In June 1996, as the KyGenWeb Project was nearing 100% county coverage, interested volunteers decided to create a similar set of pages for all states, establishing The USGenWeb Project. Volunteers were found who were willing to coordinate the efforts for each state, and additional volunteers were sought to create and maintain website for every county in the United States. Although The USGenWeb Project was originally designed to be organized by stateand county, much genealogy data cannot be limited to a single county, or even a single state. So, USGenWeb Special Projects have evolved to collect and disseminate data that goes beyond county and state lines. The USGenWeb Project is still growing, and there are always opportunities for new volunteers to adopt county or state pages or participate in a Special Project. We welcome your interest and hope you find the efforts of our volunteers useful in your genealogy research.

 

The WorldGenWeb Project was created in 1996 by Dale Schneider in an effort to answer the growing needs of  genealogists world-wide who were trying to research their ancestors online. Dale's original goal (as is ours today!) was to have every country in the world represented by an online website and hosted by researchers who either live in their own country or who are familiar with their country's resources. Shortly after the WorldGenWeb Project debuted on the Internet in October of 1996 (it was first located on Dsenter.com)  volunteers were recruited to host country website. By the close of 1996 many of the larger countries in the world had website online, thanks in part to the early success of it's sister project, The USGenWeb Project (which went  online in June of 1996). Throughout the next year, our project continued to recruit volunteers and became firmly established as an online resource for international genealogists. On September 17, 1997, the WorldGenWeb Project decided to move to RootsWeb. Inc.com. With the support of RootsWeb,Inc.com administration, the WGW was able to grow to it's present size. Thanks to the good folks at RootsWeb, our project has had a firm foundation and continues to provide resource and reference information to the world.

 

Migrations was conceived on February 8, 1999 by Patrick Hayes, with the first Migrations pages for Custer and Fremont Counties, Colorado and Hancock County, Kentucky, which were modeled from the VAGenWeb Migrations Project. From there, within days the Colorado and Kentucky state Migration pages were coded with the idea of linking up all of the states and making it nationwide. In October, Migrations Project in Michigan was linked to USGenWeb and ALHN. Because of the teamwork of the volunteers from both of those projects, everything started to rapidly pick up speed. After several days of negotiations, the domain name was purchased on October 30, 1999, and coding was begun on the projects national database.

Migrations Homepage   Kentucky Migrations Project  Franklin County Migrations

The American Local History Network (ALHN) is a nonprofit public benefit corporation whose purpose is to serve as the hub of a network of freely-accessible, independent historical and genealogical web sites maintained by volunteer webmasters. All ALHN website are categorized by State or Topic. If you have an historical or genealogical website and wish to become an independent ALHN Webmaster: A central point of entry to independent web sites with historical or genealogical content. Our dream is to furnish you, the researcher, with the historical and genealogical information to round out your research on your ancestors. ALHN will be adding links and data in a continuous fashion. All contributions are gratefully accepted and the copyright for that information will continue to reside with the contributor. There are no "strings" attached to any contribution, you may take it back at anytime although it is our hope that you will not do so. ALHN does not exist to compete nor replace any other historical or genealogical organization, rather this is in addition to those worthwhile organizations.

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The Franklin County, Kentucky GenWeb website was built during the month of September 1998 by Anne Holder Lee.
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