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I really like the logo presented as well, and am putting right on the county
page. But if it had been a brown and white cow butt, well then it would have
been a much harder choice. (I like brown & whites from any direction). Rita -
Oconto County
Jan & Glenn wrote:
> Have seen that page - but - the logo is the pretty one which says bringing
> genealogy into the 21st Century???
>
> I'm gonna like that one!! However it does kind of clash with the cow
> butt.....
>
> Jan
>
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In a message dated 04/09/2000 12:47:44 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
cristian(a)netonecom.net writes:
<< The objective here is plain Jane - am I correct.
Removing all personality from the site so that we are all alike. >>
No, Jan, that is not the objective. You need not change anything on your
site. I am trying to work with people to make the logo the color and size
that would best suit what they have on their pages already.
If you would like to send me a pixel size you would prefer (i.e., 125x125,
150x150, etc.) and what color you would prefer (sending the actual color code
works best) I would be happy to customize the logo to your site.
Debbie Barrett
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wipierce/
Sorry Nance - didn't mean for you to come unglued over that comment - but as
I recall it - when this all started ---- MAK wanted us to all look alike.
And I did vote for a logo on the pages - just seems right - however I did
not see the one in question.
Have seen that page - but - the logo is the pretty one which says bringing
genealogy into the 21st Century???
I'm gonna like that one!! However it does kind of clash with the cow
butt.....
Jan
Some how I missed out on the new logo part. Where is it?
Can I view it now so that I will know what basic color, (or possibly remove
all color), I need to add to my pages. That way I can begin removing all
my muted backgrounds. The objective here is plain Jane - am I correct.
Removing all personality from the site so that we are all alike.
Thanks.
Jan
Hi everyone,
I want to thank Paula and Nance for tallying your votes on the motions
presented. They did a wonderful job! I, also, want to thank all of
you for participating in this process. The new logo was submitted by
Debbie Barrett, our Pierce County host. Over the next few days, Tim,
Kelly and I will be updating the State's pages to reflect the results
of the vote, and I will be asking all of you for input. We need to
work together on how to best implement these changes across the main
county pages. Kelly has been in contact with Debbie and they are
working together to present a "color series" of the logo, to present
to all of you. It is our desire to provide a version, of the logo, to
each of you that will compliment your main county page. Please
contact Debbie, <MrsGrinn(a)aol.com> or Kelly, <kellyj(a)snowcrest.net> if
you have any special requirements for your main county page.
Other questions will come up, and I will present them to you as we
launch "WIGenWeb Project - Bringing Genealogy into the 21st Century."
Tina
I just sent in a township for posting on the census project, but now I
find out that there are two. Who is what? Can anyone tell me how to
take the work off Excel and transfer it to a HTML page so I can just
post my work right to the site? Copy and Paste doesn't work with
<pre></pre>.. Rita - Oconto
I have been just reading some mail on the controversy taking place about
census records. I have just volunteered to do 1880 and 1870 census records
for my Marathon county. I already have the CD's and am anxious to get going.
I have asked for the template, but have not heard from Wayne about them. I
understand he is busy, but I am wondering if he is as confused as I am about
the problem.
I did not even know there were 2 census projects. Is this right? And one of
them has de-linked the other's pages?
I may rescind my offer, and just do them for my county page. I really don't
care for this kind of bickering. It seems to be easier to just place my
information on my county pages, and the heck with everyone else. At least I
will not unlink my pages!
I have also sent for the 1875 state cencus for Marathon and Lincoln counties.
I will do those for myself for sure!
Shelley
Web pages:
Marathon County WI - http://www.rootsweb.com/~wimarath
Lincoln County WI - http://www.rootsweb.com/~wilincol
Personal - http://members.aol.com/sdgreen715/index.html
Mailing Lists: WIMARATH-L and WILINCOL-L
>From my end, I am continuing to coordinate and upload census transcriptions
to the Archives Census Project for Wisconsin, as the State Census
Coordinator.
I offered to take over the coordination for WI for the CP --for continuity,
and was turned down. There isn't a whole lot I can do beyond that except
continue to upload to the Archives, and keep the tables of contents in
order. I am continuing to sign up volunteers. All of the transcriptions,
regardless of project end up pretty much in the same place anyway.
Kelly
Wisconsin Census:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/census/states/wisconsi/wisconsi.htm
Hi Rita,
I am a Mac user and agree with what Marsha said earlier. I would add one
more piece of advice. Whenever I send an attachment to a PC user
(whether an image or not) I send it "uncompressed" and "UUencoded" (as
opposed to BinHex, Base64, Apple Single and Apple Double). These are
options my email program (Claris Emailer) gives me. If she has the
option, UUencoding is the way to go.
