COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEES

We just don’t do very well in our society without communicating. We want to share the wealth of information that our families have collected about our ancestors. This process includes a fair amount of communicating. We have chosen to do this through a John Marriott Historical Society Website. This is also key to the concept of storage. By taking our boxes, stacks, books and other holders and scanning them, we have a permanent storage system that is available to anyone who has a computer. Uploading scanned information is the key to building our website library of family information. Free downloading to our membership and friends is the key to “SHARING WITH THE FAMILY”. When we share we also give others a chance to add lost information and make corrections to our information. A quarterly newsletter will capture new “stuff” about which we are excited to share and help us stay organized.

GENERAL CHAIR: Margo Shaw


Website Subcommittee

Mission
We have chosen the John Marriott Historical Society website as the primary method of communication to the Marriott Family at large and to our wonderful members. We still can send messages by postage, but because of the cost, have chosen our priority to
be the website. This exiting technological advance, using the internet has opened our eyes to endless possibilities of sharing, storing, viewing, building and enabling the story of the Marriott family to be known to all of us. Many of us have boxes of “stuff”, of history, of great ancestral worth. It is unusable because it is in our closets and attics and garages. NOW IS THE TIME TO SHARE. Many noble histories will be found for the first time by people who thought an ancestor’s past was lost by the years. IT IS UP TO US TO FIND AND MAKE KNOW AND SHARE.

Functions:

  1. Manage website sitemap, the 1FN ISP and website the development contract.
  2. Manage chairs assignments to populate website and help distinguish items among the 4 generations of ancestors and manage that limitation on the website.
  3. Develop team who can provide HTML typing to update website as things change.
  4. Coordinate use of PayPal for website “on line store” with finance committee.
  5. Create website links to our websites in the “links” section of website for member’s family websites and for subscribing vendors and sponsors.
  6. Train people in connecting to the LDS Church website www.familysearch.org and other linked websites.
  7. Do training of webmasters of JMHS members who want to create their own family websites, using the JMHS website as a template.
  8. Help our families creating their own family websites to connect with ours

Chair and Webmaster: Shelley Paige

Committee Members: Kathy Marriott- Provo, UT

Projects:
  1. Populate the website.
  2. Train people in uploading and downloading from the website.
  3. Be responsible for the upload “holding tank” of items for distribution to committee chairs and for returning unused items and moving useable items to correct locations on the website after approval from chairs and receipt of agreement.
  4. Build site map for website with Nat Carson of 1FN.

 

Newsletter Subcommittee


Mission
The JMHS quarterly newsletter is the major communications vehicle of the organization for its members. Committee chairs are the main people responsible for quarterly contributing articles. There will be a section for each Standing Committee and Subcommittee, in the newsletter. We hope that our members will also feel free to contribute articles, photos, etc. Functions:
  1. News
  2. Calendar of events
  3. Birthdays
  4. Quarterly highlight
  5. Committee of the quarter story
  6. Yearly special series of stories
  7. New members stories
Chair/Editor: Sherry Morris

Committee Members: Helen Watters

Projects:

  1. Orientation of committee with Jackie Westergard
  2. First newsletter of this era due in May-June 2004

 

Public Relations Subcommittee

Mission
Telling the story of the John Marriott Historical Society is a critical function in its growth and fulfillment of it goals and purposes. It will take hundreds of people in the family as well as friends to reach out and save our printed and oral family history from being lost to death and people throwing it away because they are not interested in it. We must share our story with ourselves and others through public relations.

Functions:

  1. Press releases about events of the society
  2. Offer creative stories of our ancestry as part of events of cities and communities where our relatives played a key role
  3. Participate in national and local conferences and conventions regarding family histories
  4. Build connections, links with other organizations who have similar goals

Chair: position open

Committee Members: position open

Projects:

  1. Contact myfamily.com, ancestry.com and other internet organizations that are involved in genealogy and family history.
  2. Contact Ogden, Salt Lake, Layton and other newspaper editors to see if they would be interested in our story.

 

Marketing Subcommittee

Mission
We are not really in the business of selling our organization, for a profit, but for a “non-profit”. We need income to grow the organization. We can receive help because of our large size from for profit organizations that provide services in the family history and genealogical research areas. We will invite these organizations to advertise on our website and in our publications for a fee and offer our members a discount.

Functions:

  1. Contact professional genealogical research companies, publications, providers of equipment like scanners and computers, and other organizations that could advertise with us for a fee and offer discounts to our members.
  2. Make a list of conventions and conferences that we could be part of.
  3. Market the Red Book and other books that we publish to members and others.

Chair: position open

Committee Members: position open

Projects:

  1. Free Gift or Special Offer- for people who bring in 5 family members.


Member Communications Subcommittee

Mission
Our goal is for our organization’s leadership to have access to all of our members, to facilitate accurate and timely communication. We have a large list of members that needs to be constantly updated as people move, die and new people are added to the organization. This committee will keep the master list of members on the website in our secure area. They will send out newsletters and email bulletins on events and new additions to the website to our members.

Functions:

  1. Maintain the Permanent Email List.
  2. Phone Calling- Have a group of telephone tree callers to remind members about meetings and events. Also, keep the membership list up to date.
  3. Newsletter Distribution- Use stamps and envelopes for those who pay $5 per year because they don’t have a computer for email. Establish a realistic budget.

Chair: position open

Committee Members: Susan Ickes

Projects:

  1. Update the 9/24/97 membership directory of 625 members, most have phone numbers and addresses that need to be called.
  2. Email list- Contact Paula Kyle to help 805-366-7501 (old)- Bill Morris.
 
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