 Providing
free online genealogical & historical information
The
COGenWeb is a loosely organized group of dedicated
volunteers whose goal is to provide online genealogical
and historical information at no cost to the visitor. 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.
What
resources are you likely to find at COGenWeb sites?
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Transcribed census records, tombstones, deed records,
etc.
• Local courthouse and government offices information
• Surnames of others researching similar family names
• Possible ancestor photos, and or historical landscape
photos
• Newspaper articles of decades gone by
• Transcriptions or abstracts of journals and diaries
• Historical maps of the local area
Not all
websites are built the same. Therefore, one site may
have much more data than another. Each site owner
depends on visitors to donate information. Keep in mind
that the sites are only as good as the people who help
support them. Please see 'Join Us' in the section
below.
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Join Us!
We are totally non-commercial and all information you
will find in the county sites is free. Unlike other
non-commercial concerns, we never solicit funds to
continue operating. However, we continually solicit
donations of information, photos, documents, pre-1940
news articles, and time. 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 COGenWeb Archives, and people to share their own
personal resources by doing lookups for other
researchers. Would you like to help? To provide
information regarding a specific county, contact that
county's coordinator.
To volunteer to adopt a county,
contact the State Coordinator.
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The Fine Print
Some information on our
pages bear the personal copyright of individuals. Please
respect their copyright. No copyrighted information
found on any page within this website may be used for
commercial purposes without the express permission of
the copyright owner. This website also contains some
public domain data and data that is common property and
containing no original authorship (i.e. old time lists
and tombstone information, etc) and is not copyrighted.
Links to external
web sites are being provided as a convenience and for
informational purposes only; they do not constitute an
endorsement or approval of any of the products, services
or opinions contained in any external web site.
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Last updated:
28 Jan
2009 |
COGenWeb Leadership Team
Gail Meyer-Kilgore,
State Coordinator
Colleen Pustola,
Assistant State Coordinator
Sundee Anderson, Assistant State Coordinator
Colleen Pustola,
Site Webmistress
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