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About the USGenWeb Project

• You can help further Indiana Genealogy by offering your census information, wills and other public domain documents to the INGenWeb Archives!

  Nothing copyrighted, unless you have written permission from the author. Please contact me, Katy Hestand, Be sure to read "More Information About Sending Files".

  Be sure to check The USGenWeb Time-To-Do  page for file submission guidelines.
    The Archives provides you with free access to these files. The files have been donated by other researchers, such as yourself. Please do not send queries here, this is not the Indiana State Archives in Indianapolis, IN and we do not do private research, look-ups, answer family or county queries here at the archives. If you have a query, please....contact the INGenWeb county host. There you can find a list of all the county coordinators and links to the individual county pages. Check these pages out they all have wonderful information to help you in your research!

USGenWeb Archives File Submissions

• It is the USGenWeb policy to provide this FREE information to help everyone with their research. You may rest assured that anything you donate to these archives will remain FREE to the general public. To insure that folks viewing your donations can contact you, please let us know if your email address changes or feel free to include your snail mail address in the files you donate.

• If you have public-domain documents that would help other researchers, please submit them. These archives depend fully on donations of files and volunteers to transcribe items for us. Contributions by folks like you, are what makes this project grow.

• NOTE: Due to storage space restriction we can not accept family gedcom's at this time.
  Some types of records we can accept:

  Anything in the public domain

  Anything published before 1929

  Items published after 1929 with authors written permission.

• Examples of Public Domain Information would be:

• Federal Census (free, slave, mortality, agriculture, veterans... schedules)

  State Census Vital Records

  1.marriage

  2.birth

  3.death

  4.divorce (or under court?)

• Court records (county, federal, civil, circuit, probate....) Church records (members lists, baptisms...) Bible Records Diary/Journal Transcripts Newspapers (obits, marriage & birth announcements, local events...) Prison Records

  Military Records (rosters, muster rolls, service records, pension applications...)

  1.Revolutionary

  2.Civil War

  3.Indian Wars

  4.Mexican

  5.Spanish-American

  6.War of 1812

  7.WWI

  8.WWII

  9.Korean

  10.Viet Nam

  11.Persian Gulf

• Land Records (deeds, land transfers, federal land grants, surveyor's records...) Tax Records (land, property, state, federal, local....) Local Histories Local Directories (phone books, old county and city directories....) Occupational (?) (Mining inspector's reports, Accident reports, railroad reports, company newsletters....) Educational (?) (school histories, newsletters, school census', yearbooks?) Cemeteries - (Headstone transcriptions, caretakers records, burial records) Deeds/grants Misc* Newspapers/obits Ship Lists Tax lists Wills

       INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING FILES

• 1. Only virus-checked files will be accepted.

• 2. Text is preferred and depending on the size, we may zip it. Also, no tables. Please use spaces and not tabs in the text. Tabs cause everything to go loopy when I post it. Non-text may be converted to text before storing. Large files may be split. We may, at our discretion, store the same data in several formats. Scanned documents will be considered, depending on their content. For some other tips on the text files check out The USGenWeb Time-To-Do

• 3. All data is free to the public, the USGenWeb Archives project will not pay royalties on any submissions.

• 4. Data is provided for downloading "as is" -- no guarantees of anything

• 5. File contributors must use their own discretion regarding the inclusion of data on living people.

• 6. We will "not accept gedcoms" due to space considerations.

• 7. No executable files will be accepted.

• 8. Do not send copyrighted material, unless it is your own, and you include a statement of permission to use in the document.

• Note: Public domain records cannot be copyrighted.

• 9. No anonymous submissions.

• 10. We cannot guarantee permanency, in the event data is lost.

• 11. Any obviously false, malicious, libelous, or copyrighted data will be erased. We do not guarantee the validity of any files.

• 12. These guidelines are subject to change.

• 13. Once submitted, the data can't be retracted by submitter.

• 14. We retain the right to refuse any submission.

• 15. State archive coordinators must follow the rules established for the archives. The archive committee will have "owner" access to all state directories.

  16. Files in the USGenWeb Archives may not be copied for selling in any format.

AOL Members Please Read:

There is no password required to read USGenWeb Archives files online or to download them. If you use AOL's built-in web browser, it might ask you for a user name and password. To work around this, do the following:

1. Enter keyword FTP
2. Click on "Go to FTP"
3. Click on "Other site"
4. Enter the address of the archives and Do NOT check the box "Ask for login and password."
5. Click on "Connect"

The above will put you in the main directory of the USGenWeb Archives. From here you can click on any state directory, which will take you to a directory listing the counties. You can choose the county of your choice, then go to other sub-directories which will be identifiable by subject, such as "census", "vitals", "cemeteries", etc.