> Locations
> Maps
> Marriage Records
> Military History
> Miscellaneous Records
> Obituaries and Notices
> Pictures and Photographs
> Pike County and Lower Scioto Valley Reunions
> Queries
> Research Help and Information
> Surnames
> Wills and Administrations
> Search Scioto.Org
> The Home Page
>
> This Pike county website belongs to Allen Richmond our previous state
> coordinator. It is a easily researched and understood layout for
> researchers.
>
> If you would like us to take a vote again on what should be included and
> how the table of contents page should be layed out for our county
> websites, please email me and we can do another vote. The last was in
> 1999.
>
> I would like to hear from each of you after you read this email!
>
> Sandy
> Your Ohio SC
>
>
> {Sandra:
>
> I know your Ohio county sites are produced by volunteers, and alot of
> hard work and time is involved. But......this from my experience in
> leadership does not preclude teamwork and being in unified step with one
> another in an effort to produce an easily understood and followed menu
> for content. The county co-ordinators now under your direction do not
> have a uniform presentation to researchers, and this means each
> researcher has to learn a new menu, if one even exists. A different and
> verying learning curve for virtually EVERY county in Ohio, with a few
> exceptions. The content within is also not uniform in terms of
> information I've just looked at XXXXXX County and find it is the work
> of perhaps an artist who has put this together and not of a disseminator
> of information. I would like to suggest you go to any professional
> librarian and work out a standard state-wide menu for table of contents
> for each county and REQUIRE all co-ordinators to get in step with YOUR
> program. Personally, I prefer what the Pike County co-ordinator has
> designed, but this is personal opinion, and not a request (but it is the
> best one there is, I think) . My request is for standardization of the
> web sites in terms of (1) organization and format and (2) hopefully
> content. I understand you are new to this position, so this is perhaps
> an opportunity for you to use your fresh start in improving the
> co-ordination and standardization of the product your fine hard working
> volunteers try to make available. I also understand computer
> programming skills vary and egos are involved, but as the co-ordinator
> hopefully you can lay it on the line that egos are not negotiable. When
> someone has invented a good wheel, you do not waste time trying to
> re-invent it, which is exactly what too many county co-ordinators in
> Ohio appear to have done Don't take my opinion as fact. Let the
> librarians guide you to a STANDARDIZATION that all can live and work
> with, then you oversee accordingly. As of now, there is no appearant
> co-ordination, but each county co-ordinator is on their own. That's my
> beef. The older one's eyes become the more challenging it is for them
> all to pick up what should be quick reads and finds, and by not having a
> standard menu for table of contents at each county only make people read
> and re-read, often several times, before they can decide if what they
> are looking for really exists. As it is, I never did find in Marion
> County whether or not they had transcriptions of tombstones on a
> cemetery-by-cemetery basis; only a listing from an off-site source as
> to the geographical location of named cemeteries. I also never saw any
> information for marriages. For Vital Records, I find it regrettable
> that a reader would be provided only the telephone number and mailing
> address for the County offices; volunteers generally find this one of
> the first items on the action list of things to get up and available for
> Internet access. Priorities, evidently, thus differ from
> county-to-county, and are not standard.
>
> I do not need or desire a reply from you on this submission. I only
> offer it as information if you are sincere in your outlook in how to
> better serve the viewing public. Whether or not I am individually
> satisfied or not is not the point. The point is others will in my
> judgement, based on experince in serving the public, be better served
> with a standardized menu, developed and approved by a trained librarian
> or a group of librarians. All I can close with is by saying the Pike
> County county co-ordinator has done a comparatively beautiful job in
> setting up an organized information framework, including an easily read
> table of contents, to build upon for which all other counties w/b wise
> to follow.
>
> Good luck in your new responsibilities.}
>
>
> ==== OHGEN Mailing List ====
> OHGenWeb Project
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohgenweb/freecensus.html
>
Here are my two bits on this persons point of view:
It is only a point of view and not a directive for a call to arms for
all of us county coordinators. He makes some valid points but it reads
to me more like a wish list. There is no way we are all going to come to
have a unified scheme and I for one wouldn't want one. I enjoy seeing
the diversity between the different counties and although there are many
that need some work I know what a tough time it is getting content and
also having the time to work on a site and also juggle all the rest of
the eggs in one's basket. We are also not all at the same level when it
comes to programming skills. Discussion on the subject is healthy and
serves to better the overall project but I don't think we need to
address all of his concerns. Things seem to be working just fine for the
most part and I'm sure if a county was having problems, the coordinator
would be hearing about it.
I know from the feedback that I get on my own site the main concern is
lack of content. I even had one person trash the entire state for not
providing more online databases like those available in Illinois. I
happen to admin a county that has a very good genealogy society who have
put together many fine publications that cover most of the sources
needed for research. Since these are all copyrighted sources and I
cannot publish them and the genealogy society is dependent on them for
revenue, I am forced to rely on contributions and things I can gather
from public domain sources. After you post the obligatory links to
county resources, archives and related web sites, and include what
public domain sources you can find, there is little else you can do
except hope and pray that the requests you make for contributions bear
fruit.
The author of this message does not know all the things we have to deal
with as every county is different and has different sources available,
just like every coordinator is different. Let's celebrate our diversity
and not worry about what one person's wish list is. If you can take some
of his suggestions and apply it to your own county site, great, if not,
do the best you can!!!
