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From: Jeff & Sharon Kazmierski< >
Subject: Re: Venting My Frustrations
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 14:04:14 -0800


Jane Peppler <> wrote:

> Drfransen wrote:
> >
> > I've just about reached my wits end with inconsiderate overbearing
> > people that seem to think the web is their answer to free
> > information. TAKE, TAKE, TAKE - but never give!!!!!
> > The bottom line is, as a volunteer, I won't take much more abuse
> > before everything disappears off of the site.
>
> I truly hope Darrell doesn't give up. I wonder whether volunteers
> should be putting it in peoples' heads, gently but constantly, that
> it's a two-way street. I decided to transcribe the 1850 Morrow
> County census as a give-back to the online community. If you suggest
> (kindly) to everybody who asks you for help (maybe in a .sig file)
> that they, too, could be helping, it will at best get more
> information available online and, at worst, perhaps make the passive
> and grasping think twice about greedily asking for so much and
> giving nothing.

I am just getting started but I have had some wonderful help from
people on the Internet. I have used the USGenWeb and WorldGenWeb
and have gotten answers to several of my queries -- answers which
have helped me a GREAT deal! I don't always have something I can
offer to the person in return for the help they have given me. I
do, however, make sure to write each person a thank you note to show
my appreciation for the help they have given me. One person who
helped me was researching what happened to emigrants of a specific
ethnic group once they arrived in America and I shared with him what
I knew of my great-grandfather.

I do plan to volunteer time to help out. I may not be able to repay
the individuals have helped me along the way directly, but maybe
what needs to happen is that each person who uses the Internet to
get help via the GenWebs should volunteer to transcribe some data or
do lookups, etc.

Sharon

(Jeff & Sharon Kazmierski)

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