Rita,
To be quite honest I don't know .. let me see if I can find out. You all
are stumping the panel lately <g>.
Parts of the query manager:
* Display Queries
* Enter a Query
* Published Resources and Lookup Volunteers
* Surname Registry Lookups
* Volunteer a Resource or Register a Surname
I asked Tom to share it basically for the Surname functionality that is of
issue of late with Surname Helper.
If you want to see how it works, you can check out one of my county pages in
Maine ..
, the first five
links.
As you see I also maintain a link to the Rootsweb Message Boards.
I will get back to you with an answer to your question.
Tina
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rita" <ocontogal2000(a)yahoo.com>
To: <WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: [WIGEN-L] Query Manager system
Tina,
I have a question (oh, joy). Does the Rootsweb/Ancestry search engine
thingy pick up what is on this QM System? Do they send people to it for
what is posted there as with the other query boards? Thank you for
sending this. Rita - Oconto County
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wioconto/
"When you're down and out,
lift up your head and shout,
Help! ".
Tina S Vickery wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is a resource that many of the County and Local Coordinators
> (Town Coordinators) in the MEGenWeb Project and throughout the
> USGenWeb Project use. It has served the MEGenWeb Project well. I
> asked Tom Raynor, USGenWeb Coordinator for Cumberland and York
> Counties Maine, who developed the program, to share this resource
> with all of you.
>
> Below is a description of the Query Manager System. Thank you Tom,
> for writing this description and sharing this resource with all of
> us.
>
> Sincerely,
> Tina S. Vickery
> ASC MEGenWeb Project
> SC WIGenWeb Project
>
> [Please feel free to share with appropriate Project lists]
>
> _______
>
> The USGenWeb Query Manager system has been around since 1997, and
> is available free for use by any USGenWeb Town, County or State
> Coordinator.
>
> One of the original cornerstones of the USGenWeb Project was to
> provide a place for on-line genealogical queries, similar to what
> you might find in the back of a genealogical society's magazine.
>
> In the beginning, visitors e-mailed their queries. Coordinators
> copied, reformatted and pasted the queries to display on their web
> pages. The Query Manager (QM for short) was created to automated
> this process. Using QM, visitors submit their own formatted
> queries, which are stored on a database for instant search and
> retrieval by other visitors.
>
> Using QM, visitors to any participating site can enter or search
> queries for that or any other area. Each participating site is a
> "window" into the entire system.
>
> QM does not try to "steal" visitors from your USGenWeb site. Page
> headings and default values are customized to give the appearance
> that the visitor has never left your site. All "return to home
> page" links direct the user back to the your site. Rather than
> sending them away, QM can actually bring more visitors to your
> site. In addition to every other participating USGenWeb site, QM
> data is searchable via the GENDEX genealogical index. Visitors
> from that system may never have heard of USGenWeb until they follow
> a query to your site.
>
> The same search tools available to end users allow you, the local
> coordinator, to monitor queries submitted at - or about - your
> area. Most coordinators check new queries once a week or every few
> days to see if there are any new ones they can help with.
>
> To use QM, you just copy a few links to your web site. The links
> tell QM the area your site covers, and the address to send your
> visitors back to when they are finished. You don't even need to
> know any HTML; there is a QM setup page which will create the links
> for you.
>
> To learn more about QM, visit the following page:
>
>
http://www.raynorshyn.com/MEGenWeb/QMAbout.html
>
> That page can get you up and running on QM in minutes, or you can
> click the link to the QM FAQ page from there.
>
> - Tom Raynor
> USGenWeb Coordinator
> Cumberland and York Counties, Maine
>
http://www.raynorshyn.com/ContactUs.asp?Addressee=USGW
>
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