Please note: Volunteer means that you would not be paid or expect payment for what you do. All information that has been put onto the HIGenWeb pages has been done by volunteers. They are in no way compensated for the work they do, other than the "Thank you's" they receive from people they have been able to help.

1. Adopt a county
2. Co-Host a county

Co-hosting a county with someone else is the best way to learn to adopt a county. While co-hosting, you would receive the email queries and surnames, etc., that people want posted to the county pages. You would need to make sure all the pertinent information was included with the request: email address, contact person, and that the query was written in good format. If it needs to be reworded, you could do that. Also, you would acknowledge the receipt of the query to the county, etc., then forward the query to the coordinator of that county for posting.
While co-hosting, the host, or another host, can work with you on learning html and ftp coding and instructions.
Some counties are using an automatic system to receive their queries and surnames, so they would not need someone to help with the county.

3. Information Gathering

   You can volunteer to gather information from your county, or counties close to you. If you do not have internet access, you can get copies and mail them to the county coordinator via snail mail. Just contact the county coordinator for that particular county.

4. Do lookups from local sources or from written material

   Volunteer to do research in public records that are available in the area where you live, or from books, etc, that you have available.

   Special Projects

   We have several Special Projects in the works that can use some help.

5. We have need of volunteers to obtain census records from different areas, old photographs of places and/or people of Hawaii. And we have the need for people that can do translations, regardless of the languages they are able to work in.

   There are other projects as well.

6. Transcribers

   The Census Project, Tombstone Project, and the Digital Archives Project can always use transcribers.

7. Typing

   County Coordinators are constantly finding new material to post to their county pages, but find they could use some help in getting the material typed up and onto the computer for coding and posting to their pages. You could volunteer to type the material into the computer (at your home, and email the file to the coordinator, that way it is already on the computer, then the coordinator can code it and upload it to the web).

8. Walk a cemetery

   County Coordinators are always interested in receiving information for their county. You could walk your local cemetery(ies) obtaining the names and dates from the headstones, recording the location of the headstone (plot/gravesite) and submit them to the coordinator for posting.
   These can also be used in the Tombstone Project.

   A suggestion: Some people use their local Girl Scout or Boy Scout troops to do this.

The word Volunteer means many thing to many people, and is used in many different cases to mean something other than the standard definition found in the dictionary. In this case, within the USGenWeb and HIGenWeb Projects, it means we "agree" to coordinate information for the County we have opted to host, with the only gratuity being the satisfaction of helping others.

Many of us are coordinating Counties we have connections to with our own family searches. Which is fine! I started out that way, and I'm sure many others have too, and many more to come will also.

When you Volunteer to coordinate a County for any of the State Projects within the USGenWeb, you do so knowing it is for the USGenWeb Projects, and the many visitors to that County. The USGenWeb does have certain requirements that have to be on your County Pages. States can, and do, impose additional requirements and guidelines. To Volunteer to coordinate a County in the HIGenWeb, it must be with the understanding that you adhere to these Requirements and guidelines.

USGenWeb Requirements http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/

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HIGenWeb basic requirements
for County Pages

Graphics will have to be in the standard formats, .gif, .jpg (.jpeg), that all browsers can view them.

County Site Content

Many of us came to these pages, this State, or the USGenWeb, looking for our ancestors. Sometimes we are lucky enough to be able to adopt the very County we are/were searching in. It is understandable that we would want to further our search for our own ancestors while coordinating that very county. However, please keep yours down to a low roar, and let others have a chance to find their ancestors, or submit their data too.

We welcome members of the Historical and/or Genealogical Societies that wish to host a County in the HIGenWeb Project. I have no objections to the Societies being noted on the pages, and even your Societies Logo (if you have one) being placed on the main page, just not as the predominant Logo. This is the HIGenWeb Project, which is part of the USGenWeb Project, and that must be first and foremost.

Main Page Requirements

HiGenWeb Logo and USGenWeb Logo

	The HIGenWeb Logo must be at the top of the main page of your County, at least. Optional Logos can be found on the Reception Committee page.
	USGenWeb Logo must be located on your main page. Optional Logos for this (2 different sizes, and the pillow Logo) are also found on the Offical USGenWeb Logos page.