The DVHH
Project always appreciates, and is in need
of, those who can volunteer to work with us
in any capacity. Whether it be assisting
with the preparation of materials to be
published, answering email queries, starting
a new village website, performing look
ups, mentoring, serving on committees, or simply sharing
your ideas. We believe everyone has
something they can offer. Come join our
group of 'Helping Hands' and help us make
the DVHH even more helpful to fellow
researchers.
(Registration Required)
for assistance contact
Forum Coordinator:
Ludwig Keck
Last
Updated:
10 Aug 2011
Village
Coordinator Simple Guidelines
Please read the
following:
Promoting your Village: DVHH
Village Coordinators are
required to provide the
villages'
German name variant (if known)
and all other name variants
on your village home page, this
will ensure people will find
your site.
Helping Newbie's: We ask that
requests for assistance be handled in a timely
manner. Please be patient
with those asking for help and recognize their
inexperience. Educating them is the most
productive way to help them grow. Remember we
all started at the bottom.
Receiving a request for
research assistance: We
recommended that you ask the
researcher to join our mail list
and post their inquiry to the
entire mail list; where you
will respond back and provide
the results of your findings.
This cuts down on duplicating
requests, provides a broader
audience, and stores the data in
our Rootsweb archive.
Be Kind to Yourself:
You are here to assist
researchers to get over their
research hurdles, not to build
their entire tree or to be taken
advantage of.
Website Focus: We ask that the
primary focus of your village pages be aligned
with the goals of the DVHH project, avoiding
“personal WebPages.” We do suggest a designated
“Family Registry" for fellow researchers of your village.
DVHH Logo
Format & Usage: DVHH Village
Coordinators are required to
provide the appropriate DVHH
logo on their Village Web Site
and linked to
www.dvhh.org. (both are
transparent).
Subscription to DVHH Mail
List:
DVHH Village
Coordinators are required to
subscribe to the DVHH-L mail list, respond
to inquires regarding your village and
participate in general, contributing ideas and
sharing topics of general interest.
We ask that you
familiarize yourself with the pages of the
DVHH.org, in order to provide researchers the information we
have at our website.
In order to
maintain the impartiality of DVHH we ask that
you do not use the DVHH as a forum for political
or religious debates.
To Volunteer: Check the
Volunteer
Registry,if your village has a
registered Village Coordinator, you can still
volunteer to assist, we encourage co-coordinating.
If you have an
existing 'village' website provide us the URL so
we can add it to the Village Index. Please provide a
snap shotof yourself,
so folks can put a face with a
name.
We can
provide web hosting to Registered Village
Coordinators
in order to
publish a village website. Use of this service
is governed by the 'DVHH
Web Hosting Site Acceptable Use
Policy.'
