Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 00:04:20 -0700
From: Brian Leverich
This isn't jumping the gun; this is great!
I think maybe "Just do it" should be the organizational motto.
Coordinate with other folks as needed, but when you see something
that needs done then "just do it".
Also BTW, I'm personally up to my elbows working with Larry and
Karen on the Maiser move, so whatever you do please don't wait on
me. If you need resources from RootsWeb, though, beat on me until I
serve them up. -B
Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L
RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/
From: myra_gormley@prodigy.com (MYRA V GORMLEY)
Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 11:38:25, -0500
Subject: Mottoes, et al
... I still find Internet International Genealogical (or Genealogy?)
Society difficult to say as opposed to: International Internet Genealogical Society, but this Puget Sounder
(Washington state for the U.S.-geographically impaired) suffers from
a speech impediment caused by an Oklahoma childhood and young
adulthood in Germany (ever hear German with an Okie twang?)
I have been thinking about mottoes and came up with the following for
consideration: Linking Our Lines, Linking Families, Linking Lineages, Global Connections
Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG
myra_gormley@prodigy.com
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/4066/
http://www.rootsweb.com/~okmuskog/okmuskog.htm
http://www.rootsweb.com/~okmcinto/okmcinto.htm
http://www.dsenter.com/itgenweb/itcreek
Dr. Leverich's letter that begins, "Based on interest expressed by
many folks, Rootsweb wuold like to sponsor the creation of a
nonprofit Internet International Genealogical Society with the
following mission:" was published in yesterday's issue of Myra
Vanderpool Gormley's and my "Missing Links: A Weekly Newsletter for
Genealogists," and distributed to nearly 4,000 subscribers, some of
whom are in interesting places like Australia and South Africa. Myra
and I hope this will help to get the ball rolling.
Perhaps Latin would be appropriate for use with the logo? Pax et
Familia?
Julie Case, Julie_Case@prodigy.com, Julie_Case@prodigy.net
Home Page -- http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/5391
Regarding the name ... International Internet Genealogy Network or
Worldwide Internet Genealogy Society sound good. What about a
combination of the two? Worldwide Internet Geneology Network.
And regarding slogans: I don't really like mottoes, etc, but do think a
line explaining what this is all about would be nice. In that vein, the
line Exploring Our Global Heritage would be nice. Maybe even something
a little longer and more descriptive ... I vote "forget a motto, but do
have a descriptive line".
Barbara Weaver
I'm not serious about this, but notice that GI with suitable changes of
endings could stand for Genealogy International in German, French, Spanish
and Italian as well as English, whereas IIGS would require rearrangement of
the acronym in three of these languages, and I suppose a G for Gesellschaft
or maybe V for Verein in German, instead of S for Society (Socie'te', etc.).
:-) ???
Gordon Fisher gifhser@shentel.net
My guess is that "internet" came from "intercommunication" (or possibly
"interconnecting") and "network". As I recall, "internet" was preceded by
"Internet", which was preceded by "BITNET", which was preceded by "USENET",
which was preceded by "ARPANET". And now "internet", and "WWW" or "the
web", have become confounded, not to mention complex. By the way, is an
inter-gnat a bug on the internat-ional inter-net?
Gordon Fisher gfisher@shentel.net
In a word no. International communications exists without the internet and
the internet can exist without being international. I do not believe we are
saying the same thing, perhaps a joining of the two. Internet in of itself
does not break out to mean INTERnational NETwork, if that is where this
thought is going, I do not believe it has ever meant that. This society is international in scope, utilizes the internet to accomplish that task and it pertains to genealogy. Just my thoughts on this.
Regards, John Pimentel, pimentel@roots.ultranet.com
GLOBAL stills *sounds* better than INTERNATIONAL to me. Has anyone put up a FAQs page yet? I've tried to catch every notice, but might have missed one in the avalanche. Looking at a couple info pages: The non-graphic ones are better, quicker, easier to read than those with frames. My 2c.
Lee Huff, leehuff@connecti.com
The concept is fantastic and I eagerly await the actual project but in
the meantime I think this is way over my head...how can I unsubscribe. I commend all you talented folks!
Barbara Farthing Bonham, The Family Snitch, bfbonham@sprintmail.com
After reading all day in between coffee and bathroon breaks, I will cast my
vote GIGS and I think you all are doing a fine job at steering this monster
down the highway. Keep up the good work. Isn't it a good thing you all arn't
in the same room ?
Jsmith29@aol.com
How about keeping the name of this group, IIGS, as a tribute to the founder(s) who came up with the name.
Daryl, dlytton@primenet.com
Sounds good. Speakers of other languages can just use the acronym itself,
either letter by letter, or pronounced in their phonetics. (In the USA
scientists speark of CERN (which they customarily pronounce as a word,
"sairn" in English phonetics), without, in many cases, thinking of it as
the Centre Europe'enne de Recherche Nucle'aire.)
Admittedly "eegs" (English phonetics again -- in generalized continental
European phonetics, "iigs" itself would probably do) doesn't sound as
familiar as "wigs" or "gigs" (short for "gigobytes" or slang for
"engagements", rhymes with "jigs", "pigs", etc.) to English-speakers, but
"eegs" would be distinctive. (And recall that the letter "w" is scarce in
Romance languages, and that "gigs" might get pronounced "jigs", etc.)
In fact, thinking about it, I've grown quite fond of the sound of "eegs".
On ward and outward, IIGS; !
Gordon Fisher gfisher@shentel.net
Oh yeah! I dig DIGS!
Best regards, Bill
Lansdale, PA, USA
I like GIGS. But whatever it's called as long as it grows and becomes
an influence throughtout the world and accomplishes the main task
of bringing together in some fashion or form the 100,000+ projected
internet genealogists then all the better.
Rgds, John Pimentel, pimentel@roots.ultranet.com
From: Chris Myers
Subject: Re: GI instead of IIGS, etc. (2nd take)
You could substitute Association or Organization
for Society since this is somewhat different from a traditional
Genealogical Society.
IIGS also is the name for my trusty old Apple computer. Anyway, that
was my first thought when seeing this abbreviation. My preference is
for an abbreviation which makes a word.
From: Steve/Betty Snow