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From: "Pam Rietsch" <>
Subject: [TMG] The 1895 Atlas & MARDOS Memorial Library
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:23:35 -0500
In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20040115221625.02b163c0@incoming.verizon.net>


Sure Walt,

The 1895 atlas has been on line since 1997, but sadly due to the fact that
when my nephew taught me to do coding he thought that his aunt would not do
that many pages, maybe 10?, certainly not over 10,000. As a result he did
not complete the training which is necessary when a website has thousands of
pages to keep in order. I had planned on redoing the site for the past 5
years, but then a horrific car wreck in 1998 where I rolled an SUV 4 times
and flipped it end to end twice kinda slowed me down. Finally got better
from that and just needed spinal fusion to complete the body repair, so I
had that and then on the very first day of being allowed to drive I drove to
church and on the way home, sitting in the left turn lane at a red light,
an idiot red light runner nailed me and so now 13 surgeries later in 2.5
years I am finally getting caught up. Still need to have spinal fusion again
do redo what he totaled, but I am determined to get back what I can. The
face is half paralyzed, and pain is always there, but I will NOT let him
win, grrrrrrrrrr!

I just totally recoded the 1895 atlas located at www.LivGenMI.com/1895 so
that all of the maps are compressed so they load faster. Also the data pages
are redone also so they are not absolute monsters to load. This atlas is
just part of the on line library I have dedicated to my parents, the MARDOS
Memorial Library www.MemorialLibrary.com We have hundreds of antique books
on line, many with all name indexes. If by chance you are doing research in
Livingston County MI, then go to the main site of the 1895 atlas,
www.LivGenMI.com I am in the process of totally overhauling that now as I
have filmed every tombstone in 83 of the 89 cemeteries and will be putting
those on line. I have several thousand more antique books, mostly from the
Midwest and tons and tons of maps. One that you all might find interesting
which also has been redone is the 1891 Shippers Gaz, it has tons of maps of
the original rail lines and it also shows all of the dealers that dealt with
that line at the time which I think is helpful since this was done just a
year after the infamous 1890 census that does not exist any longer. I also
did alpha name lists for each rr. That is listed under the Memorial Library
in the Transportation section. http://www.memoriallibrary.com/Trans/RRGaz/

If any of you like any of these projects and are able I would appreciate a
few bucks be sent to www.USGenNet.org as we are the first & only 501c3 site
to host historical & genealogical sites and all donations are tax
deductible. When the red light runner hit me I no longer could afford the
$2000 a year for the bandwidth, so I put my sites there. Many do not
understand that every time a file is downloaded from a website such as this
there is a charge to the site owner and to date our bandwidth is averaging
about $1000 a month. We are watching people enjoy about 8-10 million pages a
week on www.USGenNet.org There are some phenomenal sites there, the
TNGenWeb, the US Census project, some GREAT history sites, I could read for
hours in there, but then I would not get anything done :((( If 1/100th of
the people to visit my sites from Mar to Dec just donated a dollar, our
bandwidth would be paid for the entire 2004 year. Thanks guys, going out
with night vision goggles to see if the mail lady is coming yet <g>

Pam Rietsch




-----Original Message-----
From: Walt [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 10:18 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [TMG] Roll Call - please delete if you don't care for the
fun


At 10:06 PM 15/01/2004, Pam Rietsch wrote:
>... now that the 1895 atlas is complete on line I am working on an 1885
>version for people. Must be nuts <g>


Pam

Please tell me about your atlas.

Walt


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