Town Coordinator

To produce and maintain a town web site, you need software to design your page and put it on the server. There are some free web authoring tools around and several ftp programs to move files to and from the server. You can do simple searches on the web using terms like genealogy, background, graphics, etc. to find many places that make graphics that you can use for free. Do not copy graphics from the Internet unless you know they are public domain with no copyright restrictions. You can get an idea of what is needed on a website by looking at many of the other town sites. Look at the Middlesex County towns page and see how some of the them are done.

The requirements for a USGenWeb site are fairly simple -

MUST haves:

USGenWeb logo
Links to state and county sites
Name and e-mail (may be a non-clickable image)
Last updated notice

Should have:

Link to USGenWeb
Links to query pages
Links for e-mail lists
Listing of all town offices that a genealogist might need to contact
Links to vital records
Historical and genealogical societies
Cemeteries
Obituaries
Anything else you can think of and find to put on your site to help genealogists. Remember that history is inextricably linked with genealogy.

Rootsweb offers free site hosting on their server. They are completely free and have no advertising. I maintain access to all town sites so they can be transferred when volunteers move n to other things. I'll need contact information for all volunteers, which will remain strictly confidential.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at any time at the email address belwo.
If you are still interested, please email Michael Lewis.