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Free server space was rare and many people who wanted to adopt sites couldn't afford to pay for server space. Although Dale Schneider was willing to host the new sites on his personal server he couldn't afford to do it for free. Fund raising suggestions were made, but for most people on the list freely sharing genealogy information was a way of life. Another way needed to be found and that "way" turned out to be RootsWeb. | Free server space was rare and many people who wanted to adopt sites couldn't afford to pay for server space. Although Dale Schneider was willing to host the new sites on his personal server he couldn't afford to do it for free. Fund raising suggestions were made, but for most people on the list freely sharing genealogy information was a way of life. Another way needed to be found and that "way" turned out to be RootsWeb. | ||
When first approached by Jeff, some misunderstanding or miscommunication occurred, and RootsWeb wasn't willing to host the | When first approached by Jeff, some misunderstanding or miscommunication occurred, and RootsWeb wasn't willing to host the USGenWebsites, but that was quickly cleared up. RootsWeb offered to host the USGenWebsites on its servers for free with no limit on the amount of space for a site. With RootsWeb making server space available for free, volunteers could afford to take on a Project site and by the end of June or very early July 1996 there was a website for every state and county on-line - ready to welcome visitors. The state coordinators were responsible for finding volunteers to man the county sites and by the end of 1996 70% of the county sites were adopted by volunteers. | ||
During June while all of this was going on, one of the people on the list was Linda Lewis and she was interested in a place to put all the bits and pieces and scraps of information the average family historian squirrels away "just in case." Joy Fisher, also on the list, was concerned about the future changes of html and web browsers since both things had changed so rapidly in such a short period of time. Joy already had on-line some books she had transcribed and they were in .txt format, both to conserve on precious server space but also so she wouldn't have to reformat them each time html and/or browsers were updated. By the end of June 1996 not only were state and county sites being uploaded, but the USGenWeb's first special project - The Digital Archives (a place to put all those bits & pieces, all in .txt format) was on-line. | During June while all of this was going on, one of the people on the list was Linda Lewis and she was interested in a place to put all the bits and pieces and scraps of information the average family historian squirrels away "just in case." Joy Fisher, also on the list, was concerned about the future changes of html and web browsers since both things had changed so rapidly in such a short period of time. Joy already had on-line some books she had transcribed and they were in .txt format, both to conserve on precious server space but also so she wouldn't have to reformat them each time html and/or browsers were updated. By the end of June 1996 not only were state and county sites being uploaded, but the USGenWeb's first special project - The Digital Archives (a place to put all those bits & pieces, all in .txt format) was on-line. | ||
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*[http://www.usgwarchives.net/ The USGenWeb Archives Project] | *[http://www.usgwarchives.net/ The USGenWeb Archives Project] | ||
*[http:// | *[http://sites.rootsweb.com/~aagriots/ The USGenWeb African American Griots Project] | ||
*[http://genevents.genwebsite.org/ The USGenWeb Genealogical Events Project] | *[http://genevents.genwebsite.org/ The USGenWeb Genealogical Events Project] | ||
*[http:// | *[http://sites.rootsweb.com/~usgwkidz/ The USGenWeb Kidz Project] | ||
*[http:// | *[http://sites.rootsweb.com/~lineage/ The USGenWeb Lineage Project] | ||
*[http://www.usgwtombstones.org/ The USGenWeb Tombstone Project] | *[http://www.usgwtombstones.org/ The USGenWeb Tombstone Project] | ||
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*[http://www.usgwarchives.net/pensions/ The Pension Project] | *[http://www.usgwarchives.net/pensions/ The Pension Project] | ||
*[http://www.usgwarchives.net/census/ The Online Census Images Project] | *[http://www.usgwarchives.net/census/ The Online Census Images Project] | ||
*[ | *[https://sites.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/churches/ The Church Records Project] | ||
*[http://www.usgwarchives.net/immigrations/ The Immigrations Project] | *[http://www.usgwarchives.net/immigrations/ The Immigrations Project] | ||
*[http://www.usgwarchives.net/marriages/ The Marriage Records Project] | *[http://www.usgwarchives.net/marriages/ The Marriage Records Project] | ||
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*[http://www.usgwcensus.org/ http://www.usgwcensus.org] | *[http://www.usgwcensus.org/ http://www.usgwcensus.org] | ||
[[Category:United States Online Research Sites]] [[Category:USGenWeb]] [[Category:Major | [[Category:United States Online Research Sites]] [[Category:USGenWeb]] [[Category:Major Genealogy Websites]] | ||