September Dedicated CC Award

The September Dedicated CC Award goes to Joe Deaver. Congratulations Joe!

Joe has been a member of the TXGenWeb Project since October of 1999 as
the County Coordinator of Bell County. Bell County won COM in May, 2002
and in December, 2006 with Joe as the County Coordinator. He is diligent
about keeping the site current and since July has been joined by Co-CC
Jody Dillard. A big thank you to Joe for being such a diligent County
Coordinator!

Remember, you can always view the Award page here:
http://www.txgenweb.org/tx/dedicated_cc.html

Please stroll on over to the CC communications list and give Joe a pat
on the back! txgen@rootsweb.com
Congratulations again, Joe!

Shirley, Elaine, Jane, and Christina

Kleberg County Has Been Adopted

Tina Sikes has adopted Kleberg County.

Your chance to adopt another county is still good as Collingsworth, Hemphill, and Zapata are still available.

Shirley

Hood County has a new CC

Bunny Freeman has adopted Hood County.

Collingsworth, Hemphill, Kleberg and Zapata are still available and are waiting patiently for a caretaker.

Shirley

End of Summer Special

The end of summer means cooler weather (107 degrees here today). Cooler weather
means more time spent indoors. More time indoors means more computer time. Okay,
so I am reaching a bit but I do have a reason for posting this message.

Hood County has now been added to the Orphan County List. Other counties on the
list are Collingsworth, Hemphill, Kleberg and Zapata. If you are interested in
adopting one of these counties, please contact me.

Shirley
(who is looking for cooler weather)

August Dedicated CC Award

The Dedicated CC Award for this month goes to Trey Holt.

Trey has been a member of the TXGenWeb Project since August of 1996 as the CC of Brazos County. The first SC for the TXGenWeb, Mike Basham, appointed Trey to be his ASC in September, 1997. The same day it was announced that Trey was our very first ASC, Mike Basham died of a heart attack. Two days later Trey became the SC and served at this position until November, 2002. He now serves as the TXGenWeb Historian. Trey is indeed a "founding father" of the TXGenWeb Project!
Thanks Trey for giving us a great foundation so the TXGenWeb could become what it is today!

Shirley

August 2011 COUNTY OF THE MONTH

Hello all!

The COUNTY OF THE MONTH for August 2011 goes to Limestone County.
The county coordinator is Cheryl Burks and the site is located at
http://www.txgenweb2.org/txlimestone/
Be sure to take a look at what she has done for Limestone County. There is a
great deal of information for researchers. It is so easy to find
information. Items of interest are bible records, slave narratives, and some
great historical data.

CONGRATULATIONS on a job well done.

Honorable mentions go to:
Bosque, Delta, Donley, Erath, Fayette, Johnson, Starr, Sutton & Terry. Awesome
job on these counties as well.

Be sure to go to txgen@rootsweb.com to let Cheryl and the rest of the counties
know what a great job they are doing.

Have a safe holiday!
Jane Keppler

January County of the Month

The Surfin' Committee is pleased to announce　LIPSCOMB COUNTY as the January 2011　County of the Month.

Congratulations to the County Coordinators Eirann Brooks and LaRae Halsy-Brooks!　 What an awesome team this is.　 For you that don't know, LaRae is Eirann's Mother.　 This is truly a

great family project for the two of them. 　

For Lipscomb County to have such a small population it　is full of great information for the researcher. Patrons should be proud to find all this research material.

Please visit with　Eirann & LaRae　and the friendly folks of　Lipscomb County

here:　http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txlipsco/

Then hop, skip, jump, run or　ice skate　over to TXGEN-L@rootsweb.com and let them know what a great job they have done.

Congratulations to those CC's as well.

Honorable Mention counties:

Calhoun, Cass, Crosby, Garza, Loving,Madison, Parker & Trinity.　

　

TXGenWeb.....as good as it gets....

WARM wishes,

Jane Keppler

TXGenWeb Surfin' Committee

Crane County added to Orphan County List

We cleared off the Orphan County list just a day or so ago but we are now starting a new one. As of this afternoon, Crane County is available for adoption. If you are interested, please contact
one of us.

Thanks,

Shirley, Elaine, & Jane　

New Url for Collin County

Collin County was offline yesterday and part of today. It is now back online but with a new URL http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txcolli2/index2.html/Welcome.html

The neighboring counties are: Dallas, Denton, Grayson, Fannin, Hunt and Rockwall.

