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Stafford County, VAGenWeb has moved. The new URL is: http://www.kykinfolk.com/stafford/
Still doing some fine tuning but everything survived remarkably well in the move <g>
Suzanne Shephard
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From: "Tina S. Vickery" <tsvickery(a)gmail.com>
To: <usgenweb-discuss(a)rootsweb.com>; <usgenweb-all(a)rootsweb.com>;
<board(a)rootsweb.com>; <state-coord(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 2:45 PM
Subject: [STATE-COORD] Policy Statement from the USGenWeb Project
AdvisoryBoard
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It has come to the Advisory Board's attention that there
are some issues, that we feel need to be addressed
Project-wide.
It is our very strong desire that volunteers, who have
maintained sites hosted by RootsWeb but who have chosen
new hosts be gracious and polite to RootsWeb.
If you choose to leave RootsWeb now, please remember that
it has been gracious to and supportive of the USGenWeb
Project. The Advisory Board strongly objects to any of our
members leaving rude or inflammatory messages on vacated
sites.
The Bylaws for USGenWeb state that volunteers have the
right to choose the server on which their pages are
placed. State Coordinators do not have the right to
threaten delinking or any other penalty if their
volunteers stay with or leave RootsWeb or any other
server.
Tina Vickery
National Coordinator
USGenWeb Project
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----- Original Message -----
Forwarded from David Graham, Sr. Product
Manager RootsWeb.com. Further questions and concerns from
USGenWeb Project members who host sites on TGN/RW are
being gathered and will be communicated to David to
address. Thank you all for continuing to share your
questions and concerns with the Advisory Board.
Tina Vickery
National Coordinator
USGenWeb Project
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David,
We have the following questions from across the Project.
I am certain there will be more to follow:
1. Are you aware of how many states and counties have
already moved off RootsWeb? Does Rootsweb and Ancestry
understand the inevitable consequences of this latest
announcement?
I don't have a specific count of state and county pages
that have moved off of RootsWeb at this time. We do
recognize that some may choose to be hosted elsewhere due
to this announcement, but we are truly working to ensure
that this change does not affect the RootsWeb online
experience at all. It should not change the experience of
being hosted on RootsWeb.
2. Does this mean Ancestry will include the Rootsweb
sites in their Search on Ancestry, either by subscription
free and/or both?
There is no change in what is surfaced in Ancestry's
search due to this change. The pages and data on RootsWeb
will continue to be part of the separate, free RootsWeb
online experience. There is no plan to require a
subscription to access user content from RootsWeb.
3. How will this effect search engines and counters, etc
that are in use our existing www.rootsweb.com/~xxyyyyyyy/
URL's?
People should continue to be able to find your pages when
using search engines. Right now the search engines will
have listings for the old RootsWeb URLs, and it will take
a while for the new URLs to show up in search engines.
Since we will be redirecting members to the new URLs,
though, they will still be able to access the pages
regardless of what links come up through the search
engines.
As far as impact on page counters, I don't think there
will be an impact, but I will need to verify with our
technical experts and get back to you on that.
4. Are the mailing lists affected by this? Either the
mailing lists administered by the USGenWeb Project
Advisory Board or the many county and other lists
maintained coincidently by USGenWeb Project volunteers?
This change should not affect mailing lists in any way.
If we find that this is not the case, we will make sure to
let you know.
Tina Vickery
National Coordinator
USGenWeb Project
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In the previous email I failed to include the urls:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~vacharlo/indexcha.htmhttp://www.rootsweb.com/~valunenb/http://www.rootsweb.com/~vameckle/index.htm
Freddie, I would like to move the sites of the 3 Virginia counties I host
to vagenweb.org. They are:
Charlotte County
Lunenburg County
Mecklenburg County
Forward to me any instructions I might need.
Jo Lee Spears
At 06:50 PM 3/16/2008, you wrote:
>With the kind permission of Nola Duffy we now have available, as
>an option, hosting our county/city websites in her webspace with
>our vagenweb.org domain name
>
>I'll shortly be moving Bedford & Carroll Co, so they'll have the
>URLs of www.vagenweb.org/bedford/ and www.vagenweb.org/carroll
>
>Any CC who wishes space, drop me an email
>
>The drawbacks if you move from rootsweb, would be you lose the
>mailmerge capability, guestbooks, etc.