Denny Shirer - drdx(a)neo.rr.com - Canton, OH
Shirer Family Genealogy -
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mysong
Muskingum County, OHGenWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohmuskin/
Sandra Quinn wrote:
> Hi Group! Hope this email finds you well!
>
> I received this email this morning from an OHGenWeb researcher and I
> would like to share this with you all. I think this is something we
> should all be aware of and think about when we review our county pages
> and links! When the writer of this email talks about Pike counties table
> of contents he is talking about this list:
> snip
If there are problems with particular web sites, I think it would be far more useful and educational to use the "carrot" approach rather than the "straitjacket" or "stick" approach.
Sandra, I believe your plan to showcase particular OHGenWeb sites once a quarter will give many of us ideas that we can take back to improve our own sites, without backing us into a corner to force changes.
Scott
Guernsey Co.
On Monday, May 2, 2005 1:27 PM MDT, Sandra Quinn <sandra_quinn(a)alltel.net> wrote:
>Hi Group! Hope this email finds you well!
>
>I received this email this morning from an OHGenWeb researcher and I
>would like to share this with you all. I think this is something we
>should all be aware of and think about when we review our county pages
>and links! When the writer of this email talks about Pike counties table
>of contents he is talking about this list:
I completely agree with what everyone has said thus far. I'd hate to see
the counties cloned. I enjoy seeing how differenty everyone has their sites
laid out. Granted some are better than others, but that's to be expected.
If we had to follow strict rules on how the sites needed to flow, it would
take all the fun out it (for me anyway). I too have gotten
questions/comments before about how to find an item that was on my site, but
the researcher somehow missed. Some people just want their research handed
to them and don't want to do the actual "digging" themselves.
Tina
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>To USGenWeb Project Members -
>
>**Please forward to all USGenWeb Lists**
>
>The USGenWeb Election Committee is in need of
>temporary helpers for the upcoming National Elections,
>for a period of approximately 12 weeks beginning May,
>2005, continuing through the completion of the
>USGenWeb Project National elections.
>
>Responsibilities include assisting with nominations,
>and handling bounced email addresses. Volunteers will
>be required to be responsive to email, check email
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>
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I believe that one of the strengths of the USGenWeb project as a
whole is its diversity. Just as each county and state has its own
history and 'flavor', I think each site should be unique, as well.
Even *if* I thought that having uniformity of design was the way to
go, finding 88 people who agree on one design would be nigh
impossible. Forcing a design on unwilling volunteers would lose the
project some very dedicated people.
Just my $0.02. ;)
-Stacy
---
CC, Perry County, Ohio. http://www.hockinggen.com/perry
On May 2, 2005, at 3:27 PM, Sandra Quinn wrote:
> Hi Group! Hope this email finds you well!
>
> I received this email this morning from an OHGenWeb researcher and
> I would like to share this with you all. I think this is something
> we should all be aware of and think about when we review our county
> pages and links! When the writer of this email talks about Pike
> counties table of contents he is talking about this list:
>
The responses are really good, lets keep them coming.
So far we have heard from 18 CC's. 44 voted in the last election so we
have quite a few more voices to hear.
Thanks!
Sandy
OHGenWeb SC
I may be a newbie as far as the Ohio Genweb site is concerned but I have
been around in the genealogy work over 20 years and I have never read such
demands from anyone researching their roots which leads me to believe this is
either a very disturbed person or someone who is making mole hills into mountains
to cause friction and disagreements within. I have visited just about every
county website on the Ohio Genweb site and have found them all to be very
informative and unique as is every county history. How each county is done
really isnt the issue but getting the information to the community and people
researching is the common goal. The old saying of, "If it isnt broken why fix it"
comes to mind and in my opinion things have worked rather well the way they
are and it shoudl be left at that.
Just my opinion
Danice Ryan
Jefferson County
Bolderdash!!!!!!!!!!!! this fellow needs a life, what else can I say, personally I enjoy the e-mails and request for assistance I receive. Have not had one negative to my website. Yet!!!!!, like I said before "you can make some of the people happy some of the time but you can't make all of the people happy all the time" We all realize volunteers are not jumping out of the woodwork, I believe we have a wonderful group at the present time doing a wonderful job with their websites, Nola Licking County CC
At 03:27 PM 5/2/2005 -0400, Sandra Quinn wrote:
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I will not do the original e-mailer the honor of repeating his
various suggestions. I have been with the USGenWeb project since mid 1996
and there has never been more than about 5 things that are required to be
on a county site. As others may point out, each county site is potentially
maintained by a separate VOLUNTEER and was originally supposed to reflect
the local flavor of each county. To require them to all look the same or
similar is ludicrous. That is why I do not think the OHGenWeb site should
be a near copy of some other state's site.
Each volunteer also has varying amounts of time to devote to his
site(s). Some people probably try to make a career out of maintaining
their site while others feel that as long as they provide all the required
information and add a few extras as they have time, that is OK. Trying to
add a number of new requirements to the workload of maintaining a site will
result in losing some of the county coordinators.
If an individual is not providing generally expected information
on his site, the visitors to the site will let him know about it or he will
keep seeing the same kinds of requests for information coming from many
different visitors.
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Charles R. Weese, 4012 Pardee Rd., Stow, Ohio 44224
See http://web.raex.com/~cweese/weese/
and http://web.raex.com/~cweese/vance/ for my family info.
I maintain the following USGenWeb county sites:
Gallia County Ohio at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohgallia/gallia.htm
Jackson County Ohio at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohjackso/jackson.htm
Vinton County Ohio at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohvinton/vinton.htm