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Projects to improve the Web

 

This page contains links to web sites and pages promoting projects on the WorldWideWeb. The information is divided into the following categories:

GenWeb

GenWeb is a concept originally proposed by Gary Hoffman of San Diego. The concept is that people all over the world put their own genealogy on the web, then link to others to whom they are related. That way everyone maintains their own portion of the world genealogy database, which slowly grows until everyone is on it.

USGenWeb

This project brings together genealogists to accomplish two things.
  1. To create a web site for each state and each county within each state and assign a coordinator to maintain the site and make sure everything available electronically for his/her county and/or state is listed.
  2. To promote the creation of indexes, abstracts, and transcipts of records and to make databases available electronically on the Web for anyone to search.
The format for any state is   http://www.usgenweb.org/XX
where XX is the two letter abbreviation for the state (e.g., IA for Iowa)
There is also an attempt to do the same thing for the whole world--click here to see WorldGenWeb.
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Lineagesnet

This is an effort by Lineages, Inc. to create a useful web site. They have listed every state and are in the process of listing every county. Their intent is to give general information (along the line of a state research outline) about each record type in the state, what it is, how to use it, where it's located, etc. They then hope to do the same for each county within each state. It is very sketchy so far as Gareth Mark is doing it on his own, but they have great hopes. I only show Delaware here as an example.
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Alan E. Mann
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