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Guidelines:
1) Be very clear as to what you are
willing to do. You make your own volunteer rules,
and you can always choose to stray outside your
boundaries as you work with requesters. Do as little or
as much as you choose.
2) If there is a charge for your
service, you must state that for the requester. Requesters should not have
"surprises" in this area. Parking fees, public transportation, copying
costs, or the price of admission or donation to a Historical Society, etc. are reasonable
charges, but you can also waive those if you wish. Also, some volunteers charge for gas if
they are obtaining resources far from their home or outside of the stated area. Items that
are not acceptable on this volunteer site are charges for your time, "per hour" fees or using
Gen Gathering to sell your products.
3) You must also inform the requester as to the
approximate wait time for their request.
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Regional Resources
Examples of what fits into the "Regional Resources" category:
(Note that a regional resource such as "New England Churches"
should be added to each of the states it addresses.)
Birth, death, marriage, cemetery indexes, websites,
city directories, yearbooks, school photos, funeral home records,
courthouse, church, Historical/Genealogical Society lookups -
(land, marriage, christening, probate, wills, etc.).
Library lookups (obituaries, biographies, historical books, maps, etc.),
digital photos or videos of any historical or family locale -
(cemetery, church, war memorial, land, etc.).
Military resources (state and county books, biographies, etc.).
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Family History Resources
Examples of what fits into the "Family History Resources" category:
(These will generally not fit well into a regional area.)
Published family history/biography books such as
"The Duncan Family History", diaries, journals,
scrapbooks, written family histories, photographs, websites.
Military resources (personal diaries, journals, scrapbooks, photographs, etc.).
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