>
>If your's is a long named county, let me know how you'd like to
>shorten it.
>There are three options for passwords.
> 1) The computer can generate a random name with all kinds of
>special characters, probably (ugh)
> 2) I can make up one, based on the county name (default)
> 3) You can specify what you'd like it to be (within reason)
><grin>
>
>Again, I'd like to say, I don't believe there is any NEED to move
>counties from rootsweb, .. but that's only my opinion.
>
>Regards,
>Freddie S.
>
>
>
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New Kent County VAGenWeb pages have moved to
http://www.vagenweb.org/newkent/
If you have a link to New Kent County, please change it.
I think I've corrected all the links on the site but will continue to check
all the pages today.
Christine Wertin
Greetings,
Bedford Co VAGenWeb pages have moved to
http://www.vagenweb.org/bedford/
If you have a link to Bedford, You'll need to change it.
Regards,
Freddie S.
Are you moving the State pages too? Apologies if you've already answered
this question.
Suzanne
Stafford Co
----- Original Message -----
From: "Freddie Spradlin" <fspradlin(a)earthlink.net>
To: <VAGEN(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 7:50 PM
Subject: [VAGEN] webspace at vagenweb.org
> With the kind permission of Nola Duffy we now have available, as
> an option, hosting our county/city websites in her webspace with
> our vagenweb.org domain name
>
> I'll shortly be moving Bedford & Carroll Co, so they'll have the
> URLs of www.vagenweb.org/bedford/ and www.vagenweb.org/carroll
>
> Any CC who wishes space, drop me an email
>
> The drawbacks if you move from rootsweb, would be you lose the
> mailmerge capability, guestbooks, etc.
>
> If your's is a long named county, let me know how you'd like to
> shorten it.
> There are three options for passwords.
> 1) The computer can generate a random name with all kinds of
> special characters, probably (ugh)
> 2) I can make up one, based on the county name (default)
> 3) You can specify what you'd like it to be (within reason)
> <grin>
>
> Again, I'd like to say, I don't believe there is any NEED to move
> counties from rootsweb, .. but that's only my opinion.
>
> Regards,
> Freddie S.
>
>
>
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> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to
> VAGEN-request(a)rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes
> in the subject and the body of the message
With the kind permission of Nola Duffy we now have available, as
an option, hosting our county/city websites in her webspace with
our vagenweb.org domain name
I'll shortly be moving Bedford & Carroll Co, so they'll have the
URLs of www.vagenweb.org/bedford/ and www.vagenweb.org/carroll
Any CC who wishes space, drop me an email
The drawbacks if you move from rootsweb, would be you lose the
mailmerge capability, guestbooks, etc.
If your's is a long named county, let me know how you'd like to
shorten it.
There are three options for passwords.
1) The computer can generate a random name with all kinds of
special characters, probably (ugh)
2) I can make up one, based on the county name (default)
3) You can specify what you'd like it to be (within reason)
<grin>
Again, I'd like to say, I don't believe there is any NEED to move
counties from rootsweb, .. but that's only my opinion.
Regards,
Freddie S.
Nola, I'm so glad to know that we'll have another association to share! You
should be nominated for sainthood after all you have done for me and other
NCGenWeb CC's this past week. I've thought about branching into VAGenWeb at
various times over the past year, and I decided to go ahead and take the
plunge, as USGenWeb has been on my mind a lot these few days!
Katherine
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"Pretty quiet" sounds wonderful.
I will take the liberty of telling the group that I have deep Virginia
roots, as my mother grew up there and returned there when she was widowed. She
grew up in "Southside Virginia." My brother lives in Roanoke. I graduated
from Hollins, and one of my sons graduated from VMI. My daughter lives in
Fairfax and works in Alexandria.
A few of my mother's ancestral lines go back to the early years of
Jamestown, and my husband and I visited that area for their 400th anniversary last
year. I try to attend all major VGS conferences at the LOV. I'll take the
second part of Barbara Vines Little's course on VA research at Samford's IGHR
this June, after taking the first part last year.
Katherine Benbow
County Coordinator, Guilford County NCGenWeb
_http://www.ncgenweb.us/guilford/_
(http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncguilfo/index.html)
County Coordinator, Cabarrus County NCGenWeb
_http://www.rootsweb.com/~nccabarr/_ (http://www.rootsweb.com/~nccabarr/)
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Greetings,
I'd like to welcome Katherine Benbow to our group.
