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From: "John Simons" <>
Subject: Re: [SCBERKEL] The Need for New Berkeley County Web Page Coordinators?
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 19:22:37 -0500
References: <LPBBJLCLEBCDGPOEMBNAKEOICNAA.MIKE_BUSHY@homexpressway.net>


Mike,

Do not give up your site. You and I have invested great hours into your
sites. I have lived here all my live and your site and my site are the best
county sites in the state of South Carolina. You and Bushy have don a great
job with the Churches, Cemetaries, and the Wills.

Yours In History,
"The Huguenot"
John J. Simons III
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Hartman" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 9:55 AM
Subject: [SCBERKEL] The Need for New Berkeley County Web Page Coordinators?


> Hello all,
> Bushy and I were just contacted by someone just starting up another
> Berkeley County web page. Please do not consider this flaming or
criticizing
> the owner or other owners of other Berkeley County web pages. This owner
was
> very nice and requested permission to post their page information on the
> mailing list and didn't wish to step on any toes. We appreciate that, and
> got
> us to thinking to ask a question of the members of the list.
> We have lived in Berkeley County since 1997. We have coordinated the
> Rootsweb SCGenWeb county web page for several years now, just about as
long
> as we have been here. We do not have any family in Berkeley County. We
did
> this because when we first started doing genealogy online we found that
this
> county site was up for adoption. Our whole goal was to give back to the
> genealogy community as we received from others in other states that our
> families did and do live in. We recently spent many hours revising the
page
> and removing all data from the previous owner John Simons, who has his own
> web page with the Berkeley County Historical Society, you can find a link
to
> his page from ours. We found that most of the Berkeley county web pages
> focused on differing areas and if we all worked together we could all
> intensively cover those areas in which we were most interested. Mike and I
> enjoy photographing headstones and cemeteries in hopes of preserving the
> images before the stones are gone. We also have started going to
Charleston
> and paying for copies of early wills by going through the microfilms and
> pulling out all those that mention Berkeley County or her parishes. This
is
> somewhat expensive but we felt that it was worth it to provide a quality
web
> page since we were not receiving any submissions. We also just obtained
> copies of the 1790 census from Charleston.
>
> Back to the purpose of this posting:
>
> 1. We would like to ask the subscribers of the Berkeley County mail list
if
> they feel that our web page is needed, since there are so many others?
Here
> are just a couple of examples:
>
> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~tga/
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~scbchs/index.htm
>
> 2. And/or would you like for someone else to take the SCGenWeb Berkeley
> County web page over, possibly a native to the area vice persons recently
> moved here?
>
> Only thing that we ask is for honesty, and that you make your responses to
> the list. Please, let's keep it polite. Anyone that does not respond
will
> be considered as a vote for us to give up the web page to someone else.
We
> will be more than happy to honor the request of the
> majority.
>
> Have a great genealogical day!
> Mike & Bushy
>
>
>
>
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