More notes on lines these pages already print.

June to September 1996

Wave one's note quotes the about page's opening two months: the Kentucky Comprehensive Genealogy Database Project organized in March and April 1996, with Jeff Murphy's idea for a single entry point. The same page continues for four more dated sections this note has not yet quoted: June 1996, July/August 1996, September 1996, and a closing section headed Into the Future.

All four sections sit on the one page wave one already opened, under their own headings, in the order printed below, without a break in the page between April's paragraph and June's.

June 1996, two projects at once

The page's June heading says: In June, as the Kentucky Project was coming to completion, it was decided to expand the project to include all states and USGenWeb was born. Volunteers were found who were willing to coordinate the collection of county pages for each state page, the same county-page structure this whole wave has been reading from the Colorado side specifically.

The same paragraph adds a second founding in the same month: Also in June, just 2 weeks or so after the beginning of The US GenWeb project, the World GenWeb project was begun, and several other countries become involved in the project. Two projects, one national and one international, both dated to June 1996 by this page's own wording, with just 2 weeks or so as the only gap the page gives between them, a looser phrase than the exact dates the rest of the timeline otherwise uses.

Two weeks is also the shortest gap given anywhere in this timeline between two stated events; every other transition in the page's six sections is described in months rather than weeks. The page names no specific day for either June founding, leaving both projects dated only to the month, unlike March and April's own more detailed account of the Kentucky pilot wave one already quoted in full.

July and August 1996, servers and names

The next section covers two months together rather than one: In July and August, the work progressed with many volunteers coming forward to assist. The USGenWeb domain was established, and many new state mailing lists were generated. Through collaboration with RootsWeb, server space was found for the files produced as a result of the project, the same RootsWeb name wave one's Larimer note already found thanking for hosting that one county's page specifically.

The same paragraph names a standardized Query and Surname entry form established there, and names two other parties by name: Gene Stark at Gendex and the folks at Gensource, described as other servers and key personalities involved in the project. Neither Gendex nor Gensource is mentioned anywhere in wave one's March/April note, since that note stopped before reaching this later paragraph on the same page.

RootsWeb, Gendex, and Gensource are three named outside parties in this one section alone, more than any other section of this six-part timeline names. The page credits all three with practical infrastructure, server space, a standardized form, rather than with an idea or a decision, a different kind of contribution than Jeff Murphy's own idea in March or the leadership change described without a name in September.

September 1996, a change in leadership

September's section is shorter: As more volunteers came forward, some of the original cadre were able to pass the reins of some of their responsibilities on to new enthusiastic helpers, freeing time for them to more fully concentrate on their other GenWeb states and counties. The leadership of the US GenWeb project also changed hands, but the original goal of the project remains unchanged.

The same section adds that a USGenWeb Bulletin Board was established, and many new county pages came on-line, especially the hard work of the state coordinators, the same job title this wave's note on Colleen Pustola's two mailto subjects already traces across three different pages for one specific person. No individual name is given for the leadership change itself; the paragraph describes the handoff without naming who passed the reins or who received them.

September's section is the only one of the six describing an internal change in who runs the project, rather than a new project, server, or form. It is also the only section built almost entirely around an unnamed event, the leadership change, bracketed by two named credits, the bulletin board and the new county pages, that the page attributes to specific kinds of people without individual names.

Into the Future, and the COGenWeb line

The page's final section, headed Into the Future, describes the project's resulting shape: a well organized effort to place genealogy materials on the Internet, supported by hundreds of volunteers all across the county, organized by states and counties with each county having a coordinator responsible for maintaining a site of resources. The page's own wording says county where state is likely meant, the same kind of unedited slip wave one's Larimer note already flagged for a different word on a different page.

The page states plainly: The COGenWeb Project is an outgrowth of this effort, tying everything from the Kentucky original idea through two founding months, a two-month build-out, and a leadership change directly to the county table and county pages this whole wave of notes has been reading in detail.

That single sentence is the only place on this page connecting the national story to the Colorado-specific project it introduces; everything before it describes the national effort alone, and everything the table holds, sixty-six rows, thirty-five named, thirty-one open, exists downstream of this one closing line.

What four months add up to

March and April: Kentucky's pilot project, organized by Jeff Murphy, with coordinators from Nancy Trice through Gail Meyer Kilgore named on this page as wave one quotes in full. June: USGenWeb born, and World GenWeb born in the same month, two weeks apart by the page's own loose phrase. July and August: the USGenWeb domain, state mailing lists, RootsWeb server space, and the named contributions of Gene Stark at Gendex and the unnamed folks at Gensource. September: a leadership change with no name attached on either side of the handoff, and new county pages arriving faster as a direct result of that same change.

One page, six months, four more names than wave one's note alone carried: Jeff Murphy already named there, and now Gene Stark, Gendex, and Gensource from the paragraphs that follow. March and April together take up roughly as much text as June, July, and August combined, while September and Into the Future are both comparatively short, a page that slows for its own founding story and speeds up once the project is already running.

How this connects back to a Colorado county table

The structure this page describes in general terms, state coordinators maintaining county-level resource sites, is the exact structure the county table at the center of this wave puts into practice for Colorado: sixty-six rows, thirty-five with a named coordinator, six of those names repeated across three rows each, as a separate note counts directly.

The about page's own sentence, each county having a coordinator responsible for maintaining a site of resources, describes an ideal the Colorado table only partly reaches: thirty-one of its sixty-six rows still read OPEN FOR ADOPTION, a gap between the national description and the one state's own table this wave has read row by row. The about page was written once, early in the project's own history, describing a structure it hoped every one of the fifty states would eventually fill in completely; Colorado's own table, read as it stands today, still shows that same structure partly unfilled, decades after the about page's own six months of founding history came to its own close.

Questions

Which project did the page say began two weeks after USGenWeb?

World GenWeb, in the page's own words, just 2 weeks or so after the beginning of The US GenWeb project.

Who does the page name in the July/August section?

Gene Stark at Gendex, and, without an individual name, the folks at Gensource.

Does the page name who took over leadership in September 1996?

No. It describes the handoff in general terms and says the original goal of the project remains unchanged, without naming who received the reins.