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Subj: [BOARD-L] Guidelines Committee report for the week ending April 27,
2002
Date: 4/29/2002 7:28:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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GUIDELINES COMMITTEE WEEKLY REPORT, for the week ending April 27 2002
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On April 21, the weekly report was submitted to the Project. No comments
were received.
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Local Resources: The Committee continued to discuss this issue and has
approved the wording below for this section:
"Each Local Coordinator is required to provide a page or section listing
contact information for local resources as part of their USGenWeb
site. "Local Resource" is defined as a place located in or near the area
covered by the webpage and contact information should include an address,
telephone number, email address and/or website, if
available. Additionally, you may provide information on the type of
records held by each resource. Examples of local resources that should be
included if available are: county courthouse, public library, genealogical
society, and historical society. You may also provide information on
churches, cemeteries, the local newspaper, museums, funeral homes, regional
archives or historical societies, or any other locally available resource
that may hold material of interest to genealogists."
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Additional State Requirements: The Committee continued to discuss this
item and has approved the following wording for this section:
"In addition to the The USGenWeb Project requirements, some of the states
have additional requirements for their county pages. Please check with
your State Coordinator for additional requirements or a FAQ for your state."
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Recommended Links: The Committee continued to discuss this item. It is
suggested that including links to any outside projects on this page will
constitute an endorsement by USGenWeb and cannot be inclusive of all useful
online genealogy sites. It is also suggested that the Guidelines recommend
only links to USGenWeb-related sites and sister projects, and should not
link to for-profit sites. The current suggested wording for this section is:
"The primary purpose of the USGenWeb Project is to provide information
and assistance to researchers and Local Coordinators should include a page
or section of links to any useful genealogical resources that will assist
researchers in their area. This listing may include, but is not limited to:
the USGenWeb Archives (tm) (ulr); the USGenWeb Census Project (urls), the
Tombstone Project (url), and the WorldGenWeb Project [url]. You are
encouraged to seek out and link to any source of information that includes
information on your local area, or that may be of general use to
researchers in your area, such as message boards, general search engines,
federal and state archives, commercial online genealogy companies, etc."
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The current version of the working document is posted
at:
http://www.radix.net/~merope/lcguide.txt
Please address comments to Teresa Lindquist <merope(a)radix.net>
-Teresa Lindquist
Chair, Guidelines Committee
Representative At Large, USGenWeb Project
merope(a)radix.net