This note will vary from some of the traditional fare but it is still related to the Germanna Colonies. For a few years, I have had a very primitive web page which I kept updated by typing at the keyboard. There were no photos or images to slow things down and that was the advantage of it.
I decided, though, that it was time that I brought my web page into the modern world. For a few days now I have had the rudiments of a new page up. There is still a long way to go. I was not even sure how much information I could store in my allotted ten megs of space on the host server. Now that I have some pages with a small number of images, I have a better feel for how much can be included.
I would appreciate it if you sent me feedback as to how the page appears on your browser. Please send it to me privately (my personal address is Page"> JVBlankenbaker@gmail.com ) and not to the List. Sending it to the List can only be embarrassing. I have tried it at home on Microsoft Internet Explorer (version 6), and on Netscape 4. They work OK. Eleanor tried it at work, and a few problems turned up. I tried it here with Netscape 7 and the net result is not the best. I think I know how I can improve the results in these cases.
I had a couple of objectives in mind as I made up the site. I wanted to give a short summary of what was in the issues of Beyond Germanna since day 1, which was back in January of 1989, something I had never done. So far I have only the last two years in, but maybe I can try to do "one-a-day" or "one-a-week". Another objective was to give people a better idea as to what activities I was engaged in.
Most of the space will be devoted to Beyond Germanna , but I hope to have several pages about Germanna itself. You may note that I referenced the names of settlers, but I gave none. That is future work. Then a few pages are taken up with explanations of my CD project and my work with laminated photos. Also, pages will be devoted to The Culpeper Classes, and to the Hebron Communion Lists.
When someone stumbles on the name Germanna, they will have a lot of information available from my site , from the Germanna Colonies Family History Web Site , managed by George, and from the Foundation's work. I have only a few external links in the site (mainly to see if I had the hang of it) but I anticipate having more.
At least, it is all mine and I do not have to share it with any advertiser. It has been a learning experience that has only started. The address of my site is
http://www.germanna.com
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(25 Nov 02)
We gratefully acknowledge the work of John Blankenbaker who published over 2,500 Germanna History Notes via the Germanna-L@rootsweb.com email list from 1997 to 2008. We are equally thankful to George Durman (Sgt. George) for hosting the list and republishing the notes via rootsweb.com.