HOW THE UNITED STATES GENWEB PROJECT BEGAN
In March and April, 1996, a group of genealogists organized the Kentucky Comprehensive
Genealogy Database Project. The idea was to provide a single entry point for all counties
in Kentucky, where collected databases would be stored. In addition, the databases would
be indexed and cross-linked, so that even if an individual were found in more than one
county, they could be located in the index. This is an outgrowth of that original Kentucky
project.
The USGenWeb Project is a loosely organized group of volunteers working to create a center for
genealogical research for every county in the United States. USGenWeb is not a commercial
enterprise and information found on these pages is freely available to the public. It is
also not a part of the original GenWeb. As you browse the pages, you will find some
consistent elements. All counties will have an area for you to post queries and links to
the state page and USGenWeb Archives. You will also see considerable variation; each page
or database is the creation, property and responsibility of an individual volunteer. We
are very proud of this project and hope that you are too. If you would like to help,
please contact the state or county coordinator for the area that interests you.
Thank you for visiting Minnesota GenWeb. We are proud to be a part of The USGenWeb Project,
which is an effort to organize genealogical materials on the Internet. Our goal is to
provide a Web site specializing in the genealogy in Montana with an emphasis on genealogy
at the county level. We also have created an Archives which will serve as a respository
for transcriptions of public records. Our project's success is only possible through the
support of volunteers. Volunteers are needed in all phases of this project including hosts
to maintain individual county pages, volunteers to submit transcribed public records for
use in the USGenWeb Archives, and people to share their own personal resources by doing
lookups for other researchers. Would you like to help? Please contact me. if you would
like to be a part of this exciting project.
If you have comments or questions about the USGenWeb Project please send them to the Project Coordinator.
Please let us know if you find any problems with the links on the state page or in any of the county pages. For questions or comments about this page or this site, email
Barbara Timm, Mahnomen County, Minnesota GenWeb Coordinator
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