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Berne Historical Project - Newsletter

 

Welcome to the Berne Historical Project.

Happy

Holidays

Thursday, December 20, 2001

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Berne Heritage Days
We are planning a two or three day conference of people interested in Berne History and the genealogy of Berne families and would like your input for planning purposes.

 

Goals Activities
Increase knowledge of our Berne ancestors

See the actual sites of their farms and homes.

Visit the sites of the churches they attended.

Visit the cemeteries and see their headstones.

Meet cousins and fellow researchers of your family.

Join a workshop on using local resources to search for your Berne ancestors.
Learn about local history and how to research it.

Attend presentations on the settlement of Berne, Berne during the Revolution, etc.

Visit historic homes, churches and cemeteries.
Help preserve local history Join in restoring an abandoned cemetery.

 

Proposed Events
  Registration and sign-up for workshops and tours
  Get acquainted party or session
  Meeting of participants
  Tours
    Historic homes, churches and cemeteries.
    YOUR ancestor's home site and gravesite.
  Possible Workshops.
    Using local resources to research family genealogy
    Reading deteriorated tombstones and cemetery restoration
  Possible Lectures
    Settlement of Berne
    Berne in the Revolution
    History of Thatcher Park and Lake Resorts
    History of area churches
  Possible Meals
    Church supper
    Picnic
    Barbecue
  Possible Recreation
    Hayride and campfire with music and sing-a-long.
    Country Square Dancing
  Religious Service
    Sunday morning service at one of the local churches.

 

If you think you might be interested in participating in this Berne Heritage Days celebration please complete our survey to assist us in planning this event so it will be an enjoyable time for everyone.

 

Berne Hetitage Days Survey Form

 

Web Site Stats

We have moved Webstats to the bottom of the newsletter and will be showing the past 12 months.

 

Website Updates

Around Thanksgiving Harold Miller sent me a copy of the Berne Families genealogy. Using a program I found on the internet I was able to generate the html pages necessary to publish the genealogy on our website. It has turned out to be extreamley popular by the increase in visitors we are seeing in the Website Stats. We have also received many positive comments in our Guestbook.

 

I have been working on the new BHP website that will utilize Active Server Pages. I have the cemeteries and associated search pages completed and the layout of the main site search page is being tested. Soon after the holidays I will have a test version of this site available for any of the volunteers to test and provide me feedback. I'm hoping to have it completed and available to all by the end of February.

 

EMAIL Addresses

Our hosting arrangement with earthlink allows us five email addresses that are set up to forward to another address. We have set up the following addresses.

 

historian@bernehistory.org - This will be forwarded to Ralph Miller.

volunteer@bernehistory.org - This will come to Joan and Gordon and be used to solicit additional volunteers from the web page.

newsletter@bernehistory.org - Used to subscribe or unsubscribe to the newsletter.

webmasters@bernehistory.org - To get related information to Joan and Gordon.

 

From the Guest Book


Name: Joan 'Warner' Lewis
Email: JoannaRose@surewest.net
Date: Dec 7, 2001 01:01 PST
Location: Orangevale CA

Comments:
Wow! I am impressed. I just found out that you do have this site up and running. Since my ancestors from the Palatinate settled in Berne and Schoharie, back in 1710 and later, I am extremely happy that you have your website online and 'So much information' already...Thank you. I started researching my "WARNER" family lines last year. I have since developed a lot of information and am looking for a whole lot more. Someday I will get a chance to go 'Home' again. I am originally from Rome, Oneida County, NY. Only this time I will be visiting Berne, Schoharie, Middleburgh, Gloversville and a few other towns in NY in order to re-discover my roots.

Name: Ron Conners
Email: RConners@aol.com
Date: Dec 6, 2001 4:27 p.m. PST
Location: Berne

Comments:
You people have done a great job. I'm very impressed. You should all be extremely proud of your efforts. Thanks.

Name: Robert LeBuis
Email: rlebuis @aol.com
Date: Dec 16, 2001 06:31 PST
Location: Barneveld, NY

Comments:
Caught the article in The Enterprise and thought I would review the site! Good job!


Website Stats
Jan02
Feb02
Mar02
Apr02
May01
Jun01
Jul01
Aug01
Sep01
Oct01
Nov01
Dec01
Total Visitors
0
0
0
0
928
1605
2811
1955
2304
1644
2000
3698
Total Pageviews
0
0
0
0
2495
4370
9739
5652
7700
5455
6401
25921
Total Hits
0
0
0
0
10457
13466
27358
18886
24187
15859
17239
40743
Total Bytes Transferred
0
0
0
0
123m
165m
420m
239m
323m
245m
195m
358m
Average Visitors / day
0
0
0
0
77
53
90
63
76
56
66
184
Average Pageviews / Day
0
0
0
0
207
145
314
182
256
188
213
1296
Average Hits / Day
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0
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882
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806
546
574
2037
Average Bytes Xferred / Day
0
0
0
0
10.3m
5.51m
13.5m
7.71m
10.7m
8.45m
6.5m
17.9m
Average pageviews / Visitor
0
0
0
0
2
2
3
2
3
3
3
7
Average Hits / Visitor
0
0
0
0
11
8
9
9
10
9
8
11
Average Bytes / Visitor
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0
0
0
133522
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149440
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140459
149128
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Average Length of Visit
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0
0
0
356sec
382sec
292sec
492sec
394sec
358sec
398sec
1309sec

NOTE: December stats is only through December 19th. It looks like it's going to be a good month.

 

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