When making requests of volunteers:
- Make requests specific -- avoid being too general.
- Make requests ONLY for the volunteer's specified research areas. (Do not ask for out-of-area requests.)
- Never ask more than one volunteer for the same request.
- Ask the volunteer what reimbursements they require: copies, gas, parking, etc.
- Negotiate an estimated completion time ... Remember: volunteers are not "on the clock," may research for multiple people, and respond reasonably as their time permits.
Note: If no volunteer exists for an area, Follow the page for alerts of page changes. (Requires a wiki account.) Create a wiki account here.
- check back again. (New volunteers sign up daily.)
- join the FB RAOGK groups -- RAOGK USA and/or RAOGK International and post your research request. (One of the group members may live in that area and be willing to help.)
Volunteers
The list below includes volunteers who were willing to do research in the area covered by this page at the time the original RAOGK site went down in late 2011. What has been lost lost is the contact information for those individuals.
- If you are one of the volunteers below, please contact the Wiki Admin.
- If you used one of these researchers previously, please ask them to contact the Wiki Admin so that there will be a link for them and a means for researchers to contact them.
NOTE: ... Volunteers ... if you want to, you can easily Update Your Volunteer Information yourself. Wiki editing is easy!
- However, if you don't want to edit/add something yourself, just contact the Wiki Admin and indicate what you want added/modified.
NEW/RETURNING volunteers, contact: the Wiki Admin with the following information, in the order specified:
- State or Country:
- County or province, parish, region, etc:
- Your name: (This is a "display name". If your name is Susan Jones, you could want a display name of "Suzie" .. "SueJ" ... "Susan J" ... or even "Susan Jones"
- Act of Kindness: (Describe the services you are willing to provide.)
See also:
Note: The list below reflect the RAOGK volunteers as of the Way Back Machine Snapshot on Sep 15 2010.
| County | Volunteer | Act of Kindness |
|---|---|---|
| ALL | Sunny Shafer | BLACK SHEEP ANCESTORS:
Over the years I have accumulated several files/records, documents, news items etc (5 GB) I have scanned/transcribed/digitized so I can search my hard drive easily. This info includes in part: prison, asylum, inmate, mug shots & Bertillon records, wanted & missing posters, photos, poor/alms/work houses, orphanages, sanitariums, court records, road/prison camp, executions, pardons, convict ships info etc. This info covers all U.S. states [and other countries] and all time frames from 1400's to present but primarily 18th & 19th century. |
| ALL | Shelli | I will check my marriage index covering 1645-1899. I can also help with censuses. |
| New Castle | Ginger Farrow | Public Records lookups and copying. Searcher here in DE have Polks City directories at home. |
| New Castle | Diana Dallett | Will look up obituaries if there is a date (month/year). |
| New Castle | Ryan Bolles | Still photos of tombstones, public records lookups and copying. Delaware is fairly small. I'm open to discussing your specific request to determine what is possible. |
| New Castle | Ann McKelvie | Public Records (library and historical society) lookups and copying. Obituaries. Gravestone pictures. |
| New Castle | Debra | Public Records (courthouse) lookups and copying. Public Records (library) lookups and copying. Obituaries. Gravestone pictures. |
| Sussex | Joana S. Donovan | Still photos of tombstones, Public Records lookups and copying. |
| Sussex | Elizabeth Smith | Book lookups and census. I do not do 20th century requests. NO OBITS! |