Thank you for checking about how to contribute genealogical materials and data for use in the US GenWeb Project. All contributed materials will remain accessible, without charge.

How to assist the Archivists

• Please copy the USGenWeb Notice to your hard disk and place it at the top of each item you submit. (Just update the type file, contributoršs name, and email address).
• Indicate the county name in the subject of the transmittal email.
• Check with the archivist to assure your files formats and programs are transferable and readable.
• Files should be in text format, preferably saved in a text editor program such as Tex-Edit (MAC) or Notepad+ (PC). If you donšt have these let the archivist know. They are either free or reasonable shareware.
• While we accept some spreadsheet and data base files, they take a great deal of extra effort to prepare for readable viewing. If you can convert them to a text format, prior to submission, that is preferable.
• Keep files to around 100 kb in size. Larger ones really eat up the bandwidth.
• Notify us if you change your email address. If you have a permanent one, please use that.

Wills: John Smith, 1849: Some Town/Twp, Your County, PA 
[This line is used by the USGenWeb search engine]

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Tim Conrad.
 tconrad@lucent.com

USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE:  In keeping with our policy of providing free
		information on the Internet, data may be freely used by
		non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all
		copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any
		format for profit or presentation by other organizations.

Some categories to get us started....


• Federal Census (free, slave, mortality, agriculture, veterans. schedules)
• State Census
• Vital Records
  • 1. birth
  • 2. marriage
  • 3. divorce (or under court?)
  • 4. death
• Court records (county, federal, civil, circuit, probate....)
• Church records (members lists, baptisms...)
• Bible Records
• Newspapers (obits, marriage & birth announcements, local events...)
• Prison Records
• Military Records (rosters, muster rolls, service records, pension applications...)
  • 1. Indian Wars
  • 2. Revolutionary War
  • 3. Civil War
  • 4. Mexican
  • 5. Spanish-American
  • 6. War of 1812
  • 7. WWI
  • 8. WWII
  • 9. Korean
  • 10. Viet Nam
  • 11. Persian Gulf
• Land Records (deeds, land transfers, federal land grants, surveyor's records...)
• Tax Records (land, property, state, federal, local....)
• Area/Local Histories
• Family Histories
• Local Directories (phone books, old county and city directories....)
• Occupational (?) (Mining inspector's reports, Accident reports, railroad reports, company newsletters....)
• Educational (?) (school histories, newsletters, school census, yearbooks?)
• Cemeteries
• Deeds/grants
• Newspapers/obits
• Ship Lists
• Tax Lists
• Wills
• Misc*

Submission Guidlines

1. Only virus-checked files will be accepted.

2. Text is preferred and depending on the size, we may zip it. Non-text may be converted to text before storing. Large files may be split. We may, at our discretion, store the same data in several formats. Scanned documents will be considered, depending on their content.

3. All data is free to the public, and the USGenWeb Archives project will not pay royalties on any submissions.

4. Data is provided for downloading "as is" -- no guarantees of anything.

5. File contributors must use their own discretion regarding the inclusion of data on living people.

6. We will not accept gedcoms due to space considerations.

7. No executable files will be accepted.

8. Do not send copyrighted material, unless it is your own, and you include a statement of permission to use in the document. Note: Public domain records cannot be copyrighted.

9. No anonymous submissions.

10. We cannot guarantee permanency, in the event data is lost.

11. Any obviously false, malicious, libelous, or copyrighted data will be erased. We do not guarantee the validity of any files.

12. These guidelines are subject to change.

13. Once submitted, the data can not be retracted by submitter.

14. We retain the right to refuse any submission.

15. Files in the USGenWeb Archives may not be copied for selling in any format.