The month of July has gone by in a whirlwind for me due to some new responsibilities. Effective July 1, I became the new statewide coordinator for the Tennessee component of the USGenWeb project, the TNGenWeb! I have been extensively involved with the NCGenWeb Project for several years now and have enjoyed every moment and when the opportunity arose to become more involved with TNGenWeb, I could not turn it down. As State Coordinator, I’ll work with others in the project to provide what we can in free genealogical resources for your family history research.
There is a lot to do in TNGenWeb but I am excited. For example, this weekend, we moved the whole project from one server to another so that we could take advantage of additional features. This in turn, allowed me to finally realize my dream of converting my Blount County, TN site from regular HTML into WordPress (yeah, I’m a WordPress fanatic).
Next on the agenda is to clean up some old files here and there and make sure our pages are as up to date as we can make them. Then, we have a site redesign coming in the next few months. If you have research interests in Tennessee, you’ll want to stay tuned! With news such as historical Tennessee newspapers coming online with the Chronicling America website, there are many tidbits we can pass along to help keep you informed.
Do you use TNGenWeb? If so, leave me a comment about what you like & don’t like. It will only help us make your experience better.