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Volunteering To Host a Wisconsin County
What are my responsibilities as a County host?
1. Providing raw data on a specific County. Any information
you want to provide: Census, Cemeteries, Marriages, Deaths, Histories, Biographies, etc.
We hope to eventually have complete data for each County, but by beginning with the
documents you already have it's a great start. Every little bit helps someone!
2. Include a History of your County. Let visitors know what
your County was all about. You can include photographs, biographies, public officials from
the past. There are many things that can be included under this subject.
3. Linking other pages that pertain to your County, by
request or permission. Any homepage linked should pertain to your County, and should
contain genealogical and/or historical content, which includes surnames. If someone is
unable to make a web page of their own, and donates their records for use on your County
pages, you are responsible to place that information online, giving copyright to the
person who submitted the material.
4. You need to provide a link to the
main Wisconsin Page on your main page. Your main page must include the
designated Logo of this network. You are free to do your page in any manner you like,
as long as the above is followed. It is your choice as to whether you add surnames and queries, libraries and
societies, etc. You may want to ask your visitors what they prefer and what they'd like to see.
5. WI ALHN Mailing List
is available for you to post a help question or to announce what is new on your site. All WI ALHN CC's are on the
mailing list... It is there for you to use or not.
Can I adopt a Town or
Township instead of a County?
YES! If covering an entire
County is difficult for you because of time and resources, adopting a town in that County
is a great idea. We're happy to have volunteers at a County level. We would be happy to
have volunteers who prefer to cover a topic in a township too, such as religion, history,
cemeteries, occupations, etc. We can easily link your page to the County it falls under.
Many researchers have a great knowledge of the specific area their ancestors lived in.
This is a wonderful way to help. Just email us and let us know what area you would be
interested in covering and we'll get you added.
I am unable to
adopt a County. Are there other ways I can help?
Yes!! If you would like to
volunteer to do any of the following, we'd love to have you on our team. By submitting the
data you have collected in your research, or placing it online for linking, you can be a
huge help to others who may be researching the same families or the same areas. You can
submit information to the State host or your County host.
Click on email SC, to left, if you have an idea for something about a county you would like to see included, be it
stories about your family, businesses of days gone by,famous people or history articles
about places in the county or the people who lived here... please let us include it in
this site.
Obituaries - If you collect obituaries or have access to obituaries and
would like to share them with visitors to this website, we would be happy to include them.
Maps - If you collect old Wisconsin Plat Maps, please feel free to send them.
We will post them online!!!
Photographs - If you have any old Wisconsin Photographs, please
contribute them to this site.
Cemetery Records - If you live in Wisconsin and are willing to record
the tombstone inscriptions in any of the counties cemeteries, please let us know, we will add them to the site.
Church Records - If you have access to and are willing to type pages
from church records... please allow us to add them to the site.
History Transcribers - If you have access to books about Wisconsin
history and are willing to type (or scan) pages from them... let us know, we would love to add them to this
site.
Where do I place my pages? Does it cost me
anything?
You are free to place your pages anywhere you want them. Free space has generously been provided for this site by
USGenNet, which you can use or there are many others to chose from.
What about graphics?
There are some graphics available, see
WI ALHN Graphics
Who owns this data?
If you provide it, you own it. If you request it to be
removed, it will be. We hope, however, that you would never feel a need to remove
material. Our only goal here is to provide the information needed to do research from
home.
INTERESTED? Just click on email SC to the left and let us know.
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