UTILIZING THE CLAY COUNTY SITE
The Clay County, Florida site has a new home. Please go to Clay
County site http://members.aol.com/franmuse/clay/index.htm.
Hope you will enjoy your visit.
Please understand...there are several places that data is stored. This
makes it hard to understand and more difficult....there isn't a ONE
button "Search" for USGenWeb. The various sections sort of evolved, so
maybe a tiny history of them will also help explain them!
1) Clay
County Page
This was the 1st idea! Every county within the USA has a county page
handled by a County Coordinator. Fran Smith is our CC. It is usually an
index to what is on-line for the County as well as information about
the Courthouse, etc. Every county page looks different. The CC can use
their own creativity and everything is in HTML format. (That's the
coding that actually creates web pages, i..e. the ending of the file is
.htm)
There is a Search Engine on this page.....but remember it will ONLY
cover what is actually ON this page!
2) Clay
County Archives Page
There was a need for people to be able to contribute cemetery, wills,
deeds, info in a simple format. So every county was set-up with an
Archives Page and another volunteer to manage these files.
There is a Search Engine on this page.
3) Ancestry/Rootsweb Boards
Then another system was thought of so that people could actually POST
their own materials. Thus far in the design of USGenWeb a volunteer had
to do this for you....and volunteers can get busy and not get the
materials on-line as quickly as you'd like. Originally this was a Gen
Connect System but in 2001 this was combined with Ancestry Boards. CLAY
COUNTY, Fl MESSAGE BOARD
POST a NEW Message. Click here and you can post. Remember to
use a subject line that is specific for your message, i.e. Jones Family
1812
ADD BOARD to your FAVORITES
If you research here often, that is a good thing to do. It works almost
like a bookmark.
ADD BOARD to Notification
You may or may not want to do this. This will notify you
every time that a message is posted here. It will not contain the
"body" of the message though. IF you are on the Bibb County Mailing
List, you'll be getting the entire message.
LINKS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
This tells you the Message Board Manager. Other specific news about the
county may be listed there.
VIEW MESSAGE TYPE
Click on the arrow, and see all the options,i.e. obituary, query,
bible. (Remember though that the person posting the material must also
have used this option. So just in case I would visit the Query boards,
as that is the default posting area)
LISTED BY
You can choose if you prefer by Date or by "thread" (replies under
original message)
REPLYING TO A MESSAGE
You can respond right on-line to the message. IF you'd rather
contact the poster privately, you can click on their name.
You will see ALL the messages that they have posted, and where these
messages are located. This covers all counties.
4) Mailing Lists
This is the best known part!
And also the place where most people are comfortable posting their
information.
***The important thing is to have the SUBJECT line pertinent to the
subject of the message***
...as that is how that Search Engine is set up.
There are several ways to search this.
1) See EVERY message within a certain month
http//archiver.rootsweb.com/
Type in flCLAY
OR
http//searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl
Type in flCLAY. Select YEAR.
Type in Cemetery.... and you'll see all the messages that
we've been
posting on the Cemeteries. Click on FULL, you'll get the
actual message
sent.
SO WE HAVE 4 DIFFERENT SEARCH ENGINES TO USE, so far!! Web page,
Archives page, Ancestry/Rootsweb Page, Mailing List
5) Rootsweb
Most people think that Rootsweb and USGenWeb are the same. They're not.
Rootsweb is the Server and is a business and recently merged with
Ancestry.com. USGenWeb is an organization of volunteers that is given
free space on Rootsweb Server.
But to help out, Rootsweb has also created "Resource Pages" for every
county. http//resources.rootsweb.com/USA/FL/CLAY/
Another Search Engine This is not a USGenWeb Search engine, but does
list all the Search Engines available through Rootsweb.
http//searches.rootsweb.com/
Now, I'll probably think of some other things....but meanwhile....print
out this page, and you'll have it to refer to. And please ASK me again,
.....I really do welcome your questions, as some of this I take for
granted and forget that it needs to be explained.
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Fran Smith,County Coordinator
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