Hi all,
I don't know if you are interested this or not. It's the first I ever heard
of it and it's been around since 96? You can make your own decision about
it.
Nate
Nathan Zipfel
PaGenWeb Project State Coordinator
http://www.pa-roots.com/pagenweb
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 11:18:02 -0500
To: nate(a)pa-roots.com
From: Tina Hursh <ribbit(a)clubnet.isl.net>
Subject: PA Biographies Project
Hello,
My name is Tina Hursh and I am the state coordinator for the PA Biographes
Project. I would like to know if you could please add a link to your site
and also if you could please pass this information on to your county
coordinators?
The Biographies project was started in the spring of 1997 by Jeff
Murphy, the same man who started USGenWeb (after starting KYGenWeb).
However, the project is not officially a part of USGenWeb. At the time the
Biographies project began there were no county resource pages, GenConnect
pages, etc. and the intent was to provide a place where old county history
book biographies could be stored online free for researchers who didn't
have
access to those books. The project was set up in essentially the same
manner
as GenWeb with state and county coordinators and when it first started
the
GenWeb coordinators were approached to help via mailing lists. In the
spring of '97 there were still a large number of GenWeb counties unadopted
and many of the coordinators on board were newbies who were struggling to
get the basics online. For those reasons many Biographies counties and
states did not get adopted.
Our desire is to work with GenWeb and not as a rival. I think that if we
work together we can increase the exposure of both projects and it can only
be beneficial to all of us.
Please take a look at my site at:
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Pennsylvania/pamnpg.html
As you can see, we are in need of county coordinators and biographies.
If you have any questions feel free to ask me, or you can also ask Deb
Murray <debmurray(a)worldnet.isl.net> as she is the US Biographies
Coordinator.
Thanks,
Tina Hursh
ribbit(a)clubnet.isl.net
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