Incidentally, if she sends a jpeg image, compression wouldn't shrink the
file significantly anyway since it is already "shrunk".
Dawn M. Knauft, CGRS
Coordinator, Dane Co. WiGenWeb
http://www.rootsweb.com/~widane
WiSearch, Professional Genealogical Research
http://www.wisearch.net
>I am getting scanned photos from a great lady for the Oconto County
>site, but I have an IBM compatable computer, and she has a Mac. I can't
>open the attachment - I use Netscape, can't save it to disc or hard
>drive. I use Soap (program) for photographs and it will take Mac and
>.sit, but how do I get it to the Soap?
Hi,
I am getting scanned photos from a great lady for the Oconto County
site, but I have an IBM compatable computer, and she has a Mac. I can't
open the attachment - I use Netscape, can't save it to disc or hard
drive. I use Soap (program) for photographs and it will take Mac and
.sit, but how do I get it to the Soap? Her last attempt said:
Rita:
I scanned it in photoshop and saved it as a tiff in IBM PC format,
forgot
I could do the IBM thing with my mac, latest thing, that was why I got
it! If it is a .sit when you get it, I am using Drop Stuff and Stuffit
Expander should expand it for you. Hope this works!
Kathy
page 3 pecor.SIT
Name:
page 3 pecor.SIT
Type:
Macintosh BinHex Archive
(application/mac-binhex40)
Thanks to all for their help with my question on how to handle requests for
people who are not related to the questioner. Sometimes in our role as
people-who help-people we take on more than we should. You helped me to
remember the purpose of our websites. It was as simple as that.
Bob
The voting is officially over. (You can see original motions below)
Motion 1 - 30-Yes 0-No
Motion 2 - 25-Yes 7-No
Logo #1 - 10
Logo #2 - 14
1 vote for Both
Thank you all for voting.
Paula and Nance
>From: WIGenWebProject(a)aol.com
>To: WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
>Subject: [WIGEN-L] WI-00001 and WI-00002 vote.
>Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 01:24:18 EST
>
>Good morning everyone,
>
>I have asked Nance Sampson, nsampson(a)spacestar.net, and Paula Vaughn
>pajolova(a)hotmail.com to count the votes on the motions, and cross
>check each others tallies and report back to the list the results at
>the end of the voting period. Tim and I have provided them with a
>list of all voters. This list was derived from the recent roll call
>and the county page list.
>
>Please respond to directly to Nance and Paula at their e-mail
>addresses stated above, and *not* to the list. I want each volunteer
>to vote with the confidence and assurance that their vote will be
>private. Each individual will have one vote, (regardless of the
>number of counties), and simple majority of the those voting will
>rule. The logos being voted upon can be found at
>http://www.rootsweb.com/~wigenweb/logo-sub.html
>
>Voting will end on Wednesday, April 5, 2000, 9 PM EST.
>
>mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net,pajolova@hotmail.com
>
>Tina
>
>The motions:
>
>WI-00001 - "Amendment of the current guidelines/bylaws: I make a
>motion that WIGenWeb amends the current guidelines (By-Laws), to
>require a majority vote for modification, whether it be an addition or
>deletion."
>
>Yes
>No
>
>WI-00002 - Designation of Logo for the WIGenWeb Project: "I make a
>motion that the WIGenWeb project designate a color series of logos or
>banners to identify the WIGenWeb Project, and such design will be
>mandatory on the MAIN page of each WI County belonging to WIGenWeb."
>
>Yes
>No
>
>If yes, http://www.rootsweb.com/~wigenweb/logo-sub.html
>
>Original WIGenWeb Project Logo
>
>New Submission
>
>
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>http://www.usgennet.org/~ahwiashl/index.html
>
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Last chance to vote! Voting ends today at 9:00 p.m. EST.
Paula and Nance
>From: WIGenWebProject(a)aol.com
>To: WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
>Subject: [WIGEN-L] WI-00001 and WI-00002 vote.
>Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 01:24:18 EST
>
>Good morning everyone,
>
>I have asked Nance Sampson, nsampson(a)spacestar.net, and Paula Vaughn
>pajolova(a)hotmail.com to count the votes on the motions, and cross
>check each others tallies and report back to the list the results at
>the end of the voting period. Tim and I have provided them with a
>list of all voters. This list was derived from the recent roll call
>and the county page list.
