Within a short time after it went online, I began getting emails thanking me for sharing it - one person discoverd the last name of a bride they had not been able to uncover from other sources, another found the exact month and year their ancestors left Georgia for Texas and another found the full name of a female ancestor. 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gafayett/church/antioch.htm

I realized then how important the church records are to our research & heritage.  I have put this list together of places I have used in building the Church pages on my websites over the years and I hope they will give you ideas for building yours.  Hopefully some of you will have other knowledge to share with us regarding this important resource. 

1 - Run a GNIS query for Churches & Cemeteries in your county.

http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/

2 - Search the internet for variations of county, city, church, denomination - pull current church information regarding location and contact information. Link to their website if available and take a look at the website, I have found quite a few with extensive history online and older photographs.  I like to use Google so that I can use the Advanced Features and narrow down the information even further.

3 - Local history books - a good source for lists of historic churches that may or may not still be in existence or may now be located in another county. Also a possible source of dates for organization, building dates and early members. 

4 - Search Georgia’s Virtual Vault - Early Legislation - for your county and/or town names to see if you can pull up early incorporation information.  Is also a good source for early school names. The search results include enough information to fairly quickly scan through and pull up the documents that would apply.

http://content.sos.state.ga.us/cdm4/legdocs.php
http://neptune3.galib.uga.edu/ssp/cgi-bin/ftaccess.cgi?_id=7f000001&dbs=ZLGL
5 - Link your churches to any cemetery surveys available online - either on your website, another site or in the archives.

6 - Search the LDS Catalog to see what church records have been microfilmed by them for your county and list it on the site with each church name.

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp

7 - Georgia Baptist Records - Jack Tarver Library @ Mercer University
http://tarver.mercer.edu/
http://tarver.mercer.edu/archives/sc.php
Every time I visit their website, I find more information!

8 - Georgia Methodist Records - Pitt Theology Library @ Emory University (mostly North Georgia Conference, but there are links to other resources)

http://www.pitts.emory.edu/collections/archives_ngca.cfm

9 - Search the archives of your county mailing list for church or churches.  Many of these contain information ranging from a name you haven’t found in other places or locations you haven’t been able to find to actual records people posted years ago that were never pulled onto a county site or into the archives for your county. 

Some of the payback I have received for building my church pages up as an important resource is truly amazing!  I was contacted a few years ago by a pastor of a church I had listed but had little information on and asked if I could post a notice on the page about their upcoming 100th year celebration.  I replied that I would be glad to and asked him if he had any historical information regarding the church and he sent back several paragraphs that filled in this church’s history.

On a county mailing list (not one of my counties), I saw a man post something about some Baptist Association minutes he had.  I wrote to him and found out that he had received 3 pamphlets published by the Flint River and Towaliga Baptist Associations that a friend had found at a sale and sent to him.  He had not transcribed them but had scanned copies that he furnished to me and I transcribed them.  They had important information on extinct churches in several counties -
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gafayett/church/1827flintriv.htm
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gafayett/church/towaliga1847.htm
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gafayett/church/towaliga1848.htm

After transcribing those records, I wrote to the Flint River Baptist Association asking about a church that was mentioned in these minutes and a couple of other places I had seen but couldn’t find any other records of or a location and they replied with quite a bit of information on several churches that I added to the site also.

My most recent payback has been the donation of over 10 years of research by a church historian to my Fayette County site.  The church members had collected biographies of families, church history, records and local history preparing to publish a church history and then decided not to publish it. 

If you go to my website and the church page located here:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gafayett/church/churches.htm
Scroll down to Inman United Methodist Church and you will see links to part of the information donated.
In addition, they provided a complete transcription of the 1863 census for the county:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gafayett/census/1863.htm
and over 30 family biographies that I am still working on getting online:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gafayett/biography/bios.htm

The person who sent this in told me she had also donated it to Genealogy.com but she wanted to assure that it would always be available free which is why she was sending it to me.

I’ve always found that most people don’t really know that we want people to contribute their data.  Sure we say this on our pages, but so often, people are timid and don’t think this means them.  They may think their family really isn’t of interest to others — when in fact, everyone’s family helped to shape the county in one way or another.

I also make a point of joining the GEORGIA@rootsweb.com list.  Sometimes it is very, very slow — other times it is quite active.  The more CCs that would become active on this list, the more people would be aware of the work GAGenWeb actually does.  By attempting to help someone with answers on the Georgia list, you can also refer them to some of our helpful GAGenWeb pages.

I’ve also been asked about "who is the manager" of a County List.  This varies, and I would say the majority are not members of GAGenWeb. In the early days, almost every manager had a county in GAGenWeb.    However, regardless of who is manager of the List itself, I’ve always found that anyone who attempts to help out on the List, will quickly be viewed as someone who will take the time to answer and direct people to places to search. Your  posts generally lead to people showing more interest in your own County pages.

