Policies and Guidelines
BritishIslesGenWeb Project

The BritishIslesGenWeb Project maintains very high standards in page creation, site management, and overall quality of presentation for all associated project pages. The BritishIslesGenWeb Project encourages freedom of expression, national cultural uniqueness and individual creativity by project hosts in the actual design of their pages. Certain elements are required, however, to help maintain the cohesiveness of the project.

1. All BritishIslesGenWeb Project sites share the same alpha-pneumonic name and all projects must conform to this standard. Example of project names are: ScotlandGenWeb Project or IrelandGenWeb Project. County or parish pages follow this same example: County of Ross, ScotlandGenWeb Project
2. All BritishIslesGenWeb Project websites must contain the WorldGenWeb Logo with a link to The WorldGenWeb Project.  Logos may be found at http://www.worldgenweb.org/index.php/component/content/article/25-the-project/63-worldgenweb-logos.  The Logo/Link is only required on the main page for the website.   
3. Country and county websites must contain a link to The BritishIslesGenWeb Project website located at http://www.britishislesgenweb.org This logo button may be used, but is not required.  The Logo/Link is only required on the main page for the website.
   
4. County websites must contain a link to the Country website.  The country host may require the use of a logo.
5. Non-Commercial Status: The BritishIslesGenWeb Project is a non-commercial entity. The BritishIslesGenWeb Project is dedicated to the concept of free exchange of public-domain records via the internet.
6. Copyright: The BritishIslesGenWeb Project encourages the collection and publication of non-copyrighted materials online by hosts. The BritishIslesGenWeb Project will not pay royalties to any organization or institution. Therefore, we stipulate that all materials placed online at any project website be free from copyright infringement.
7. The BritishIslesGenWeb Project feels strongly that GENUKI has some of the best material online to assist researchers in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Channel Islands. We are working collaboratively with them to provide additional services to researchers that are not currently available through their project setup.   It is not the aim of the BritishIslesGenWeb to replicate the resources available from GENUKI.  The BritishIslesGenWeb Project functions more as a query resource and family association project rather than as a national resource center.  Volunteers for any country or county website within the BritishIslesGenWeb should seek to provide those additional services that GENUKI does not provide.   Examples of that include:

   Query Pages
   Mailing Lists
   Lookup Resources
   Family Association Website Links

   Country and County hosts are strongly encouraged to contact and establish a relationship with the corresponding GENUKI county host.  The BritishIslesGenWeb Project has worked hard at establishing a strong collaborative relationship with GENUKI and will not permit an individual country/county host jeopardize that relationship. 
   

8. Country and County hosts will maintain a prominent link to the corresponding GENUKI website.
9. Privacy Rights of Individuals: The BritishIslesGenWeb project encourages the submission of genealogical data to all project websites.
10. The BritishIslesGenWeb Project endeavors to maintain that all materials collected through associated project websites will not be distributed commercially. Country coordinators and project volunteers work on the honor system and we "assume" that materials placed online are free from any copyright infringement and that they will not be sold or republished in any form.
11. Individual's who submit data to any website are free to include the word "private" in place of any records or dates. This does dilute the value of the record submitted but we wholeheartedly support the privacy rights of the individual.
12. Each Country and County coordinator is required to maintain a method for researchers to submit queries.  The coordinator may choose to administrate a query page/bulletin board system or they may choose to provide a link to an existing message board related to their region.
    The coordinator is free to choose a system/method which works best for their project web site.

Disclaimer: The BritishIslesGenWeb project does not guarantee the authenticity or source of any collected material place online at project websites and is to be held free from any and all liabilities based on such materials. The BritishIslesGenWeb will remove any materials found to be in violation of all U.S. Copy Right Laws and statutes.

Last updated 16 July 2001.