HOW TO ADOPT A COUNTY WEBSITE

GENERAL:

These are the guidelines for volunteers who wish to join our team and adopt an IGP county website, be a look-up volunteer, or become an archives manager.

IGP has high standards in page creation, site management, and quality presentation, yet we encourage personal creativity in the design of county web pages.

To join IGP as a County Coordinator:

1. Select the county you want that are labeled adoptable or Webmaster. Not all webmaster sites are adoptable, but if you want one, please contact the webmaster. 

2. First read sections V, VI and VII of the Project Bylaws.

3. Contact a member of the management team, or the welcome hostess.

How To Volunteer For other IGP Projects.

We are looking for interested genealogy volunteers to manage  special projects; do cemetery, church transcriptions, or be look up volunteers.

You may directly contact the County Coordinator of the county you want to work with. Some CCs need the help of a CO-CC, and all counties need volunteer transcribers..

Look-up resources, books or documents, must be free of copyright restrictions; and look-up volunteers respond to requests by email from researchers who need help. 

Guidelines For Web pages.

Please read sections V, VI and VII of the Project Guidelines. Find logos at Logos.

Four elements are required on all county project index (front) pages:

1. Prominently display the name of the county, i.e.. (Leitrim) and an intro (part of the Ireland Genealogy Projects). County Titles can be a County name (Leitrim), or follow the USGW naming pattern, (LeitrimGenWeb), (Ireland Genealogy Projects, IGP TM.), etc.

2. Prominently display one of the project logos right or left near the Title of the project. Display a second project logo (your choice) near the bottom of the page close to your copyright statement. A disclosure/disclaimer statement is also recommended. CCs are expected to update their web sites with new information several times a year and keep broken links fixed. Good looking and good working websites are a sign of professional attention to detail.......and put a great project face forward to the public.

3. Five elements of data are required for all county web pages, but not all have to display on the index page. See the five elements in blue text under section VII of the Project Guidelines. Please also consider the suggested additional elements.

4. IGP Coordinators will maintain a link to the appropriate CC of GENUKI by using the official Genuki Link-Logo. Coordinators are expected to cooperate with their Genuki counterpart to develop a broad range of onsite records, not just duplications of effort.

5. Keep a copyright statement at the bottom of the main index page. The statement should include language that submitters or transcribers own their own copyrights and every CC will protect those rights by keeping up the copyright statement every year.

6. It is also legally necessary to keep up the copyrights and trademarks for names IrelandGenWeb, IRGenWeb, Ireland Genealogy Projects, IGW and IGP TM. These copyrights are held by this project by preemptive copyright based on first use and first protection.

Business and Legal Status

Non-Commercial Status:

The Ireland Genealogy Projects are non-commercial. We display no banners for profit, nor earn income from any sources. This project is dedicated to free exchange of public-domain records.

Commercial sponsorships or banners promoting non-genealogical items are prohibited. A small logo for genealogy or history books, Amazon, etc., or link to a professional genealogical site is OK.

No direct solicitation of funds are permitted on any IGP website. 

MORE ON GENUKI:

Ireland Genealogy Project feels that GENUKI has a lot of good material online to assist researchers in Ireland. IGP does work collaboratively with Genuki to provide additional services to researchers that are not currently available through Genuki.

We suggest that resources offered by Genuki and other Ireland projects not be replicated. Link to those resources and develop new resources to transcribe.

Use this Genuki logo:     right click to copy

Resources other projects may not provide include:

• Query Pages
• Mailing Lists
• Lookup Resources
• Family Association Website Links
• Cemeteries, by county
• More maps. maps are always needed
• Census, by county and by country
• BMD by country AND by county
• Ireland History and or Geography

Privacy of Individuals

The Ireland Genealogy Project encourages submission of genealogical data to all project websites. 

We endeavor to guarantee that all materials collected through associated project websites will not be distributed commercially. Country coordinators and project volunteers work on the honor system and we "assume" that materials placed online are free from copyright infringement and that they will not be sold or published.

Copyrighted materials provided to a county website by a volunteer cannot be moved to another project webpage or server or another project without permission of the submitter and the National Coordinator. Such material shall be labeled as copyrighted material by (contributors name and contact information)

ANCILLARY GUIDELINES: (meaning good afterthoughts)

Under normal circumstances a CC will host no more than two (2) counties at one time. That rule is to insure the continued success of the project should a CC step down from the project.   This does not impact county coordinators who host more than two counties when this rule was put into effect August 31, 1998, OR CCs who temporarily host a webpage that is adoptable. 

These guidelines are patterned after The WorldGenWeb Project and the USGenWeb projects. 

We have no formal process for county review, so each coordinator is responsible to keep their web sites in compliance with the IGP policies and guidelines.

Disclaimers:

Ireland Genealogy Project does not guarantee the authenticity or source of any collected material place online at project websites and is to be held free from any and all liabilities based on such materials. The IGP webmaster will remove  materials if deemed in violation of U.S. or international Copyright Laws.

Copyright law observed by Ireland Genealogy Projects is governed by the International Berne Treaty of 1978.

Names IrelandGenWeb and IRGenWeb and their derivative acronym IGW TM are copy write protected by:  DAI Systems Co.,  Anchorage, Alaska, and may not be used by projects other than IGP without written permission of copyright and trademark owner.