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Subject: [BOARD-L] Kay Mason Changes Name of Census Project to "fit" Bylaws
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Listmembers,
Anyone who knows me very well knows I like to see things in black & white,
not gray. Having researched for nearly 30 years I know things are not always
as they might seem and the only way to clarify is to keep digging out little
pieces to the puzzle until one can get a clearer picture of things. When Tim
delinked the CP, I had heard bits and pieces of the 2-sided story. I've been
digging since that day. I have amassed quite a collection in related emails,
list archives, web pages, etc. I have about 1/3 to 1/2 of it online already.
I am beginning to get the feeling that both sides in this issue have been
somewhat duped. I'll not go into great detail right this moment but do want
to share a couple of things I have discovered in this morning's early hours.
I have found that the first census project was using the name "Archives
Census Project" as far back as 9 Mar 1977 and continued using that name
until 28 Nov 1998, just as Linda Lewis has said. You will note that the time
period covers both pre and post Bylaws. Kay Mason instructed Holly Timm to
change the name on the project pages prior to 28 Nov 1998. Kay made the
following announcement on 28 Nov 1998:
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>We've made a couple of changes in our pages lately.
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>In order to conform to the USGenWeb Project Bylaws, we've
>changed the name on our pages to "The USGenWeb Census
>Project".
>
>Many of you have asked us how to find our Project's
>transcriptions.. to make it easier for you, and for researchers,
>we've started loading all of our transciptions to a special
>USGenWeb Census Project Archive at:
>
>http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwcens/
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>We don't have all of the completed files there yet, but we're working
>on it!
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>Of course, the completed transcriptions are also still going to the
>USGenWeb Archives.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Kay Mason
>National Coordinator
>
>USGenWeb Census Project
>http://www.usgenweb.org/census/
>http://www.usgenweb.com/census
>http://www.usgenweb.net/census/
>
>
>==== CENSUS Mailing List ====
>Census Help Pages and other important Census Project information at;
>http://www.usgenweb.org/census/info/
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Kay wrote:
>In order to conform to the USGenWeb Project Bylaws, we've
>changed the name on our pages to "The USGenWeb Census
>Project".
Now that does throw a whole different slant on all the proclamations flying
about the various mail lists over the last week or so.
Several people including, Linda Lewis, Sue Soden, Holly Timm were still
using the name "Archives Census Project" into the fall of 1998 and at least
a couple of months after the adopting of the Bylaws. But guess what else,
Kay Mason herself last used that project name on or about 28 May 1998 as far
as I have been able to determine. Kay's personal change came about just
about the time the bylaws committee was working the proposed bylaws to be
voted on from 1 Jul 1998 until 31 Jul 1998.
I have uncovered several other discrepancies in some of the things that Kay
Mason proclaimed to be the truth, including Dr. Brian Leverich correcting a
false statement that Kay had posted to the Census project mail lists shortly
after closing those same lists and making them unsearchable. But there are
many people who do remember and some who still have copies of some of those
messages.
I am beginning to think that most everyone of both sides of these issues has
taken the word of someone else to be truth without the evidence to back up
those statements in some instances. This reminds me of about one-half of the
family on one of my surname lines.... everyone seems to want to be the
descendant of a particular Revolunationary Soldier .... and not matter how
much one group says "it just ain't so" the other side digs in their heels
and proclaims to the world that he is indeed an ancestor without much proof
and much contradicting documentation.
It may very well be that both sides FULLY believe in what they are saying,
but the black and white FACTS have not been presented in such a way as to
convince the opposite side to alter their thinking or views.
RootsLady (aka) Barbara Yancey Dore
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