[or-roots] List inactivity

[Bony, Jan]

I'm a first generation Oregonian who is currently living in Vancouver
Washington. My parents were both born in Des Moines, Iowa. So, Iowa has
been my main genealogy focus.

My interest is in Oregon is its history. I am the State Coordinator for the
ORGenWeb project, it is part of a national group of volunteers who provide
free genealogy web sites. In Oregon, we are mostly county orientated. Many
states have city & county, along with a state page that offers links to
more generic information. I always feel bad using my email lists to solicit
information for my state or county sites. So, that is why I don't respond
much.

Now, I have been gaining materials from my mother in law on her and her
husband's family trees.  They all came as early as 1854 one the wagon
trains. As I find time, around updating web sites and researching my own
family, and just generic life getting in the way, I'll start posting the
"out-law" side of my marriage...

Jan

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Leslie Chapman <pil3hvar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Folks have been mentioning for the last few days they aren't receiving
> any posts.
>
> I would suggest that it is because there haven't been many.
>
> In the past I have posted on a fairly regular basis either a question
> relevant to Oregon or on occasion I have taken advantage of Layne's
> good nature and asked for help on things usually from adjacent states.
>
> I have not had a lot of time for some while now for genealogy and then
> there was a period when I was unable to post or at least my posts did
> not show up in my yahoo account. For some reason when Layne and I
> finally got me able to post by adding my gmail account to Or roots I
> now receive everything in both accounts even though the Yahoo account
> supposedly was removed. Ironically for a while I could post in either
> account and it only showed up in the other account. I attribute this
> to technology not liking me. My son is pretty sure it is a PEBKAC
> situation;
>
> OKAY; strike that last bit, posted this and another post from Yahoo
> and they just disappeared into the ether, so will try gmail.
>
> Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair
>
> I get very annoyed when I do something exactly right three times on my
> puter and do not get the correct result then he punches in the same
> command and gets the correct result, again he is sure it is as stated
> above.
>
> But I digress; One of the sad reasons our list has become
> significantly less active is we lost a number of the people who were
> most active on the list and some of the rest were in failing health
> last I heard. That is unfortunately kind of a universal trend. My
> girlfriend and I recently joined the Eagles and now we find that we
> are invited to attend a meeting to determine if the local Aerie will
> continue to function. As with fraternal organizations the impetus to
> pursuing  genealogy is fading I believe. There are still some new
> folks interested but the numbers who are too busy to continue and the
> attrition rate on those of us in our later years seems to be thinning
> the ranks.
>
> I know that the few posts I HAVE  made in the past year or so since I
> was able to post again have not received much if any response where in
> the past at least four of five would have a suggestion or an answer, I
> have been lucky if I got more than one response.
>
> Just for the sake of argument I will post a query separate from this
> on my current family page and lets see what kind of response I get.
>
> Leslie Chapman
>
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