We started out way back in March 2000
by providing data for the state of Illinois and
expanded to cover the other states in March of 2006. Since then, we've been very pleased
to welcome the many new hosts who have joined our original Illinois volunteers, and to
continue to bring free transcribed data to our websites.
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About
Us
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~ We're all Volunteers ~
~ We provide server space to our volunteers to display their county websites under our domain name.
~ The volunteer chooses what data to display
on their sites. ~
~ We're completely independent - no big corporation tells us what to do ~
~ We do not accept advertising. NO BANNERS or POP-UPs ALLOWED! ~
~ We're pretty much insane about transcribing data (we don't want to just post scanned
images)
~ We do NOT write the history, we just transcribe it~
Our hosts are required to add data to their sites, so you won't see hosted sites
that sit for years and years with no changes. As for our unhosted sites, our group works
as a team to add data to them on a rotating schedule. So even though a site doesn't have
its own host, it will still get data added to it ... just not on as regular a schedule as
our hosted sites.
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We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online
and are interested in helping to keep Genealogy Free.
If you are interested in
hosting a county website with us,
view our G.T.-Volunteer Page for
further information.
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And now for the sad part:
We regret that we have no time to
perform personal research for anyone.
We're too busy transcribing data to stop and do research for folks!
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