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Guidelines for Volunteers and Coordinators of the COGenWeb
USGenWebProject | CoGenWeb | Co. Counties | Colorado History| | Wish list | Reception Committee | HTML Help | CoGenWeb-rules | This page was created to help new comers to the COGenWeb project. Hopefully some of your questions will be answered here. Where possible, I have linked to other pages where you may find answers to your questions below. For the most part, we have tried to answer the questions to the best of our ability. Please, note , volunteer means that you would not be paid or expect payment for what you do. All information that has been put onto the COGenWeb pages has been done by volunteers. They are in no way compensated for the work they do, other than the "Thank you's" they receive from people they have been able to help. There are many ways to volunteer to help on the COGenWeb Project. I have listed some of them here: Adopt a county Even though all counties are being taken care of, there are still counties available for adoption. If the County you are interested in is not available you can add your name to the Wish List Co-Host a county Co-hosting a county with someone else is the best way to learn to adopt a county. While co-hosting, you would receive the email queries and surnames, etc., that people want posted to the county pages. You would need to make sure all the pertinent information was included with the request: email address, contact person, and that the query was written in good format. If it needs to be reworded, you could do that. Also, you would acknowledge the receipt of the query to the county, etc., then forward the query to the coordinator of that county for posting. While co-hosting, the host, or another host, can work with you on learning html and ftp coding and instructions. Some counties are using an automatic system to receive their queries and surnames, so they would not need someone to help with the county. Information Gathering You can volunteer to gather information from your county, or counties close to you. If you do not have internet access, you can get copies and mail them to the county coordinator via snail mail. Just contact the county coordinator for that particular county. Do lookups from local sources or from written material Volunteer to do research in public records that are available in the area where you live, or from books, etc, that you have available. We have several Special Projects in the works that can use some help. We have need of volunteers to obtain census records from different areas, old photographs of places and/or people of Colorado. And we have the need for people that can do translations, regardless of the languages they are able to work in. There are other projects as well. Transcribers The Census Project, Tombstone Project, and the Digital Archives Project can always use transcribers. Typing County Coordinators are constantly finding new material to post to their county pages, but find they could use some help in getting the material typed up and onto the computer for coding and posting to their pages. You could volunteer to type the material into the computer (at your home, and email the file to the coordinator, that way it is already on the computer, then the coordinator can code it and upload it to the web). Walk a cemetery County Coordinators are always interested in receiving information for their county. You could walk your local cemetery(ies) obtaining the names and dates from the headstones, recording the location of the headstone (plot/gravesite) and submit them to the coordinator for posting. These can also be used in the Tombstone Project. A suggestion: Some people use their local Girl Scout or Boy Scout troops to do this. Special Projects Links
The word Volunteer means many thing to many people, and is used in many different cases to mean something other than the standard definition found in the dictionary. In this case, within the USGenWeb and COGenWeb Projects, it means we "agree" to coordinate information for the County we have opted to host, with the only gratuity being the satisfaction of helping others. Many of us are coordinating Counties we have connections to with our own family searches. Which is fine! I started out that way, and I'm sure many others have too, and many more to come will also. When you Volunteer to coordinate a County for any of the State Projects within the USGenWeb, you do so knowing it is for the USGenWeb Projects, and the many visitors to that County. The USGenWeb does have certain requirements that have to be on your County Pages. States can, and do, impose additional requirements and guidelines. To Volunteer to coordinate a County in the COGenWeb, it must be with the understanding that you adhere to these Requirements and guidelines. USGenWeb Requirements http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/CCguidelines.shtml Please pay very close attention to the
Many of us came to these pages, this State, or the USGenWeb, looking for our ancestors. Sometimes we are lucky enough to be able to adopt the very County we are/were searching in. It is understandable that we would want to further our search for our own ancestors while coordinating that very county. However, please keep yours down to a low roar, and let others have a chance to find their ancestors, or submit their data too. We welcome members of the Historical and/or Genealogical Societies that wish to host a County in the COGenWeb Project. I have no objections to the Societies being noted on the pages, and even your Societies Logo (if you have one) being placed on the main page, just not as the predominant Logo. This is the COGenWeb Project, which is part of the USGenWeb Project, and that must be first and foremost.
Your County pages need to be updated at least monthly, and noted so at the bottom of your pages (this page last updated). Though it would be very acceptable if they were updated weekly. We would hope the queries would be that frequent anyway. Even a very slow county gets at least one per month. If there are more than one per month, I would hope they would be posted as soon as possible. I realize some have other things to do besides sit at their computer working in the county pages. (Like making a living, to feed those hungry mouths - pay the bills - housekeeping (ugh!) cooking, hey .. they gotta eat that food you worked to buy..little things, you know <gg>) I don't believe any of us can say we don't have even 1 hour per week to do our updating. Page Evaluation-Sweeps As new county pages are put up they will be checked by the State Coordinator or Assistant State Coordinator for the required elements and to be sure your links work. We will let you know when they have visited your page. If there are any problems with links or if any of the required elements missing. We let you know so you can make any changes or corrections that are needed. Post a message to the Colorado County Coordinators mail list or to the State Coordinator when your pages are ready. We will also periodically check the County pages for the same types of problems. When we do we will send you and email to let you know what needs to be fixed. If the problems are not corrected in a reasonable time frame, you will be contacted again. Non-Profit The USGenWeb Projects, of which the COGenWeb Project is a part of, is a Non-Profit entity. In other words we put this information up for FREE access by all, 24 hrs. a day, and 7 days a week. No one will be charged for any of the efforts by the Coordinators, as hosts to a county in the COGenWeb Project. If you should come across one that is charging for access to page, I would like to know about it. no money requests (this does not mean you cannot ask for reimbursement for your out of pocket expenses, like copying & mailing fees, etc.) This should be noted on the lookups page, not on the main page. Copyright Infringement Our goal is to provide free information but we must do it legally. No matter how tempting it is to upload useful data to our county pages, we must avoid copyright infringement. Copyright is ownership of the author, creator or publisher of a given work. Copyright gives the owner the right to benefit from his/her labor. To avoid copyright infringement, follow these four basic rules:
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Thank you for visiting the COGenWeb Project!
Colorado State Coordinator Gail Meyer Kilgore
Assistant State Coordinator: Ann Allen Geoghegan
Assistant State Coordinator
Information last updated Wednesday, 04-Jun-2008 22:58:21 MDT
Colorado GenWeb Site, Pages and Content are Copyright ©
by Scott All Rights Reserved for CoGenWeb
background Copyright © 2005 Mary Ann Hetrick
COGENWEB logo ©1998- The COGenWeb was designed by Leroy Oldham for the limited use only on an official COGenWeb page.
USGenWeb Project logo © USGenWeb Project and rights are limited to use on an official USGenWeb Project
Colorado State Coordinator Gail Meyer Kilgore
Assistant State Coordinator: Ann Allen Geoghegan
Assistant State Coordinator
Information last updated Wednesday, 04-Jun-2008 22:58:21 MDT
Colorado GenWeb Site, Pages and Content are Copyright ©
by Scott All Rights Reserved for CoGenWeb
background Copyright © 2005 Mary Ann Hetrick
COGENWEB logo ©1998- The COGenWeb was designed by Leroy Oldham for the limited use only on an official COGenWeb page.
USGenWeb Project logo © USGenWeb Project and rights are limited to use on an official USGenWeb Project