Hillsboro County MA USGenWeb Project Help Guidelines/Standards - Hillsboro County Town Pages
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The
USGenWeb Logo:
The USGenWeb Project logo should be prominently displayed on your page.
"Prominent" in Hillsboro County means at the top of the page (i.e. in the first
screen accessed.)
Town Resource Page:
Every town should provide some basic research help for their town. For instance, many of
the town coordinators have provided a list of names, addresses and phone numbers for the
town court clerk, library, and genealogical and/or historical societies, book suppliers
and where appropriate the local Chamber of Commerce.
Town Lookup Page:
Every town should have a bibliography page showing the reference books available for their
town. Lookups should be offered if you or your volunteers have received permission to do
so from the book's author or publisher or the reference books you have available meet the
copyright policies of The USGenWeb Project. At the very least, look-ups should be provided
for the printed Vital Records to 1849, for your town. (No copyright).
Query Page:
Hillsboro County does not have a query page in each town.
Queries are directed to the County page and people are encouraged to subscribe to the
Hillsboro County mailing list. ME can provide you with the code to link to
the County Query page.
Rollcall Page: (Optional)
Many towns have a Rollcall page which is simply a list of user researchers by surname
including their e-mail address. This serves as a connection page in that everyone can see
who is researching a surname an is given a means of contacting them.
(Example1: "STEVENS family 1680's - 1740's" John Deer JD@abc.com)
{Example2:
"John STEVEN, 1690's -1730's" John Deer JD@abd.com)
Links to County/Town Pages:
Each town page must have a link to the County Page as well as links to the Towns that are
geographically adjacent and on-line. Fred can provide the appropriate URLs.
A link to the New Hampshire State page:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nhhillsb/index.htm
is required as well as to the USGenWeb Project page:
http://www.usgenweb.org/
Mail List Links:
As an assist to our users, Hillsboro County pages provide links for subscription to
Hillsboro County and Northeast-Roots-L mailing lists. Contact me for appropriate code.
Website Copyright:
It is recommended that all websites within The USGenWeb Project, carry the following
copyright notice:
Copyright 1998 by (the name of the coordinator)
Be sure to update the year.
Mail Lists Subscription Recommendations for Town Coordinators:
If you have not already done so, you need to join the mail list for Hillsboro County
Mailing list, join by sending a message to NHHILLSB-L-request@rootsweb.com
with subscribe as the body of the message. There is also a mailing list for all volunteers
to informally discuss issues of importance to the USGenWeb Project. etc. Join by sending a
message to USGenWeb-All-L@rootsweb.com Note: This list is sometimes very active. You may
want to subscribe in digest form (substitute -D for -L in the above.)
Page Evaluations:
As new town pages are put up on the web, they will be checked by someone by the county
coordinator(s) for the required elements and to be sure your links work. Your evaluator
will let you know when they have visited your page. If there are any problems with links
or any required elements missing, they will let you know so you may make any changes or
corrections. Send a message to ME when
you are ready for your page to be checked.
The USGenWeb Project policy on HTML code, graphics, etc.:
It is the policy of The USGenWeb Project to obtain permission from the creator of the
code, graphics, and backgrounds before using them on our pages unless they have been
placed in the public domain. If you find yourself having used someone's code without their
permission, please either obtain that permission or remove that feature from your pages.
This includes pages of links that others have put together.
Conclusion:
Beyond these few "bare essentials", your page is yours to do with as you please.
Should there be any changes made in the basic guidelines/standards, you will be notified
by your county coordinator and this website will be updated. I'm willing to help you with
your page. Please contact ME for any
questions however trivial, they may seem to you.
Feedback:
Our goal is to continually update and improve the information we provide here and we
welcome your comments and/or suggestions about this site; please contact ME.