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From: Erin Bradford <>
Subject: New features on the website
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:50:08 -0700 (PDT)


Hi all! I've been pretty absent from the list and website lately. Sorry for
that, just been very busy. I wanted to let everyone know about a new feature
that will be coming within a week to the website and also take a vote on
another feature.

1st, I have decided to add a message board to the site (the site is in my
signature). I've thought about doing this for years, but put it off because
there is a plethora of message boards for genealogists out there. I finally
decided to add them as just another tool for everyone to use and I really don't
expect a lot of use on these boards. I am in no way advocating using my boards
over Ancestry.com/Rootsweb.com boards, these are just another tool you can use.
Anyone can view the boar, but to help control spam and unwanted posts to the
board, I have set it up so that you have to register to post a message and you
have to register to see the poster's contact info (user name, email, etc.). If
I find that these security measures are not enough, I can upgrade them and make
the restrictions tighter. Also, when you register, a message will be send to
the email address you give in order to confirm your address before you can
post. I know to some this will be seen as an inconvenience, but it's all to
protect your email from spammers who search for email addresses on message
boards. There are still some kinks I need to work out and hopefully will get
that done within the week. Check the main website under the announcements in
about a week for the new boards.

2nd, I have the option to add a chat room to the website. Is this something
that you would like? I know there are also a plethora of chat sites online as
well (I'm a host at one). If a chat room is added, I'd like to keep the chats
related to the surnames on the website/lists I moderate. There is a good chat
forum for locality chats (http://www.genealogyforum.org), I host Southern US on
Monday nights, but there are chats for pretty much any location and general
chats for locations that don't have a specific chat. Ideas of how a chat room
on the GenDepository site could be utilized is everyone of a surname get
together to share information (this could be good for the "lurkers" on these
lists who never post), or possibly a meeting place for a special research topic
on one of the surnames to give each other updates, etc. 2 special topics I can
think of right now are the NC Bradford project I'm working on and also the
Bradford DNA project. For the Eller list, maybe all the descendants of George
Michael Eller. Maybe for the Black list all Blacks in a certain location or
from a common ancestor. I would be more than happy to set up this chat room if
it will be used. The chat room itself is free for me to set up, but if I do
set it up and it's never used, it would be a waste of disk space and bandwidth.
Please respond to me off the list if you are interested in this feature.
Please don't clog up the mailing list by responding there, send you vote off
the list. If you are on list mode (Surname-L), you should just be able to hit
reply and respond to me directly. If you ware digest mode (Surname-D), copy my
email address, hit reply, and paste my address over the one in the "to" field.


Thanks all and good luck to all in your research!


Erin Bradford

List manager
http://www.ncalhn.org
ALHN County Coordinator for multiple NC Counties
http://www.gendepository.com (the Genealogy Depository-Barringer, Black, Bradford, Coventry, Eller, Hackett, Hupp, and Kern)

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