Please forward to me your response to my inquiry about the county. I'm not in the
habit of replacing CCs who respond to me.
Thanks.
Denise Wells
On Dec 8, 2014, at 7:14 AM, "Janet Moore"
<janetmoore(a)prodigy.net> wrote:
Correction please! The Spartanburg County url is:
http://www.spartasc.com/.
I have communicated with everyone that I wanted to keep Spartanburg County
and the url has not changed. I pay for the domain name and hosting myself.
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Subject: [SCGENWEB] SCGenWeb sites and CCs
I am very excited to make the following announcements for SCGenWeb!
As you may or may not be aware, your previous State Coordinator, Victoria
Proctor, has had some difficulties and unable to function regularly as your
SC. I know that she has been with your state for a very long time and it is
so unfortunate that she has had to curtail many of her duties as the SC for
South Carolina. We pray for her quick recovery and abilities to stay with
South Carolina as the CC for three of the counties. Victoria has requested
to retain the counties of: Dillon, Marion and Marlboro. We are glad she is
staying with South Carolina as she has done some very amazing things through
the years and I know that all of you are grateful for all she has
accomplished over this time period.
At the present time, I am the Acting State Coordinator. Also joining us is
a familiar face in USGenWeb and who has also acted for several years as the
National Webmaster for USGenWeb, Jeff Kemp. Jeff has adopted three South
Carolina counties and does an absolutely amazing job on everything he
tackles. We are very fortunate that he has an immense interest in South
Carolina. He will also act as your new Assistant State Coordinator.
So, now, please take a few minutes to view your new state page for
SCGenWeb:
www.scgenweb.org It is a great look and easy to navigate.
If you have items you would like to donate to the state page, please just
send them to Jeff.
CAROLYN: I would appreciate if you would add me as a co-admin for the SC
mail list. Please also note the email addresses listed as CCs to this
email. If those have not yet been added to the mail list subscribers,
please add them.
Now that the state is moving forward, please note the following changes that
you should be making to your counties as quickly as possible. We will be
reviewing all active county sites to be sure that these changes have been
made to continue the progress for SC:
1. Your new state page is now located at:
www.scgenweb.org. The previous
state site has been replaced at the National Site.
2. All sites in SCGenWeb need to change your logo to the what is found
at:
http://www.scgenweb.org/sc_logos.html. That logo will need to be
linked to the new SCGenWeb site at:
http://www.scgenweb.org. Please remove
all other SC logos at this time.
3. All sites in the SCGenWeb need to update your copyright year to at least
2014, and please add a "Last Updated" date to your pages. This is very
important since over the years the Advisory Board has received many
complaints about the sites being terribly outdated, no one responding to
email inquiries about counties, etc. We want to turn all of that around and
we are off to a good start.
4. The following counties have had URL changes and, if your county has a
link to one of them, please update that link as follows:
----- Laurens County - now located at:
http://www.lhtornow.com/scgw/laurens/
----- Spartanburg County - now located at:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~scsusgw/
----- SCGenWeb State website - now located at:
http://www.scgenweb.org/
5. Other counties have been adopted but not yet reflect the new pages:
Cherokee (new site online), Greenville (new site online), Newberry (being
revised), Calhoun (work in progress), and Orangeburg (work in progress).
6. Emails were sent out to all prior CCs for counties in the state.
Almost all of them were not responded to or their emails bounced. Counties
that have not been updated in years are now available for adoption. Some
counties may have pending adoptions in progress as well. Should you know
someone who is interested in adopting a county in SCGenWeb, we are now
developing a new application form that will be required of any new CC.
This will help have people adopt counties in which they have connections
instead of just adopting a county because someone will think that's cool to
have that county. SOME exceptions may be made, but that will be fairly
unlikely. I find that people who adopt a county because they have a
connection to it in some way makes that person more interested in that
location.
Personally, I hope you all realize that SCGenWeb can become an absolutely
gorgeous representation of work in the USGenWeb. The state has such rich
history and interesting events and I truly want it to reflect the love and
caring that each of you have for your counties. I have seen some very
remarkable work in this state and truly wish for it to continue.
One of my commitments when running for National Coordinator was to market
this wonderful Project out in the world to get more people interested in
using OUR project for their research, or to join to work on a new county or
interest in USGenWeb. Unfortunately, I cannot market something like I would
like to unless and until this Projects gets a thorough upgrade. We had to
do the same thing in MNGenWeb, and it is coming along nicely. That state
has 87 counties and half of them were not being attended to, almost the same
thing as here in SCGenWeb. I am truly excited for what is possible for both
of your states, as well as the entire Project. But it needs some more spit
polish, so-to-speak, and that is what it is getting, little by little.
Please continue your great work with your current counties. I'm excitedly
looking forward to our updated SCGenWeb.
Any and all questions can be directed to me ncusgenweb(a)gmail.com or to Jeff
at msgwsc(a)gmail.com or at kemp(a)netnitco.com unless he provides us with a new
email for South Carolina.
Also, as stated above, please note that we will be visiting county sites
soon to check on the changes requested above. We hope you will enjoy
working in the new SCGenWeb. Thanks so much.
Denise Wells
National Coordinator
The USGenWeb Project
www.usgenweb.org
USGenWeb Advisory Board Agenda
http://usgenweb.org/agenda2.shtml
(Agenda to be updated shortly)
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