She is currently a CC in NCGenWeb, and is taking over Charles
City Co VAGenWeb from Linda Lewis.
Katherine, we're normally a pretty quiet bunch, but feel free to
ask the list for help on anything.
Freddie S.
I don't mean to be paranoid here (I've never used the Rootsweb service for
my own page(s)), but it would seem to me that the coding required for the
new banner (on the server side) would make it easier for them to implement
further changes in the future (with or without prior warning).
I think that it's important for a volunteer organization to maintain the
appearance of independence from a for-profit business. I think that
contributors feel better about contributing information/data to a
grass-roots group than to a business that may be able to make a profit on
their work and research. While I don't mind people benefiting from the
work I (and others) have done, I don't necessarily feel the same way about
a business.
Dennis Stanley
On Sun, March 16, 2008 6:56 am, Alice Warner wrote:
> I certainly didn't want to propagate hysteria specifically myself, I was
> curious about the silence. Glad people have at least been following what's
> going on.
>
> Alice
I'm waiting to see where everyone else is going ( that means you Freddie)
and like a lemming I'm right behind you. I'm not adding anything manually to
each and every page so I'm ready to move.
Vic
Wise & Scott Co.
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Me to, if it will be a simple move, and what is offered at the VAGENWEB is
comparable to what we already have.
Rena
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christine" <chriswertin(a)yahoo.com>
To: <vagen(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 12:01 AM
Subject: Re: [VAGEN] Rootsweb/TGN
> The silence on my part is only because I was trying to figure out where I
> would be able to move the New Kent County site. I would prefer to go
> where
> you go Freddie. So please let me know when and how.
>
> Christine
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vagen-bounces(a)rootsweb.com [mailto:vagen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On
> Behalf Of Freddie Spradlin
> Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 8:26 PM
> To: vagen(a)rootsweb.com
> Subject: Re: [VAGEN] Rootsweb/TGN
>
> I've wonder about the silence myself. ...
>
> This message is NOT a suggestion that anyone should feel they ought to
> move
> their pages. Indeed, until recently, I had no intention of moving
> anything.
>
> I intended on sticking it out with rootsweb to see what the "banner" was
> REALLY going to require, and believed I could probably live with it..
> Then the URL change message came out & I probably over-reacted ...
>
> ANYWAY, I moved my WVGenWeb county to the new wvgenweb.org domain
>
> And I'm currently moving the VAGenWeb homepage to the server Nola Duffy
> manages.
> Once the new domain address propogates across the net, She/We are going to
> be able to offer webspace for any VA county host, which will have a URL of
> www.vagenweb.org/countyname ....
>
> I'll be moving Bedford & Carroll Co to that server as well, just as soon
> as
> the DNS change is complete.
>
> I say again, THIS IS NOT a suggesion that anyone else should
> over-react like I did <grin>
>
> Freddie S.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> Has anyone considered our state pages moving for VAGenweb? Most states
> have
> at least discussed the option, so I'm a little curious why we've
> completely
> ignored the topic... unless it's been discussed while I'm not around.
>
> Alice
>
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Has anyone considered our state pages moving for VAGenweb? Most states have
at least discussed the option, so I'm a little curious why we've completely
ignored the topic... unless it's been discussed while I'm not around.
Alice
I've wonder about the silence myself. ...
This message is NOT a suggestion that anyone should feel they
ought to move their pages. Indeed, until recently, I had no
intention of moving anything.
I intended on sticking it out with rootsweb to see what the
"banner" was REALLY going to require, and believed I could
probably live with it..
Then the URL change message came out & I probably over-reacted
...
ANYWAY, I moved my WVGenWeb county to the new wvgenweb.org domain
And I'm currently moving the VAGenWeb homepage to the server Nola
Duffy manages.
Once the new domain address propogates across the net, She/We are
going to be able to offer webspace for any VA county host, which
will have a URL of www.vagenweb.org/countyname ....
I'll be moving Bedford & Carroll Co to that server as well, just
as soon as the DNS change is complete.
I say again, THIS IS NOT a suggesion that anyone else should
over-react like I did <grin>
Freddie S.
----- Original Message -----
Has anyone considered our state pages moving for VAGenweb? Most
states have
at least discussed the option, so I'm a little curious why we've
completely
ignored the topic... unless it's been discussed while I'm not
around.
Alice
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