WorldGenWeb Review - Current Issue

WorldGenWeb Review
Current Issue

WorldGenWeb Review e-zine
Vol 1, No 1, 3 September 2001, (c) 2001 WorldGenWeb Project
Inaugural Issue, Circulation 1,827

Copyright 2001 WorldGenWeb Project

Editor(s): Nathan Zipfel

Special thanks to Marie Dallas and the Advisory Board Members.

Contents
· Welcome from the WorldGenWeb Project Advisory Board
· About the WorldGenWeb Review e-zine
· Latest News from the WorldGenWeb Project
· Federal of Genealogical Societies
· Researching your Polish Ancestors at the PolandGenWeb Project
· Query and Surname Listings
· WorldGenWeb Archives
· Research tools
· Letters to the editor
· Reprint Policy
· Subscription Information

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Welcome from the WorldGenWeb Project Advisory Board

Nathan Zipfel, Chairperson WorldGenWeb Project Advisory Board

On behalf of the WorldGenWeb Project Advisory Board I welcome you to the
inaugural issue of the WorldGenWeb Review, a monthly e-zine published on
behalf of the WorldGenWeb Project.

The WorldGenWeb is a non-profit volunteer organization that is dedicated to
the free use and access of public domain genealogical information. To
further this goal, the WorldGenWeb uses internet websites to create “local
repositories” of information that researchers worldwide can access. Each
project website (generally) will contain local resource addresses of
county/country public records offices, cemetery locations, maps, library
addresses, archive addresses, and association addresses including Family
History Centers or other genealogical or historical societies, and some
history and culture of the region. Other resources include query pages or
message boards, mail lists, historical data including census records,
cemetery records, biographies, bibliographies, and family/surname
registration websites.

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About the WorldGenWeb Review e-zine

The WorldGenWeb Review e-zine was created to keep the visitors and friends
of the WorldGenWeb Project informed about what is happening in the
WorldGenWeb Project. We will be providing helpful information on how to
utilize the WorldGenWeb Project as well as resources to assist you in your
research.

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Latest News from the WorldGenWeb Project

South AmericanGenWeb Project – the South AmericanGenWeb Project
<http://www.rootsweb.com/~sthamgw/> has a new Regional Coordinator
(Charlotte Meyer). The website has been completely revised and now includes
resources to assist you in your research of your South American Ancestors.
We have also established websites for each of the countries in the South
American Region. We are currently looking for hosts for many of the
countries, so if you’d be interested, please contact Charlotte at
cmmeyer@caves.net.

AfricaGenWeb Project – the AfricaGenWeb Project
<http://www.rootsweb.com/~africagw/> is currently undergoing a complete
revision. The website has been updated and now contains links to available
mailing lists and message boards to assist researchers. We are currently
looking for hosts for most of the countries in Africa. If you’d be
interested in joining the WorldGenWeb Project and adopting one of the
un-hosted countries, please contact Nate at nate@gte.net.

MiddleEastGenWeb Project - The MiddleEastGenWeb Project
<http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdeastgw/> is pleased to have Darren McCathern
as the new Regional Coordinator. He is the host for the IsraelGenWeb and
was recently featured in an article in Everton's Family History Newsletter.
If you have a genealogical interest in any of the Middle Eastern countries
you'll want to stop by the website and check out the resources that Darren
has available. Darren is looking for coordinators for a the unhosted
countries.

CaribbeanGenWeb Project - The CaribbeanGenWeb Project
<http://www.rootsweb.com/~caribgw/> is pleased to have Dean de Freitas as
the new Regional Coordinator. Dean has been the host of the Trinidad
and TobagoGenWeb Project since 1999. If your ancestors were from Trinidad
or Tobago you'll want to stop by Dean's page as there is a wealth of
information to assist you in your research. Dean is currently looking for
coordinators for a couple of the unhosted Islands.

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Federal of Genealogical Societies (FGS)

The WorldGenWeb will be an exhibitor at the 2001 FGS Conference
12-15 September in Davenport, Iowa. To learn more about the FGS,
visit their website at http://www.fgs.org Charlotte Meyer,
our AsiaGenWeb and South AmericanGenWeb Regional Coordinator
will be representing the WorldGenWeb Project Advisory Board. If
you will be attending the conference, please stop by our booth
and tell Charlotte hi!

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Researching your Polish Ancestors at the PolandGenWeb Project
By Marie Dallas

PolandGenWeb <http://www.rootsweb.com/~polwgw/polandgen.html> offers
everything you need to find your ancestors in Poland. Part of the
WorldGenWeb Project, the website provides visitors with research assistance,
maps (historic and present day), town locators and town lists, translation
aids, archives addresses, and much more. The highlight of PolandGenWeb is
the Transcription Project. Currently, volunteers are transcribing records
and donating them to the project to be displayed online. These records
include birth, marriage, and death records filmed by the LDS as well as
tombstone inscriptions from Polish cemeteries located in Poland and
elsewhere. Transcribed passenger manifest pages containing Polish
immigrants are also available to view on the site.

There are 160 pages designed to assist you in uprooting your family tree. In
addition, each Polish province has its own website devoted to researching
your ancestors specifically within those boundaries and can be accessed from
the PolandGenWeb home page. There is no fee to view the online records and
resources, and you will never have to register to use this website, as some
other genealogy website require. Whether you're new to researching your
Polish roots or have years of experience, PolandGenWeb is a resource you
will use over and over again.

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Query and Surname Listings

The WorldGenWeb Project does not host a centralized tool for the submission
of Queries and Surnames. Our Country and sub-country Project Hosts maintain
methods and links to various message board systems for you to post your
queries and surnames. Please visit the country websites to locate the query
resource<s> that are in use.

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WorldGenWeb Project Archives

Are you aware the WorldGenWeb Project has an on-line digital archives
of research data? The Archives was started in 1998 to be a repository
of transcriptions of public domain records. Please stop by and browse
through
the files we have on-line <http://www.worldgenweb.org/archives/>. We are
currently re-organizing them to make the files easier to access.
Additionally
we are linking to the archives housed at many of our regional sites.

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Research Tools

Geneanet <http://geneanet.org/> Geneanet is a world-wide index of on-line
and off-line genealogy resources. It is a free service that the WorldGenWeb
Project endorses.

e-transcriptum <http://www.e-transcriptum.net/> - Are you in need of
translation service for your genealogy research? If so, you'll want
to visit e-transcriptum, they offer free translation services currently
for 54 languages. Their service is one that the WorldGenWeb Project
endorses.

Genforum <http://www.genforum.com/regional/countries/> Genforum is a
bulletin board system for submitting queries and surnames for most world
countries.

Rootsweb Message Boards <http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=main&r=rw>
Rootsweb, Inc maintains a message board system for posting queries and
surnames for most world countries.

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Letters to the Editor

We’d love to hear from you. Please send your comments to nate@gte.net

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Reprint Policy

Permission to reprint articles from the WorldGenWeb Review is granted unless
otherwise indicated for an individual article. Reprints may only be used
for non-commercial, educational purposes. The following must be included
with any reprints:
“Published by the WorldGenWeb Project in the WorldGenWeb Review, Vol 1, No
1, 3 September 2001. WorldGenWeb Project http://www.worldgenweb.org"

Back Issues of the WorldGenWeb Review are available from the archive located
at http://www.worldgenweb.org/wgwreview.

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