Shirley

New Url for Tyler County

Tyler County has moved and has a new URL http://www.tylercountygenealogy.com

Neighboring counties are: Angelina, Hardin, Jasper, and Polk.

Shirley

Urls and Counties up for Adoption

Lubbock County has been adopted by Betty Fowler and the URL will remain the same. Uvalde County has been adopted by Susan Collard and that URL will remain the same also.

　

If you　have a neighboring county to either of these, please check your link　 to make sure you have the correct URL　

　

Lubbock　URL: www.txlubbock.org

neighboring counties: Crosby, Floyd, Garza, Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lynn, and Terry

Uvalde URL: http://www.txgenweb2.org/txuvalde/

neighboring counties: Bandera, Edwards, Kinney, Medina, Real, and Zavala

Upton County is now the lone Orphan County and is waiting　to be adopted.

Shirley

Welcome!

Hi Everyone!　　 　 　 　

JoHanna Pena is the newest member of the TXGenWeb and she has adopted Upton County. It's still cold and snowy/icy here in the northern part of Texas so please mush on over to the TXGEN list at txgen@rootsweb.com to say hello.

Welcome to the TXGenWeb, JoHanna!

Shirley

County of the Year

Hello!

It is with great pleasure for the Surfing Committee to announce the COUNTY OF THE YEAR for 2010.　

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!! The award goes to WISE COUNTY with coordinators La Darla Walker Keith and Sue Tackel.

http://www.wisecountytexas.info/genweb/

This was not an easy task for the committee as it was a 5 way tie. Just too many great sites to pick from .

La Darla & Sue along with their many volunteers have made Wise County an outstanding resource for the patrons who research in the county. Countless hours are spent with the enormous about of information. For example there are over 33,000 marriage and divorce records. Over 19,000 records for births records. There's also probably way over 100,000 images of headstones and documents online that are linked to the Wise County pages.

They are just starting a county school yearbooks project. They have a person scanning the books, and then theywill put the page images online and do an alphabetical index of the names. For the index on this page go to http://www.wisecountytexas.info/misc%20genealogy/bhs_index.htm the names are a link to that page of the yearbook. They hope to do old yearbooks for all the county schools. It will be a big project.

Again CONGRATULATIONS to Sue & La Darla.

Please besure to go to txgen-l@rootsweb.com to tell them what a great site this is.　

Anyone wanting to join the Surfing Committee or for the new CC's who want to know more, go to

http://www.txgenweb.org/tx/surfing/Criteria/index.htm.

Regards!!

Jane Keppler

Surfing Committee

2011 Annual Meeting

I hope everyone has marked their calendars for April 30, 2010 for the annual TXGenWeb meeting. Plans are coming together for a great meeting!

An earlier discussion on the list about dowsing for graves has encouraged the planning committee to add a session on dowsing as part of the weekend activities. We would like some input as to when to do this part of the program.

Ponder these questions and then please provide your comments/preferences/ideas:

Friday or Saturday?
If Saturday, do you want to do this last on the program and then go as a group to a local cemetery for hands-on demonstrations?
Other ideas or comments?

Thanks!
Betsy

Orphan Counties

Lubbock County has been adopted by Betty Fowler and will have a new URL soon.
Upton County has joined Uvalde on the Adopt list so we still have 2 counties that need a home. Contact me to adopt either of the orphan counties.

New Url for Motley County

Motley County moved some time ago and the new URL is　

http://www.hiddenancestors.com/txmotley/index.html

If you have a link to Motley County please update it. The neighboring counties are:Briscoe, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Hall, and King.

Free Programs & Helpful Links

It has been awhile since I posted the link to the Free Programs & Helpful Links. We have had several new comers to our "family" the last few months, and you may find some helpful programs in the list.

If you find any problems, let me know. Also, if you know of any good freeprograms you would like to see on the list, just send me a link to them.

http://txgenes.com/FreePrograms/

Happy New Year!
Elaine

Housekeeping Reminder

Hi Everyone,

Each January I send reminders about housekeeping chores for our websites and this year is no different. It has been almost 3 years since the TXGenWeb moved off Rootsweb yet we are still finding links to the old site on RW. Please make sure all your TXGenWeb links go to
http://www.txgenweb.org

The TXGenWeb rules state that all sites mustbe updated twice a year. If you have a last update date on the main page of yourwebsite it must not be older than July 2010. If you have a "What's New" page please make sure the last entry is no older than July as well. Any website witha main page update date prior to July 2010 is non-compliant. Copyrights should be changed as you update a page on the websites. Some sites have something such as 2000-2011 or 2000 - present and that is fine. Some just have the current year (2011) and that is good, too.

