Dec 25-31 2000

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Sunday 24 December 2000:

Tim Stowell wishes everyone a merry Christmas by reposting a humorous

genealogy wish list. [see below].

Monday 25 December 2000:

Pam Reid also wishes everyone a merry Christmas.

Betsy Mills asks where the group is on the application for the Service

Mark [motion 00-39]

Holly Tim replies that Tim was checking out the online forms and suggests

that since neither she or he has any knowledge of this process or any

"direct contact with legal advice" that the Board ask John Schunk "who has

been so helpful already" to assist with the actual application.

[Hmmm...last time I checked he wasn't a lawyer or experienced with service

mark applications either. Oh well, you get what you pay for.]

Monday 26 December 2000:

Holly posts the following message regarding the USGenWeb get-together at

the GenTech conference:

"Things have been moving a bit fast on the GenTech thing.... We have been

given a booth at no charge --- Booth 37... I have paid the fee for the

electrical hookup and Tina Vickery (THANKS!!!!) is paying for the phone

hookup so we can have live demos of USGenWeb Project pages and live chat

sessions. On Saturday we will have two laptops hooked up to regular

monitors. One will have a looping USGenWeb project presentation and the

other will be used for the online stuff. Saturday booth coverage is set

and Friday booth coverage is being arranged. Betsy has volunteered to

check our hookups for electric and phone first thing as she is arriving

Thursday night and will also bring whatever brochures and such I can get

sent off to her ahead of time. The thing I need most and all of you can

help... is brochures, flyers, miniflyers (1/3 of a page both sides) for

states and counties... we really ought to have as big a selection and

variety of printed promotional material to spread out on the table as we

can showing off the variety and breadth of the project to the visitors.

Saturday GenTech is having a material to spread out on the table as we can

showing off the variety and breadth of the project to the visitors.

Saturday GenTech is having a special family History Day promotion that

will bring in a lot of people at a reduced rate... aimed at the beginning

genealogist or beginning with computerized genealogy anyway. Please don't

let your county/state be unrepresented in the handouts!!!! I have slapped

together a page about USGenWeb at Gentech at:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygenweb/gentech.html with a list of who has said

they are coming at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygenweb/gentechlist.html "

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Misattribution Corner: Looks like our Beloved National Coordinator

moonlights as a copyright violator. The little Christmas message that he

sent to the -ALL list, the SC-L list, and apparently several state lists

as well was not only misattributed to something called the "Parkhurst

Family Journal" but was most definitely posted without the author's

permission. The author, Barbara Brown, is none too pleased about this

misrepresentation of her work and has requested that the attribution be

corrected and her permission be obtained before her work is promulgated

further. [If you want to view the "wish list" its posted, with proper

attribution, at: http://www.iigs.org/newsletter/9808news/genhum.htm.en;

its kind of cute, hope you enjoy it!]

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"The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he never

would be found out."

---Thomas Macaulay

This has been your Daily Board Show.

-Teresa Lindquist

merope@radix.net

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From merope@Radix.Net Fri Dec 29 10:26:12 2000

Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 10:26:08 -0500 (EST)

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Thursday 28 December 2000:

Ginger Hayes forwards a message from Barbara Brown that was sent to her as

the admin of the -ALL list [Ms. Brown is the author of the humorous essay

"I Want" that Tim Stowell forwarded without permission to all of

creation]. Ginger asks Tim to contact Ms. Brown and "correct whatever the

problem is." [Ginger also forwards this to the -ALL list. Apparently

although Ms. Brown contacted Tim at multiple email addresses several

days ago he has not extended to her the courtesy of a response.]

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Setting the Record Straight Corner: Several days ago, our Much Esteemed

National Coordinator announced on the State-Coord list that Linda Mason

and Belinda Houston [respectively SC and ASC of MSGenWeb] had resigned.

Yesterday, Linda wrote to correct him, noting that her resignation is not

effective until January 30, 2001 and Belinda will not be leaving until

February. In a bit of good news for MSGW CCs, Linda also reports that

"Several CC's have expressed some interest in the positions and MSGW has

a interim State Coordinator plan should they decide not to throw their

hats in the ring."

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Today's quote was sent in by a reader:

"But when a PERSON or group of PERSONS don't answer their email it

reflects badly on the project/group they work within. Ultimately there is

a person as the lead person of a group/sub-group who must take

responsibility for the actions not only of their own but of those they

purport to lead."

---Tim Stowell, USGENWEB-ALL, 7 Jun 2000

This has been your Daily Board Show.

-Teresa Lindquist

merope@radix.net

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