Post by cynthiadaigle on Mar 24, 2006 23:41:21 GMT -5
No doubt many of you have heard of and use GenWeb websites which consist of various volunteer submitted records for your use and doesn’t charge you a dime. If you are not using it, you might be missing out on a lot of good information.
Each of Louisiana’s parishes has it’s own GenWeb website. The archives are accessed by clicking on the open book to the far right of the parish name. These sites are dependent on volunteers (yes, I am one) for the data in the site.
Louisiana GenWeb (click on Parish Sites to find your parish)
www.lagenweb.net/lagw/
OR
To find any Louisiana parish GenWeb website
www.lagenweb.org/parish.htm
If your parish GenWeb site has obits, census, birth/marriage/death records, newspaper clippings and so on, it is because some nice folks have been spending a little of their valuable time typing data into files and submitting them to their local GenWeb webmaster to be included in the website. This is the Terrebonne and Lafourche websites linked here so you can see what I mean, if don’t already know.
www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/terrebonne.htm
www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/lafourche.htm
I encourage all of you to dig into that pile of papers on your desk and fish out those pages of obits you printed from microfilm at the library, or that Granny had stashed in a cardboard box in the closet for the past 50 years, and start typing. Maybe you have some SS applications you ordered, Louisiana Death Records, marriage certificates or you might have baptisms of long deceased family members. Start transcribing! How about that nice old article from a long ago newspaper about Great Uncle So-n-So when he first started his business on the bayou side back in 1910.
Maybe you’ve been really industrious and inventoried a cemetery. Chances are you already have it typed up in a Word file.
I hope this note has perhaps enlightened you to the importance of volunteering your time and knowing that through that effort you will be aiding and promoting FREE genealogy. I also hope this has given you some incentive to hit the keyboards.
Please, contact the parish webmaster first to see if there is any special criteria he/she wants you to follow. Some of the GenWeb sites have a section on how to submit data. Keep in mind, they are looking for transcribed data, not our genealogy files.
Each of Louisiana’s parishes has it’s own GenWeb website. The archives are accessed by clicking on the open book to the far right of the parish name. These sites are dependent on volunteers (yes, I am one) for the data in the site.
Louisiana GenWeb (click on Parish Sites to find your parish)
www.lagenweb.net/lagw/
OR
To find any Louisiana parish GenWeb website
www.lagenweb.org/parish.htm
If your parish GenWeb site has obits, census, birth/marriage/death records, newspaper clippings and so on, it is because some nice folks have been spending a little of their valuable time typing data into files and submitting them to their local GenWeb webmaster to be included in the website. This is the Terrebonne and Lafourche websites linked here so you can see what I mean, if don’t already know.
www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/terrebonne.htm
www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/lafourche.htm
I encourage all of you to dig into that pile of papers on your desk and fish out those pages of obits you printed from microfilm at the library, or that Granny had stashed in a cardboard box in the closet for the past 50 years, and start typing. Maybe you have some SS applications you ordered, Louisiana Death Records, marriage certificates or you might have baptisms of long deceased family members. Start transcribing! How about that nice old article from a long ago newspaper about Great Uncle So-n-So when he first started his business on the bayou side back in 1910.
Maybe you’ve been really industrious and inventoried a cemetery. Chances are you already have it typed up in a Word file.
I hope this note has perhaps enlightened you to the importance of volunteering your time and knowing that through that effort you will be aiding and promoting FREE genealogy. I also hope this has given you some incentive to hit the keyboards.
Please, contact the parish webmaster first to see if there is any special criteria he/she wants you to follow. Some of the GenWeb sites have a section on how to submit data. Keep in mind, they are looking for transcribed data, not our genealogy files.