At 18:53 10/27/98 EST, Nancy Sween wrote:
As with Alice's point about someone moving the Civil War information...
Before all accuse Alice of some nefarious deed <grin>, it was I who made
that comment when I replied to Alice's message.
So it seems a good
idea to me to maintain county-specific books and lists with the county it
applies to, and offer a copy to the Archives, if they want a copy.
The problem with this is not that the Civil War roster information I
complained about is not also available at my county page. It was actually
placed there first, then sent to a private (non-Rootsweb, non-archived)
list, 'stolen' by a list member, and sent without permission to the
Archives. It's bad enough the data was stolen, but now the county-specific
nature of those transcriptions has been lost as well.
Another problem is that the USGenWeb Archives search engine does NOT point
at my page first where there often is more information available. It only
points at the file in the Archives which turns out to be a dead end as far
as finding further information is concerned. Once found in the Archives
with no clue to which county might be consulted for more data, where next
can they look? Wasn't part of the reason for county TOCs to point browsers
at the county page where more information might be found? And if I send
browsers to my county's TOC so they can see the other information there, why
aren't those rosters indexed so they can find their ancestors' names?
I'm sure county histories will be placed in their appropriate county
Archives' TOC. I'm only requesting that index entries for Military Roster
information KNOWN to apply to a specific county be placed in that county's
TOC as well. Pretty please?
Thanks.
Wally Garchow
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