I’d be interested in knowing how others make use of their County Lists.

Vivian

Jackie was a great contributor to Georgia Genealogy.  She typed up so many obits, newspaper items, histories, biographies, and surveys several cemeteries  — mostly in the Northern Georgia counties such as Hall, Banks, Franklin.

Her death was quite sudden — a massive heart attack.

I’ve created a special Memorial Page for her, and please feel free to use the material and the photo (taken by a friend, David Styles)

Also please help pass along this information to anyone you think might have worked with Jackie.  I will really miss her, and am so glad I did have the chance to work with her.  She was truly dedicated to preserving Georgia Genealogy.

Virginia Crilley

I had never heard of this one, so asked around and got some helpful info.

1) Go here: http://www.officeviewers.com/  and download TextMaker Viewer.  Its

This is a great little tool for getting batches of photos resized for the web.

Quick Web Photo Resizer offers an ingenious way of resizing your photos before you upload them to the Web. You simply select a resizing scheme and drag images to the program’s window.

This is a shareware program — and there is a $29 version that is more than reasonable!

Welcome to The GAGenWeb Project blog! Thanks to Roger Nalls, we now have a place to share information and ideas to make us better county coordinators, researchers and Web masters. Hopefully, the blog also will help to foster the friendly atmosphere we strive for within the project.

Enjoy!

Ken and Carolyn were a team! In fact, I believe that Carolyn is the reason that Ken became a "file manager". She was already contributing so much data to the Archives, and when more volunteers were requested to help out in an administrative role, Ken volunteered.

He was very conscientious about uploading files and keeping his pages arranged to be helpful to any researcher looking for information on their family. For years he kept the weekly update for "new files" contributed — until the amount of files increased so much, it just didn’t seem feasible for him to spend so much time doing that. His attention to detail was always so obvious.

Ken was so easy to work with and will be missed by all of us. His genealogy work will live on.  

KENNETH D. JOHNSON
Born in Detroit, MI on Mar. 4, 1945
Departed on Nov. 17, 2006 and resided in Troy, MI.
Service: Monday Nov. 20, 2006
Cemetery: White Chapel Cemetery

By DERRICK HENRY
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 08/14/04

Bill Clody inspired hundreds of young Suwanee swimmers. In 1993, he founded the summer swim program for his Richland subdivision, and he was president until his death. The community program, for boys and girls ages 3 to 18, fed into the Gwinnett County Swim League, where Mr. Clody was a vice president. Under Mr. Clody’s leadership, annual participation in the Richland Waves team grew to more than 100 young people. Richland Waves swim team founder Bill Clody is shown at a swim meet at Georgia Tech in July 1999. Mr. Clody was also a vice president of the Gwinnett County Swim League.

"Bill was always looking out for the best interests of the children; he wanted to see them succeed," said Angie Johnson of Scottsdale, Ariz., a former resident of the Richland community.

"He was very encouraging to them," Mrs. Johnson added. "He felt that if the children had one area in which they could excel, they would do well in life. Several swimmers on his team won state competitions. Several went to college on swimming scholarships, including my son Chris. Bill was extremely dedicated and had a real impact on the children’s lives."

"Bill bragged on those kids like they were his own," recalled Meg Rooney of Lilburn, the treasurer of the Gwinnett County Swim League. "They brought him a lot of joy."

William F. Clody, 60, of Suwanee died Thursday of a heart attack at WellStar Kennestone Hospital. The funeral is at 1:30 p.m. today at Wages and Sons Funeral Home, Gwinnett Chapel, Lawrenceville.

Soon after graduating from North Carolina State University in 1975 with a business degree, Mr. Clody moved to Atlanta, where he found work in the computer industry.

"He was a computer whiz," said his son, Andrew Clody of Kennesaw. "He was in the forefront of computer engineering, involved with telecommunications companies, paging systems, cellular phones, things like that." "Bill was amazing," said his brother-in-law, Dr. Kenneth Carroll of Norcross. "He built his own computers, and if someone was having computer trouble, he could fix it. There was a time when we were getting pornographic pop-ups, and Bill solved the problem over the phone."

Fascinated by genealogy, Mr. Clody managed the Walker County section of the online GAGenWeb Project, part of the USGenWeb Project. "He traveled to Tennessee and North Carolina and compiled quite a family tree, going back some 200 years," Dr. Carroll said.

Mr. Clody also built his own model trains and helped his son Andrew refurbish a classic Ford Mustang, Dr. Carroll said. "He was a well-rounded person, up to date on everything, even medicine. He knew how to smooth things over and please people. He would listen quietly to a conversation, then could summarize everything that was said and tell you what you should do. Bill was a big man, but gentle as he could be, a gentle bear."

His wife, Emily Clody, died in 2002. Survivors include two other sons, Patrick Clody of Suwanee and Michael Clody of Raleigh.