VAGenWeb CC Duties

          • The duties of a County Coordinator are fairly simple
            1. Keep the webpages up to date.
              • Content and format of the webpages, once the minimum requirements are satisfied, are completely flexible, and entirely up to the judgement of the CC (within the bounds of good taste and copyright laws)
              • Many, if not most, CCs satisfy the requirement for having a county querypage by pointing to the rootsweb.com / ancestry.com message board for their county. An unfortunate tendancy in my opinion, but completely understandable.
              • Posting research material to the County Website, is desireable, but not required. The Archives Project was established to serve as a place for materials to be accessed.
            2. Always respond to researcher's questions.
              • An acceptable answer is "I don't know", but try to point the researcher to another person or website, if possible.
              • Avoid argumentative situations. If the person gets abusive, stop replying and ignore further messages.
            3. Keep the State Coordinator apprised of the CC's email address.
                4. The CC must be subscribed to the mailing list for administrative VAGenWeb traffic.
          • Qualifications of a County Coordinator
            1. A desire to help researchers.
              • A personal interest in the county, with some knowledge of its history and/or families is helpful.
            2. The ability to create and modify webpages. This includes
              • Some knowledge of the HTML coding, or use of a software program that does the coding for you. For example, I use a text editor and add the encoding myself, but then I'm something of a control freak. <grin>
              • Access to facilities to upload/download files from their webspace. I use a program called "WS_FTP Home", that I downloaded from a site on the internet.
              • If taking over a county, previously hosted in someone's personal webspace, the new host will need to find webspace in which to place the pages. Most, but not all, VAGenWeb county webpages have found homes in free space provided by rootsweb.com, and this option is still available.