The staff wishes to take this opportunity to say "thank you" to each of you for all you do for your websites and the TXGenWeb. A state project is only as good as it's volunteers and the TXGenWeb Project is the best in the USGenWeb. No brag, just fact.

Shirley, Elaine, & Jane

5 Year Service Awards

2011 marks the 5 year mark for the following CC's: Amber Davidson, Carolyn Griffith, Dorman Holub, Beverly Odom, Sandra Kornegay Rhodes, Kaye Slover, and Jim Webb.
Congratulations and thank you for your dedication to the TXGenWeb!

10 Year Service Awards

This year will mark 10 years of dedication to the TXGenWeb for Kay Cunningham, Rox Ann Johnson, and Linda Simpson. They have earned the 10 Year Service Award and we are proud to honor them.
Thankyou for all you do!

15 Year Service Awards

My, how time flies! 2011 marks 15 years of existence for the TXGenWeb and we have 19 CC's who have been with the project since 1996. Our thanks to each of you!
The class of 1996:
Cynthia Buttram, Jack Buttram, Billy Clifton, Carla Clifton, Linda Jean Dolby, Tom Graham, Trey Holt, Bob Hudspeth, Linda Fox Hughes, LaDarla Keith, Jane Keppler, Barbara Knox, Darren McCathern, Betys Mills, Paula Perkins, John Quigley, Frank Saffarans, Catherine Schwarz, Gayle Triller

December County of the Month

Happy New Year Everyone!!

The Surfing Committee is pleased to announce Hopkins County as the December 2010 County of the Month.
Congratulations to the County Coordinator Teresa Stewart Sitz!

Teresa has a great wealth of information for her patrons on the Hopkins website and is very easy to find even for the beginner genealogist. Be sure and check out her What's New Page as I found a picture of her there. I've never seen her before, so now I can put a face with a name. A great picture of you Teresa!!!!

Please visit with Teresa and the friendly folks of Hopkins County at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txhopkin/

Honorable Mention counties are: Armstrong, Bosque, Crosby, Gillespie, Lavaca, Lee, Leon, Parker & San Patricio. Congratulations to those CC's as well.

5 & 10 Year Service Awards

Congratulations to Shirley Webb for reaching the 10 year mark as a CC in TXGenWeb and I am honored to present the 10 Year Service Award to her.

Clarissa Loyd and Jacqueline Latham have earned the 5 Year Service Award for their dedication to the TXGenWeb.

Congratulations, Ladies. You are truly appreciated for all you do.

January Roll Call

Happy New Year to all of our wonderful TXGenWeb volunteers!

Once again it is roll call time. Please respond by letting us know you are still an active member. Just send an email to Jane Keppler AND Elaine Martin

Please do not respond on list. This fills up everyone's email box needlessly.

Thanks for all you do with TXGenWeb! We value you and hope you have the best new year possible!

December Dedicated CC Award

Congratulations Faye Elder!

Faye Elder became a volunteer for TXGenWeb in 1998, and has been the CC of Concho County since that time. Concho County is one of the small counties in Texas, having a population of just 3044 people in 1990.
This creates problems for a CC, as there are few records available in comparison to many of the larger counties in Texas. Faye is certainly a dedicated CC as she has found interesting and valuable information to post for researchers. A big THANK YOU goes to Faye from TXGenWeb and from the patrons who have benefited from her efforts. We are proud to have Faye as a member of the TXGenWeb.

November County of the Month

Hello, Everyone,

The Surfin' Committee is pleased to announce Wise County as the November County of the Month. Congratulations to the County Coordinators, La Darla Keith and Sue Tackel!

You'll find many items of interest on the site, including World War I Discharge Papers, Funeral Home Records, 1906 Old Timers Reunion, Mystery Pictures, Huff Family Massacre, and many more. Please stop by and visit with La Darla, Sue, and the fine folks of Wise County here:

http://www.wisecountytexas.info/genweb/ .

Honorable Mention counties are Bee, Guadalupe, Harris, Hopkins, Montgomery, and Rockwall. Congratulations to all of those County Coordinators as well.

2011 Annual Meeting

Please mark your calendars for the Annual TXGenWeb Meeting. It will be held on April 30, 2011 in Paris . . . Texas, not France! The committee is working on some great plans for the meeting and a fun day for Friday before the meeting.