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Subject: September USGenWebNEWS
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:44:41 -0500
From: Sharon Rhodes <sharon(a)MARSHALLNET.COM>
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*The USGenWeb Project
/N E W S/
Volume 2, Number 5
September 2005*
*SPECIAL PROJECTS REPRESENTATIVE ELECTION*
*/Tina Vickery - EC Chair/*
The Election Committee has been directed by the Advisory Board to
conduct a Special Election to fill the seat of Special Projects
Representative.
http://www.usgwelections.org/register1.asp The
nomination period will be September 14, 2005 - September 21, 2005.
*RESOURCES FOR THOSE AFFECTED BY KATRINA*
/*Ellen Pack - Recording Secretary, SC MSGenWeb*/
"MSGenWeb has prepared a regularly updated list of online resources for
families and friends affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Katrina Survivor and Family Online Lists and Message Boards
http://www.rootsweb.com/~msgenweb/survivors.htm
To add a resource or report a broken link, please contact Ellen Pack.
e.j.pack(a)natchezbelle.org
All USGenWeb volunteers are welcome to link to the page, and to forward
the URL to any interested person.
*EDITOR'S NOTE*
Ellen's note above is very modest. Her resource has helped families
reunite. Ellen is very good at jumping in where there is a need and
finding a solution. USGenWeb volunteers truly are the very best!!!
On a more somber note USGenWeb has volunteers who live in the area
affected by Katrina. I have been asked not to list them for their
privacy and to ask others not to email them at this time. Please keep
them in your thoughts and prayers.
*Help save records damaged by hurricane Katrina and stress the
importance of digital records to your local societies.*
*/Pam Reid - TS Project Coordinator/*
People were not the only "victims" of Katrina. Historical documents,
records, photographs, artifacts have been damaged or lost. Cemeteries
have been damaged and mausoleums displaced/. MORE:
/http://usgenweb.org/newsletter/NL-09-2005.shtml#katrina
*WELCOME TO OUR NEW NC*
/*Linda Haas Davenport - NC*/
First I would like to thank everyone who took the time to participate in
the annual election. The representatives you voted for are seated and we
are working hard to get organized and under way. This term I have asked
the Advisory Board to try a different way of meeting. /MORE:
/http://usgenweb.org/newsletter/NL-09-2005.shtml#NC
*GOOD-BYE FROM SHARI*
/*Shari Handley - Former NC*/
As my term of office as your National Coordinator comes to an end, I'd
like to wish the new NC, Linda Haas Davenport, all the best in the
coming term. I am confident that, with her abilities and her experience,
Linda will guide the project in an even-handed and resourceful way
throughout the next year. I know the Project is in good hands as I turn
my full attention back to the state and county sites that I love in
MDGenWeb and DEGenWeb. It has been an honor to serve you over the past
year, USGenWeb. During my term, I have been continually amazed at what
you all are able to accomplish through generosity with your time and
talents. I know that the love of family history and the desire to help
others that has made us THE preeminent volunteer genealogy project will
carry The USGenWeb Project into a robust and exciting future.
*AN INTRODUCTION FROM MIKE ST. CLAIR*
/*Mike St. Clair - Advisory Committee Representative at Large*/
When the newsletter editor invited me to introduce myself to the project
as the new Representative at Large, I jumped at the chance. You see,
one of the things that I think could be most helpful in making the
project more successful is a little more communication from the
membership to other members and to the project leadership and this will
give me the chance to beat that drum a little. /MORE:
/http://usgenweb.org/newsletter/NL-09-2005.shtml#StClair
*SEARCH ENGINE TIPS*
/*Mike Jarvis - Webmaster*/
As genealogists in today's high-tech world, the importance of using
search engines properly is ever increasing. With genealogy related web
sites making up a huge part of our World Wide Web, we would like to
share some search engine tips that perhaps a few you will find helpful.
There is much that could be written about this, but we will focus only
on a few tips that we find most helpful. We use [ and ] to indicate
terms that would be written in a search box. /MORE:
/http://usgenweb.org/newsletter/NL-09-2005.shtml#SearchTips
*DAILY UPLOADS*
/*Cyndie Enfinger - Special Projects*/
Want to know what files have been added and updated in the USGenWeb
Archives each day? The Daily Uploads Mailing List will keep you up-to-date.
To subscribe send an email to daily-uploads-l-request(a)rootsweb.com with
the word 'subscribe' in the subject line and body.
Since July 1, we have had almost 40,000 files added, an average of over
600 per day.
An archive of historical uploads is also available at:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/dailyuploads/
*SUCCESS OF GENRECORDS*
/*David Crosby - Archives Project Committee member; Tech consultant
Georgia GenWeb Archives; Atkinson Co., GA Archives File MGR*/
The Genrecords concept started in mid 2002. Genrecords is a free service
for the submission of Genealogy data provided for the Archives project
to submit data to Rootsweb. /MORE:
/http://usgenweb.org/newsletter/NL-09-2005.shtml#Genrecords
The views expressed in this newsletter are those of the contributors and
are not necessarily those of the USGenWeb Project .
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Editor: /Sharon Rhodes/
Copy Editor:/ Greta Thompson/
Contributors: /Tina Vickery, Ellen Pack, Pam Reid, Linda Haas Davenport,
Shari Handley, Mike St. Clair, Cyndie Enfinger, David Crosby/
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