page within Alaska, please contact Alaska GenWeb Coordinator Pat Smith or Fairbanks volunteer Keith Fye. If your genealogical search extends outside the United States you will want to check the resources of the World Genealogy Project.
USGenWeb History:
In March and April, 1996, a group of genealogists organized the Kentucky Comprehensive Genealogy Database Project - The KYGenWeb Project. It began as a discussion on the Internet mailing list, KYROOTS-L. (Hosted at the University of Kentucky, and is coordinated by Roseann Hogan of Frankfort, Ky. the author of "Kentucky Ancestry".)
The idea was to provide a single entry point for all counties in Kentucky, where genealogical data about each county could be easily found. In addition, the data on all county sites would be indexed and cross-linked, so that a single search in the master index could locate all references to a given surname across all pages and databases associated with the project. The discussion quickly turned into a reality, and the project snowballed so quickly that by mid-July all the Kentucky counties had pages.
In June, as the Kentucky Project was coming to completion it was decided to extend the concept to all of the United States and the UsGenWeb Project was established. Volunteers were found who
were willing to host the State Projects and coordinate the County pages. The Alaska GenWeb
Project has evolved from these roots. If you would like to contribute your data or create a borough
page within Alaska, please contact Alaska GenWeb Coordinator Pat Smith or Fairbanks volunteer Keith Fye. If your genealogical search extends outside the United States you will want to check the resources of the World Genealogy Project.
GenWeb Submissions:
Volunteers are recruited to either donate their existing transcribed documents, or to actually commit to transcribing data, such as census records, marriage bonds, wills, etc. This project will also help preserve the information stored in musty old courthouse basements and attics on fading, crumbling paper. NO GEDCOMS, but things like wills, cemetery records, census records, basically anything of interest to general public. Public domain records that are in courthouses or not anywhere sometimes, like the occupants of that old cemetery down the road. Military rolls, you name it. Anything but personal family history.
You can visit the USGenWeb Archives and see whats there, and maybe get a better idea of what is desired.
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