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From: Tim Stowell <>
Subject: Re: [BOARD-L] Census Motion I+II = One
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 01:01:58 -0400


>Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 15:48:41 -0700
>From: "Esse Frye" <>
>To:
>Cc:
>Subject: {not a subscriber} Re: [BOARD-L] Census Motion I+II = One
>
>Out of the mouths of Babes! Keep em on the right track Maggie!
>
>Listen to her people; if you want to keep your positions intact. Especially,
>you..Joe!
>Esse
>
>
>----Original Message Follows----
>From: "MaggieOhio" <>
>Reply-To:
>To:
>Subject: Re: [BOARD-L] Census Motion I+II = One
>Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 16:42:01 -0400
>
>This motion is out of order. The USGWCP THAT Sue Soden represents DOES NOT
>EXIST AS FAR AS THE USGWP is concerned. You cannot place someone in a AB
>Rep position from a project that has been severed by the AB without first
>undoing that. This motion is simply an attempt to skate around the issue.
>It just makes the person that made the motion look stupid. The AB is not
>GOD. We are here to advise the NC in his running of the USGWP. We should
>not be sticking our noses into state or special project business unless
>asked by that project. That is up to the SCs, ASCs, CCs and FMs of the
>projects. If you all (and I'm sure you had a mass meeting on mIRC and
>decided how you were going to proceed) are going to ignore the Bylaws and do
>what you want then why don't we just throw out the bylaws, dissolve the AB
>and go back to having an NC and each state running their own business.
>
>This AB as a whole spends more time harrassing the folks that work on the
>Census or in the USGW Archives than actually helping the SCs and CCs of the
>project. I actually agree with Shari that all the special projects should
>be done away with and placed under the auspices of the USGW Archives. But
>we are saddled with how the Bylaws were written and pushed through primarily
>by Kay Mason.
>
>As I said in my private message on -Exec (some weeks ago) I think that the
>two projects should both be equal parts of the USGWP with the only
>requirement being that a copy of all their transcriptions be placed in the
>USGW Archives. If either project refuses to do this then they are not
>serving the researchers or the project itself. Every member of the AB
>either ignored or did not respond to my message.
>
>Maggie
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Garnett J.(Joe) Zsedeny" <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 12:06 PM
>Subject: [BOARD-L] Census Motion I+II = One
>
>
>I move that:
>
>1. Sue Soden, elected by the CP, be appointed by the Board to fill the
>vacant Census Project (CP) Board position until September.
>
>2. Members of both census projects be allowed to nominate names for the
>CP Board position for the election in September.
>
>3. The election to fill the CP position to be conducted by the official
>USGenWeb Election Committee.
>
>Joe
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>Zsedeny Genealogy - http://www.rootsweb.com/~jzed/home.htm
>NDGenWeb Archives - http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nd/ndfiles.htm
>Pembina County, ND - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndpembin/pembina.htm
>Ramsey County, ND - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndramsey/ramsey.htm
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