Welcome
to the NCGenWeb Volunteers Page
All counties
available for adoption will be listed on this page, as well as people
who would like to adopt specific counties in the future. If you are
interested in one of the listed counties, please write our state coordinator.
ADOPTABLE
PROJECTS:
-
Anson
-
Jones
(opportunity to coordinate or co-coordinate)*
-
New Hanover
(opportunity to coordinate or co-coordinate)*
-
Onslow
(opportunity to coordinate or co-coordinate)*
-
Robeson
-
Rutherford
-
Stokes
-
Tryon
*Co-hosting a county with a veteran coordinator is a GREAT WAY to learn
the ropes!
COUNTY
WISH LIST:
-
Ashe - LaRae Halsey-Brooks & Eireann Brooks
-
Beaufort - Ron Dailey
-
Buncombe - Fred Smoot
-
Cabarrus - John Starnes
-
Dare - Tammy Jennings
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Guilford - Katy Hestand
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Iredell - Katherine Benbow
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Jackson - April Brendle
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Mecklenburg - John Starnes, Katy Hestand
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Rowan - Katherine Benbow, Bettie Wood
-
Wilkes - Brenda Wagner, Linda Blum-Barton
: This list was revised on
July 19, 2007 :
Current
coordinators - if you need to place your county for adoption, please let us know so we can add
your county to the list. All county assignments must be approved by the
state Project leadership.
Don't
want to adopt a county, but would like to be involved? All the county
coordinators have thoughts about what they'd like to add to their pages,
but time doesn't always allow for transcribing primary reference material,
researching a particular place or subject, locating where/what reference
material is available, tracking down who has various cemetery records,
etc. If you'd like to offer your assistance to a particular county, e-mail
the county coordinator directly from the county page (list of county pages)
Obtaining
web space for your county page:
RootsWeb
offers free web space for USGenWeb pages and provides some useful
tools, scripts and other enhancements that you can use. If the county
site you are adopting is not currently on Rootsweb, and you want to
move it there, contact the NCGenWeb
State Coordinator.
There
are many other options for web space as well, and you are free to
choose whichever one best suits your needs. You may be allotted free
webspace as part of your personal account with your Internet Service
Provider (AOL, Earthlink, Mindspring, @Home, for example, provide
certain amounts of free webspace to their clients).
To find
recent listings of free webspace providers, try running a search for
"free webspace" on one of the major internet search engines.
Remember
in choosing a site that your page will be getting many visitors, and
you will want sufficient web space to develop a substantial site.
As a CC for NCGenWeb, you are required to
subscribe to the NCGENWEB e-mail list. This is our internal forum,
and the only means by which the state coordinator can reach all the
project coordinators at once.
Requirements
and recommendations for NCGenWeb county sites:
The
following guidelines are based on the bylaws
of the USGenWeb Project, the USGenWeb guidelines
for local pages, and past votes and discussion by the NCGenWeb
county coordinators.
Our national
project is "The USGenWeb Project" (note the spelling
in caps and lower case)
At the state level we are The NCGenWeb Project. Never use just "Genweb",
that name belongs to someone else.
The USGenWeb
project name and official
logo should be displayed on the home page of the county site.
A link to the project's main page. (http://www.usgenweb.org/)
is recommended.
The NCGenWeb
Logo (state map with dogwood) should be on all county home pages. There
are several versions of this logo, in several different colors, and
you may choose the one that best suits your page design. See
logos page.
Every
site must provide an easily accessible area
devoted to researchers' queries.
Every
site should provide some "basic" research help for the county.
Every
site must have a pointer to the State on its home page.
( http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncgenweb/).
It is
recommended that every page carry the following copyright notice:
© Copyright 2005 by (the name of the coordinator)
Be sure to update the year.
Solicitation
of funds for personal gain is forbidden. You may however provide links
to personal web pages where research services or materials are offered
for sale. You may also list materials for sale, for example publications
by your local genealogical society, but these should not be listed
on the main web page for your site. You may however provide a link
to these listings from your main page. You may also acknowledge the
server or organization that provides your web space.
All county
coordinators must subscribe to the NCGENWEB list. This is a closed
"announce only" list, and is used for internal communcation between the State Coordinator
(SC) and all County Coodinators (CC) and Special Project Volunteers.
The state coordinator will subscribe you to this list when you join
the project. There is an optional NCGENWEB-DISCUSS mailing list
which is also closed to NCGenWeb volunteers only, and is used for
more casual NCGenWeb discussions. Neither list is to be used for genealogy queries.
Additional
suggestions for your county page:
- A
brief history of the county, including if appropriate a link to
the home page for the parent county from which it was formed.
- A
map showing the location of the county within the state.
- A
link to the appropriate county page in the NCGenWeb
Archives Project
- Links
to other NCGenWeb special projects pages, and/or to our consolidated
list of North Carolina resources (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncgenweb/projects.html)
- Addresses,
phone numbers, and other contact information for the local county
courthouse, public library, historical or genealogical society
- Lists
of researchers for specific surnames in your county
- Names
of volunteers who will do lookups in local resources
- Links
to the home pages for neighboring counties
Copyright
Issues:
If you
look up information for people in published material, then you need
to be aware of the copyright
laws and USGenWeb's policy concerning copyrighted material. If
you have volunteers doing lookups for you, they need to be aware of
the policy, too.
It is
unethical to repost material from another web site without permission
of the author. Use a link instead.
Likewise,
graphics, backgrounds, scripts and HTML code developed by others should
not be used without permission of their creators. The USGenWeb guidelines
point out that this prohibition also applies to pages of links that
others have put together.
Most
genealogical records (census, marriage bonds, court records etc.)
are in the public domain and can be posted to your web site. However,
if someone else has transcribed these records, or compiled them into
an edited collection, that transcription or compilation is protected
by copyright and you should not post it verbatim without permission.
You may however make a new transcription or compilation of the original
records.
Copyright
to queries and any other data submitted your site resides with the
submitter.
If you
leave the USGenWeb project at some time in the future, material contributed
to your county page, including queries that have been posted, should
be turned over to the next coordinator.
Keeping
Your Page Active:
We understand
that our volunteers have jobs, families, and other commitments. Much
as we'd love to have you working on your page every day, we know that's
not a realistic expectation. On the other hand, our end users appreciate
it when web sites continue to develop with new information, and they
complain to us when sites are neglected. We therefore offer the following
guidelines for page maintenance:
If you're
not using an automated query-posting system, then try to post new
queries at least every two weeks. And if there's likely to be a delay,
please let submitters know that it may be a few days before they see
their query on the web.
Do something to your page at least every 6 to 8 weeks. Add a new link, collect
some information, whatever. If you don't have time to do even this
much, then this project has probably become a burden, not a pleasure,
and you should consider letting the page go to another host.
If we
find through whatever means - inspection, user complaints, etc. -
that a page has been totally unattended for three months or more,
and if repeated efforts to contact you by e-mail have failed, then
yes, we will move it to a new host.
Please
consider putting a "this page was updated on -----" message
on your home page. This is a courtesy to your repeat visitors. If
they come back to check your site periodically, they'd like to know
if there's anything new.
Finally,
a suggestion from a fellow CC:
It
is strongly advised that all county coordinators maintain a good sense
of humor. It will get you through a lot! ;-)
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