More notes on lines these pages already print.

The page for no county in particular

The county table's first row, before Adams, names Unknown County and links to a real page, http://cogenweb.com/unknown/. Where Created, Parent, and County Seat would normally sit, this row prints a period in each of those three cells. The Coordinator cell, unlike those three, is a working mailto link to Rebecca Maloney, the same name a separate note in this wave already counts on Garfield and Grand as well.

The page behind that link is not blank and not a placeholder. It is a built page with its own stated purpose, its own resource list, and its own staff block, longer in places than some of the real county pages this project has quoted.

Welcome to the Colorado Unknown County page

The page's own welcome line explains who it is for: a researcher who has just discovered a tidbit of information about one of their ancestors, such as a census report stating your grandfather was born in Colorado, when your family was all from Anywhere, USA until this one scribble on one record. Anywhere, USA is the page's own phrase, in that capitalization, standing in for any place outside Colorado at all.

The page says it hopes to help that researcher find genealogy research information to add to your family tree, and suggests checking Colorado Counties for a complete list of each of the counties once a county name is known. It asks the reader to please contact me with any information you would like to add to this page, in the first person, the same first-person voice Rebecca Maloney uses in her footer credit further down.

That link, Colorado Counties, points a visitor who has since learned a county name back toward the same sixty-six-row table this whole wave has been reading in detail, closing the loop between a page built for not knowing and the table built for knowing exactly. The page frames itself as a waiting room of sorts, a stop before a county name is found rather than a destination in its own right, and its own wording never pretends otherwise.

What the page offers in place of a county

Below the welcome text, the page lists an Evolution of Colorado Counties resource, described as showing the counties throughout Colorado and when they formed, so you can possibly locate where your ancestors lived. It also lists Queries sorted by year, from Prior to October 1999 through 1998 and 1999, split further into surname ranges A-G, H-O, and P-Z for one of those years, and a separate note that surnames posted in 1998 can be viewed at their own link.

Further down, the page names external resources with no county attached to any of them: Abandoned Little Known Airfields of Colorado, a Historical Highway Marker Database, Historical Places - National Registery for Colorado (printed with that spelling of Registery), and Officers killed in the Line of Duty, four resource names in a row with no further description attached to any of the four.

None of these four resources sorts by county the way the table or the Queries lists do; each is a single statewide list a researcher would need to search through on their own, independent of whichever county their ancestor eventually turns out to have lived in. Their presence on a page meant for someone who does not yet know a county name makes a certain sense: a statewide list costs a searcher nothing to check before a county is even identified, unlike the county table's own sixty-six rows, which only become useful once a name is already in hand.

Two titles for one maintainer

The page's footer names Rebecca Maloney twice, with two different titles: This page is maintained by Rebecca Maloney, Special Projects Coordinator, and lower on the page, in a staff list, Webmistress Rebecca Maloney, a second and visibly different job title for the same person on the same page.

A separate note in this wave already counts Rebecca Maloney as a two-county coordinator, on Garfield and Grand. Neither of her titles on this page is County Coordinator, the title the table's other named rows carry by implication rather than by a printed word. Special Projects Coordinator and Webmistress are both different words for a different kind of role than the one Denise Wells or Bob Jenkins hold on their own three-county rows.

Three titles for one person, across three separate pages, is a pattern this wave finds more than once; Colleen Pustola's own three differently-worded titles, covered in a separate note on her two mailto subjects, follow the identical shape. Neither Rebecca Maloney's page nor Colleen Pustola's rows cross-reference the other's title for either woman, leaving a reader to notice the pattern only by reading both pages side by side, the same way this note and that one were each built.

A warning the page prints for its own visitors

The page includes a caution not found quoted on any wave one article: if someone contacts you about helping you on your research, it is a good idea to check for costs before agreeing to anything, followed by the statement that volunteers connected with the USGenWeb and COGenWeb Projects will not ask for compensation, though they may, occasionally, ask for reimbursement for copies made and postage. The page states this as a plain warning, not as a rule it claims to enforce.

The page then lists a small staff block: State Coordinator Colleen Pustola, a role marked ASC Coordinator, a role marked Special Proj Coord, and Webmistress Rebecca Maloney. Colleen Pustola's state-level title here matches the one wave one's note on the about page already found for her; this page repeats the same role under a shortened label rather than contradicting it.

ASC Coordinator is a shortened form of Assistant State Coordinator, the fuller title wave one's about-page note already quotes for Colleen Pustola; the staff block uses the short form in one line and the longer State Coordinator title in another, both referring to roles Colleen Pustola occupies according to the other two pages this wave has read. Special Proj Coord is the same shortened form of Special Projects Coordinator the page's own maintenance line spells out for Rebecca Maloney two paragraphs earlier, so the staff block's four lines in fact describe only two people, not four, once matched back to the fuller titles given elsewhere on the page.

A page built around not knowing yet

Every other page this wave and wave one together have read starts from a known county name: a table row, a coordinator's own mailto, a dedicated county page like Broomfield's. The Unknown County page is built around the opposite starting point, a researcher who knows an ancestor was somewhere in Colorado and nothing more specific than that, which is why its own Created, Parent, and County Seat cells in the table hold periods rather than real values.

That makes the page a genuine outlier among the sixty-six rows in one more way beyond its structural one: every other row describes a place, while this row's own linked page describes a problem a researcher is trying to solve, with the resource lists and the staff block existing to help solve it rather than to describe a county's own history, population, or boundaries the way Broomfield's page or the table's other rows otherwise do throughout this wave. A reader arriving here already knows less than a reader arriving at any other page in this wave, and the page's own structure, welcome first, then resources, then a staff block, is built to move that reader toward knowing more rather than to describe a fixed place.

Questions

Does the Unknown County page describe an actual county?

No. It is a research-aid page for someone who knows an ancestor lived in Colorado but does not yet know which county.

Who maintains the page, and under what title?

Rebecca Maloney, named as Special Projects Coordinator in the page's own maintenance line and as Webmistress in its staff list.

Why does the table's Unknown County row show periods instead of dates?

Because it does not describe a real county with a founding year, a parent county, or a county seat — the three facts those columns hold for every other row.