>
>Please respond to directly to Nance and Paula at their e-mail
>addresses stated above, and *not* to the list. I want each volunteer
>to vote with the confidence and assurance that their vote will be
>private. Each individual will have one vote, (regardless of the
>number of counties), and simple majority of the those voting will
>rule. The logos being voted upon can be found at
>http://www.rootsweb.com/~wigenweb/logo-sub.html
>
>Voting will end on Wednesday, April 5, 2000, 9 PM EST.
>
>mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net,pajolova@hotmail.com
>
>Tina
>
>The motions:
>
>WI-00001 - "Amendment of the current guidelines/bylaws: I make a
>motion that WIGenWeb amends the current guidelines (By-Laws), to
>require a majority vote for modification, whether it be an addition or
>deletion."
>
>Yes
>No
>
>WI-00002 - Designation of Logo for the WIGenWeb Project: "I make a
>motion that the WIGenWeb project designate a color series of logos or
>banners to identify the WIGenWeb Project, and such design will be
>mandatory on the MAIN page of each WI County belonging to WIGenWeb."
>
>Yes
>No
>
>If yes, http://www.rootsweb.com/~wigenweb/logo-sub.html
>
>Original WIGenWeb Project Logo
>
>New Submission
>
>
>==== WIGEN Mailing List ====
>Visit the Ashland County WIGenWeb Project Pages
>http://www.usgennet.org/~ahwiashl/index.html
>
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I too, handle all my queries manually. I frequently get people who send the
same query every few months. Do you get that too? I don't know why these
people don't check the query index that I meticulously prepare. I go ahead
and post the indentical queries, as it's as much trouble to get into a
conversation with them about how dumb they are (I don't mean that) as it is
to copy and paste the query. But I do link all same name queries together,
so hopefully these guys will someday follow the links and see how they look
LOL
Robin Hoff Kaspar
Volunteer host, Grant County, Wisconsin WIGenweb
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wigrant
--- WIGEN-D-request(a)rootsweb.com wrote:
You hang in there, and hit that delete key. On this typical junk mail stuff, I
either delete, or ignore. Never write back as then they can SPAM you or send
virus, etc... Also, block their mailing address so they can't send you
anymore, and you can write their ISP and file a formal complaint. If enough
are made, the quilty Bast... will be banned.
But, if you want a "standard" statement on your page, I got several great
ideas.
If you want to make comments about Child Abuse please email:
mailbox(a)preventchildabuse.org
Before you write hate mail about the recent newspaper article about people
locking their child in a cage, please go to this URL first:
http://www.weird-wi.com/
CAUTION: when you go looking for WIERD, it might just find you.
Hope your day is more pleasant than mine was, having to read YOUR hate email.
Would you like me to put you on a mailing list, then I can happily forward all
the emails recieved on this topic?
We have yet to recieve your contribution, and if under $1000, you do not have
the right to send hate email to this email address. Your "fair share"
statement will be forthcoming and we expect a GENEROUS donation based upon your
zealousness for this cause.
And my all time favorite:
Thank you for your email, it will be forwarded to every CHILD ABUSE network in
the United States, and Canada. Sorry, but the foriegn market is slow now or
you would be added to that also. Think of all the thousands of emails you will
recieve from people as narrow-minded as yourself.
OK OK OK, so I am being a little "non-serious", but these people should be
treated with the same lack of curtesy they are giving you! R/S MAK
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Excellent advice on the sites Rita. I'm saving that for future reference.
Geez - guys and gals - I'm sooo glad to be back to a peaceful place.
You're all like a ray of sunshine!!
Jan
Ashland, Bayfield, Waukesha, Waushara
Bob,
I usually respond by telling them this is a site for genealogical
research and I can't post their query unless it has something to do with
that purpose.
Then I apologize, and, if I can, point them to a site that would help
them. That usually has to do with adoptions, tho, or reunions. But,
I've never had to deal with someone looking to collect a debt!
Marsha
(Temp CC) Iron Co., WI -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiiron/
Robert Herald wrote:
>
> My county, Clark, is quite small and I enjoy manually handling the email
> queries. As a result, I read every one. I have had my second query that is
> not genealogically related and would like to know how others handle these
> type of queries. In the first non-g query, a man was looking for another
> man to settle a debt. I just received a second query and it "sounds" like a
> man searching for a non-related man; I can't tell the motive. Do you post
> all queries regardless? Do you question the query-writer? Do you toss it?
> Bob