http://www.thegaproject.org/blog Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:40:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of my very first contributions to GAGenWeb was the transcription of an Antioch Church Sunday School Minute Book from Fayette County, GA covering the years 1846 - 1873.  It had been handed down through my family along with several original, hand written church letters of individuals.  Antioch's records had ... http://www.thegaproject.org/blog/2008/07/31/church-records/ I'll get the ball rolling on the introduction thing Virginia mentioned on the GAGenWeb mailing list. I am Vivian Price Saffold. I have always lived in Chamblee, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta. I am currently a writer/editor/researcher by trade, although my professional background is newspaper editing and management. I am ... http://www.thegaproject.org/blog/2007/09/15/21/ Sometimes we assume that everyone knows about their County Mailing List (many of them are through Rootsweb), but I wanted to speak about how helpful the County List can be for letting everyone  know about your pages, your work, as well as be a valuable resource for researchers in the ... http://www.thegaproject.org/blog/2007/07/24/email-county-mailing-list/ The 2007 USGenWeb elections are currently underway. This election is particularly important to the GAGenWeb Project. Please take time to get to know the candidates and understand the issues. Then vote! If you need help, or have questions, please let me know. Thanks! Vivian http://www.thegaproject.org/blog/2007/07/07/2007-usgenweb-elections/ Jacqueline "Jackie"  King Feb. 10, 1949-June 29, 2007 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 ... http://www.thegaproject.org/blog/2007/07/01/jacqueline-jackie-king/ Someone sent me a marriage file typed in .odt format. 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 free and opens all kinds of documents.  (I did this one since it seemed so simple, and also because ... http://www.thegaproject.org/blog/2007/06/19/odt-files-opening-and-posting/ 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 ... http://www.thegaproject.org/blog/2007/06/18/photo-resizing-software/ Hello, everyone, 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! http://www.thegaproject.org/blog/2007/06/10/14/ All of us who work with the GAGenWeb were saddened by the very sudden death of Ken Johnson on Oct 17, 2006. Ken was such an integral part of the Archives. The counties that he maintained in Georgia were numerous and we know he helped so many, many researchers along ... http://www.thegaproject.org/blog/2007/06/09/kenneth-d-johnson/ "Bill Clody, organized Suwanee swim team" 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 ... http://www.thegaproject.org/blog/2007/06/09/bill-clody/