Guidelines relating to the data and
submissions
used on the Fayette PAGenWeb site
There are different areas on the web site, and they
require different levels of
adherence as to the what is acceptable.
Data transcriptions such as old books and articles
These will be transcribed as they originally appeared.
Including typos. When surnames are so badly mangled as they can be in very
old documents, a likely modern name can be put in parenthesis with a
question mark. This is to aid researchers using a search engine and will
not often be used. We don't want ancestors to be lost because of very odd
spellings.
Obituaries
These will be transcribed as they originally appeared. If
a submitter providing the transcription includes a note - this may be
included underneath the obit in parenthesis and the phrase "submitters
note" or "note" will be used. Notes are not
encouraged and will be accepted only at the webmaster's discretion.
Headstones
Headstones will only include text taken from the actual
stones. There will be no maiden names or relationships that are not on the
stone. If a submitter says the dates are wrong (as often happened) this
can be added in parenthesis with the statement that the correct date of
birth or death is ____. There is a place for the submitter’s name that
designates where this information came from. We prefer that the
inscription on the stone be legible and the name of the cemetery be
included in the submission.
Ancestor Photo Gallery
These are provided by the submitters. We will include the
submitter’s own description as to who is in the photo and who the person
or persons are. We may abbreviate the description
Cemetery Transcriptions
Although we encourage cemetery submissions and will accept them in any
format, using Excel or some other spreadsheet format expedites the
information being uploaded to the site.
Correcting or changing submissions
Information submitted to the web site is considered to
have the copyright of the submitter. We are not going to edit genealogical
information based on the request of another researcher. The exception
would be when there is an error in our transcription of the original
submission. That error will be corrected at the request of the original
submitter.
Group Sheets, Pedigree charts etc.
Rootsweb does not allow these items on their county
websites. The place to add your own genealogy data is
World Connect. There is
also a Group Sheet
Project.
Copyright
No transcription from a publication currently under
copyright can be accepted. An easy rule of thumb is: Works published
before 1923 are in the Public Domain, and are therefore acceptable.
Contributions
Contributions to the PAGenWeb Fayette website may not to
be removed by the original contributor or the webmaster. Much
work goes into preparing contributions to go online, and they therefore
will remain with the Fayette PAGenWeb site. Contributions to the site do
NOT belong to the webmaster and the webmaster may not remove them to a
site outside of PAGenWeb.