THE WAY WE WERE
Being A History of the Late, Great USGenWeb Project
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By some of the Participants

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That people do not learn very much from history is the most important
of all the lessons history has to teach. ---Aldous Huxley


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Dramatis Personae "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts . . . " [Being a somewhat complete listing of Who's Who in USGenWeb]

CHAPTER I. PREHISTORY [Gary Hoffman's GenWeb, The Comprehensive Kentucky Database Project]

CHAPTER II. WE BEGIN [the Official Story, The founding of the USGenWeb Project, Early Days, the founding of the USGenWeb Project Archives]

CHAPTER III. TROUBLE BREWS [Getting rid of Jeff Murphy, Getting rid of Bill Couch, Getting rid of Jeff Weaver]

CHAPTER IV. NATIONAL COORDINATOR BLUES [A reprise of the tenures of the Project's first seven National Coordinators]

CHAPTER V. BOARD TO TEARS [Being some histories of USGenWeb Advisory Board tenures]

CHAPTER VI. THE CENSUS WARS [Or How I Learned to Love the Archives and Stop Worrying]

CHAPTER VII. THE DILL EPISODE [Read about how a sincere desire to help out one's friends got turned into the biggest conspiracy since The Grassy Knoll]

CHAPTER VIII. THE ARCHIVES PROJECT [More trouble than its worth? You decide.]

CHAPTER IX. TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS [or The USGenWeb Project Eats Its Young]


© 1999-2007 by Teresa Lindquist, all rights reserved. The opinions expressed above are solely those of the author; they may not reflect those of the USGenWeb Project or its members. The USGenWeb Project Advisory Board does not endorse this site and is not affiliated with it. Several people have helped me research this material, I'd like to thank them by name, but as they are still project members to do so would invite reprisals against them. So You Know Who You Are, and you have my thanks!