<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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... </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Jan</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Leslie Chapman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pil3hvar@gmail.com" target="_blank">pil3hvar@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Folks have been mentioning for the last few days they aren't receiving<br>
any posts.<br>
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I would suggest that it is because there haven't been many.<br>
<br>
In the past I have posted on a fairly regular basis either a question<br>
relevant to Oregon or on occasion I have taken advantage of Layne's<br>
good nature and asked for help on things usually from adjacent states.<br>
<br>
I have not had a lot of time for some while now for genealogy and then<br>
there was a period when I was unable to post or at least my posts did<br>
not show up in my yahoo account. For some reason when Layne and I<br>
finally got me able to post by adding my gmail account to Or roots I<br>
now receive everything in both accounts even though the Yahoo account<br>
supposedly was removed. Ironically for a while I could post in either<br>
account and it only showed up in the other account. I attribute this<br>
to technology not liking me. My son is pretty sure it is a PEBKAC<br>
situation;<br>
<br>
OKAY; strike that last bit, posted this and another post from Yahoo<br>
and they just disappeared into the ether, so will try gmail.<br>
<br>
Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair<br>
<br>
I get very annoyed when I do something exactly right three times on my<br>
puter and do not get the correct result then he punches in the same<br>
command and gets the correct result, again he is sure it is as stated<br>
above.<br>
<br>
But I digress; One of the sad reasons our list has become<br>
significantly less active is we lost a number of the people who were<br>
most active on the list and some of the rest were in failing health<br>
last I heard. That is unfortunately kind of a universal trend. My<br>
girlfriend and I recently joined the Eagles and now we find that we<br>
are invited to attend a meeting to determine if the local Aerie will<br>
continue to function. As with fraternal organizations the impetus to<br>
pursuing genealogy is fading I believe. There are still some new<br>
folks interested but the numbers who are too busy to continue and the<br>
attrition rate on those of us in our later years seems to be thinning<br>
the ranks.<br>
<br>
I know that the few posts I HAVE made in the past year or so since I<br>
was able to post again have not received much if any response where in<br>
the past at least four of five would have a suggestion or an answer, I<br>
have been lucky if I got more than one response.<br>
<br>
Just for the sake of argument I will post a query separate from this<br>
on my current family page and lets see what kind of response I get.<br>
<br>
Leslie Chapman<br>
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