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From: "Jennifer Sherwood Braswell \(Gen\)" <>
Subject: [GABIBB] Utilizing the GA BIBB site .....
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 18:34:03 -0600


Virginia Crilley posted this message to another list some time and gave me
permission to post it to our list...with appropriate adjustments.
You may save it for personal reference and it will also be posted on the
website for everyone's benefit in the future.
Please read it carefully. It should help prevent some confusion in the
future about to use the web site to its best advantage.

Jennifer Sherwood Braswell

New GABIBB coordinator
http://www.rootsweb.com/~gabibb/bibb.htm


Utilizing the GA BIBB site
Please understand...there are several places that data is stored.
This makes it hard to understand and more difficult....there isn't a ONE
button "Search" for USGenWeb. The various sections sort of evolved, so maybe
a tiny
history of them will also help explain them!

1) Bibb County Page - http//www.rootsweb.com/~gabibb/gabibb.htm

This was the 1st idea! Every county within the USA has a county page
handled by a County Coordinator. Jennifer Braswell is our CC.
It is usually an index to what is on-line for the County as well as
information about the Courthouse, etc.
Every county page looks different. The CC can use their own creativity and
everything is in HTML format.
(That's the coding that actually creates web pages, i..e. the ending of the
file is .htm)

There is a Search Engine on this page.....but remember it will ONLY cover
what is actually ON this page!

2) Bibb County Archives Page -
http//www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/bibb.htm

There was a need for people to be able to contribute cemetery, wills,
deeds, info in a simple format. So every county was set-up with an
Archives Page and another volunteer to manage these files.
I am the File Manager for Bibb county. When you send me your information,
that's where I put it.
You'll find ALL the cemeteries that we're working on there.
There are also some church histories....Bible Records, etc.
There is a Search Engine on this page..(scroll down to the bottom)...which
covers ALL the Archives in Georgia (depending on how you "check" it) or
just Bibb County itself.

3) Gen Connect Boards
Then another system was thought of so that people could actually POST
their own materials. Thus far in the design of USGenWeb a volunteer had to
do
this for you....and volunteers can get busy and not get the materials
on-line as quickly as you'd like.

Right under the TITLE of the page, i.e. BIBB COUNTY, GA QUERY BOARD,
you'll see in a row 4 items
1) post a query

2) Subscribe to Notification List
(you don't need to do this if you are on the Bibb Mailing List itself, as
all the messages will come through to you)
If you did subscribe you would get a note (not the full message) that
a message had been posted on the page. You AUTOMATICALLY get a note if
someone posts a response to your message.

3) Surname List
***This is the important one. Click on this and it takes you to an
alphabetical list....Keep clicking and you'll get to your Surname....and a
page that shows any Query, Bible Record, etc that has this Surname listed
in the Surname Box of the posting.
^^^That's another important thing to remember. When you post, in the
Surname Box, list all the Surnames within the message....>>>not all the
surnames you're researching!! If you don't list any, then your Query
won't be indexed. If you list ALL your surnames, then people will be
disappointed
when they read that one message which may not pertain to it.

http//cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Bibb
http//cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/BibbBibl
http//cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/BibbBios
http//cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/BibbDeed
http//cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/BibbObits
http//cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/BibbPens
http//cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/BibbWill

These boards have their OWN Search Engine (and they cover ALL the Gen
Connect Boards). Lots of people miss this Search Engine. It is right at
the top of the page....

When you post things here, they will appear immediately on the page
itself....BUT it takes at least 24 hours to show up in the Search Engine.

Yes, these do appear to be repetitious....but I think they were a BIG
improvement...as more data gets on-line with everyone helping out with the
posting! It never hurts to have things posted in several places.

4) Mailing Lists
This is the best known part!
And also the place where most people are
comfortable posting their information.
>>> The important thing is to have the SUBJECT line pertinent to the
subject of the message<<<
...as that is how that Search Engine is set up.

There are several ways to search this.
1) See EVERY message within a certain month
http//archiver.rootsweb.com/

Type in GABIBB

OR

http//searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl
Type in GABIBB. Select YEAR.

Type in Cemetery.... and you'll see all the messages that we've been
posting on the Cemeteries. Click on FULL, you'll get the actual message
sent.

SO WE HAVE 4 DIFFERENT SEARCH ENGINES TO USE, so far!!
Web page, Archives page, Gen Connect Page, Mailing List

5) Rootsweb
Most people think that Rootsweb and USGenWeb are the same. They're not.
Rootsweb is the Server and is a business and recently merged with
Ancestry.com. USGenWeb is an organization of volunteers that is given
free
space on Rootsweb Server.

But to help out, Rootsweb has also created "Resource Pages" for every
county.
http//resources.rootsweb.com/USA/Ga/Bibb/

Another Search Engine
This is not a USGenWeb Search engine, but does list all the Search Engines
available through Rootsweb.

http//searches.rootsweb.com/

Now, I'll probably think of some other things....but meanwhile....print
out
this page, and you'll have it to refer to.
And please ASK me again, .....I really do welcome your questions, as some
of this I take for granted and forget that it needs to be explained.

Virginia



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