Volunteer!

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.

Being a Nonprofit Volunteer . . . A DVHH Volunteer Story

 		 
· Jody McKim, Chair GA-USA
 · Beth Tolfree, CA-USA
· Peter Haas, Vienna-AUT
· Jane E Moore UT-US

DVHH German Liaison: Peter Haas

 

Village Coordinator Guidelines

Please read the following:

  • The DVHH Project is for people of Donauschwaben descent.  Please place your villages' German name variant (if known) and all other language variants on your village home page, this will ensure people will find your site.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 your village page be a part of your website.

  • We ask that you provide one of the below logos (both transparent) and link the image to www.dvhh.org on your Village web pages.  (right click copy/save):

1: Independently hosted sites: 2: DVHH Hosted Sites:

Partner of DVHH

Donauschwaben Villages' Helping Hands
  • We ask that you provide a link to the DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES Mailing List [DVHH-L] sponsored by Rootsweb on your website:
    http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/HUN/DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES.html

  • We ask that you 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.  We are attempting to provide research and cultural information important to the family historian of a Donauschwaben family.

To Volunteer: Check the Volunteer Registry, if your village has a registered Village Coordinator, you can still volunteer to assist, we encourage co-coordinating.

When submitting your request indicate the position you would like, the Region and the village or interest.  IE.: Region: Banat, Village: Mercydorf

If you have an existing 'village' website provide us the URL so we can add it to the Village Index.  We encourage you to submit a picture of yourself, people like to put a face with a name.

The DVHH 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 Acceptable Use Policy.'

DVHH Volunteer Village Coordinator Application
 (Application opens into a new window, save the doc to your computer, complete form and submit.)

The DVHH welcomes you!

      

 

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