The National Manager of the Family Group Sheet Project is Bettie Wood
The Assistant Manage ris Gina Heffernan
If you have any questions or problems please contact one or more of the above personnel.
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What is entailed in working in this project?
In order to "work" in our project, one should have some basic web building skills, have uploading experience,
know how to copy & paste, etc.
From there what you would do is take any fgs that come in, make a new file, name it, link it, & upload it.

The time it takes is mostly up to each state manager.   It usually takes more time to get started than for maintaining the site.
Some folks spend hours,  upon hours getting their web sites to suit their own personal style, some take a few minutes a day.
It's just your personal preference.  We do however, ask that you update once a month.

If you are interested in a state, let us know.  Sometimes there is only a "baby-sitter" maintaining the state
until a permanent manager is found.  It could be that it is not yet marked up for adoption

If you are interested in becoming a state manager, show us web pages you have built.
Then, read over & agree to the set of guidelines listed below

Just contact Gina, & myself  & let's get started!

Policies/Procedures/Requirements
For our project at http://www.fgs-project.com/
These are subject to change
It is the responsibility of each manager to maintain awareness of these guidelines &
any additions thereto or amendments thereof:

1. A link is required from your State Family Group Sheet Project to the National Project page.
    http://www.fgs-project.com/

2. A link is required to your states XXGenWeb, USGenWeb, USGenWeb Archives &/or USGenWeb State
    Archives.  A USGenWeb logo must also be displayed on at least the home page:

3. It is a must to keep a working email address and to notify the National Manager of any
    email changes that pertain to the state sites.

4. Have Fun

5. No State Manager can relinquish their state to another person without first notifying the National Manager & Assistant Manager.
    The National Manager (& Assistant) must approve all of new coordinators.

6. There will be no living person's information listed on your State Family Group Sheet Pages.
    A reference to "living" with no further info is permissible

7. All state sites should be updated monthly, IF you have the information to update with.  This lets the visitor know that the site is
    being maintained, is not abandoned, and is in good working order.

8. Provide a search engine.  These are probably already on the site, but just in case
    Free Find (http://www.freefind.com/ or Pico (http://www.picosearch.com/) are some good ones.

9. All information added to the state site will remain with the site if it is passed to another State Manager.
     However, this information is owned by the person who submitted the data and does not belong to the State Manager.

10. Managers must be subscribed to the FGS-PROJECT mail list.

11.  It is mandatory that state managers answer roll call.  These will be about every 4 months.  If you don't reply to roll call, or answer emails,
       it will be assumed  that you are no longer available.  All managers are responsible to let the National Manager know about being away
       from their computer for any length of time 7 days or longer.

12.  Please keep track of the number of fgs.  Preferably this can be done by noting the total number on your home page, then noting the
       amount in numbers under each letter.

13.  Items can not be offered for sale by any manager for any reason

14.  It is suggested that each state manager have a copyright notice such as:
       Copyright © 2006--2008
       All rights reserved. This site may be freely linked to but not duplicated in any manner without written consent.

57.  Mostly have fun <g>
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Although we intend to have fun with this project, & do not anticipate this:
A manager may be dismissed for abandoning their site, being unresponsive to emails, and/or violation of these guidelines.
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Volunteer Help Pages
http://www.fgs-project.com/louisiana/Help.html