Submit Data

We encourage and appreciate any submissions of genealogical materials to Carroll County Genealogy, INGenWeb. You may send your data in plain text, HTML or attachments via email to the County Coordinator. Please be specific in the subject line and reference Carroll County to avoid your email being mistaken for spam by my junk email filters; Example: "Carroll County Data: William Brown's Biography." Don't forget to include your name and the email address you prefer to use for credits on the website for your submission.

Please read the guidelines below regarding materials submitted to the website, and if you have additional questions not covered below, don't hesitate to drop me a line. I thank you in advance for your generous contributions to Carroll County Genealogy and helping in our quest to make as much free online information available for Carroll County researchers as possible.

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Guidelines

Copyright - Please be aware of copyright for material submitted and only contribute data that is used without copyright infringement, e.g., meets fair use criteria, within public domain, or if under copyright, you have received specific written permission to use it. However, certain vital facts such as names, birth, marriage and death dates, burial locations, etc., are public information facts and can not be copyrighted. It's only the "creative expression" of the material that can be copyrighted ... not the facts! When submitting your personal data; genealogy reports, photographs, compilations, etc., you will maintain your copyright of the material, but you have given Carroll County Genealogy, INGenWeb the right to publish that material online, and the rights of others to copy or use it for private family, non-commercial, non-profit genealogical purposes only, by your act of submission.

Sources - Whenever possible, include complete sources for material submitted, i.e.: name of publication, author, title, page number, publisher and date of publication, etc. If possible, include the repository (name of library, etc.) where the original is located.

Genealogy Reports - All descendant, ancestor and family group sheet reports sent in plain text or html are welcome.

Privatize Information - My policy is similar to the accepted guidelines that RootsWeb or Ancestry.com follow regarding online genealogy, and that is to refrain from posting vital information regarding living individuals; birth dates, marriage dates, addresses, etc. When submitting genealogy reports, please temporarily change your settings on your genealogy software to "privatize" your data before generating your reports. Generally this will still allow the inclusion of all names and relationships in your reports, but it will not show the vital dates and information for living individuals. Deceased individuals will continue to show with all vital dates, etc. Another alternative if you prefer, is to produce a shorter standard report with less generations showing, and ending with births circa 1930 [last available open Census]. If you have questions, just send me a note.

Obituaries, Vital Records, Memorabilia & Newspaper Items - These items are always of interest and value to the genealogist, but I request that they generally be older items, and thus more genealogical in nature. You may send your transcribed copies in any type of text format. If you would like to submit an actual digital copy (jpeg) of a news clipping, vital record, obituary, etc., please also send a transcribed text version to post. Search engines will only find names, etc., in text versions, but not within graphics.

Editing - Occasionally it may be necessary to edit or reformat data submitted for accuracy, clarity or website structure. However, I will always attempt to maintain the original content in its entirety.

Photographs - All photographs with Carroll County connections are welcome, e.g.; individuals, homes, buildings, geographical locations, cemeteries and gravestones, etc. Please generally refrain from submitting photographs of living individuals, or only if their explicit consent has been given, excepting of course, those of buildings, cemeteries, gravestones, etc. Please submit your scanned, digitized images in a large enough resolution for printing, e.g., 200-300dpi.