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Welcome to the Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness Wiki

The original Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK) website the brain child of Bridgett Schneider. Shortly before her death in 2011, she had a computer disaster and the site has been down since. The users and volunteers of RAOGK created this wiki in her memory and to bring back a site we dearly loved and missed.

RAOGK volunteers agreed to do a free genealogy research task at least once per month in their local area as an act of kindness. While the RAOGK volunteers do not charge for their research time, persons requesting a volunteer's help MUST PAY the volunteer for expenses incurred in fulfilling the research request (copies, printing fees, postage, film or video tape, parking fees, gasoline, etc.). Voluteers indicate what services they are willing to perform -- e.g., courthouse/public records lookups, library research, tombstone research, etc. -- and what expenses they expect to be reimbursed for. All they ask is reimbursement for their expenses (never their time) and a thank you.

Before the RAOGK site went dark, the global organization consisted of over 4,000 olunteers in every U.S. state and many international locations.

Getting Started at RAOGK

Welcome to this Wikia, and thank you for your contributions! We invite you to log in and create a user name.

Creating a user name is free and takes only a minute and it gives you greater anonymity if that is your wish. In addition, it is easier for other contributors to ask you questions and help you.

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If you are new to Wikia or wikis in general, please visit the Community portal for an outline of some of the main parts of the site and links to pages that show you how to edit.
Discussion of any aspect of the site, and enquiries, can be made at the Forum or on the "discussion" page associated with each article. Please sign and date your contributions there, so that readers know "who to talk to" and whether your message is probably still of current interest.

Research Request Guidelines

Before requesting research help from a volunteer, please read the Research Request Guidelines page.

Info for Volunteers

Before volunteering, please read the Info for Volunteers page.

Historical Background Info

For now, see the Wikipedia article about RAOGK.

(In time, when all the state and international pages are restored, this section can be modified.)

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 ==Welcome to the Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness Wiki==
-The original Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK) website was the brain child of Bridgett Schneider. Shortly before her death in 2011, she had a computer disaster and the site has been down since. Before the RAOGK site went dark, the global organization consisted of over 4,000 volunteers in every U.S. state and many international locations.
+The original Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK) website the brain child of Bridgett Schneider. Shortly before her death in 2011, she had a computer disaster and the site has been down since. The users and volunteers of RAOGK created this wiki in her memory and to bring back a site we dearly loved and missed.
-The RAOGK wiki is dedicated to Bridgett's memory, to continue her efforts, and to bring back a site researchers and volunteers dearly loved and miss.
-The way RAOGK worked was that volunteers agreed to do at least one free genealogy research task per month in their local area as an Act of Kindness.
+RAOGK volunteers agreed to do a free genealogy research task at least once per month in their local area as an act of kindness.
-The RAOGK volunteers agreed not to charge for their research time; however, researchers were required to reimbuse the volunteer for expenses incurred in fulfilling the research request (e.g., copies, printing fees, postage, film or video tape, parking fees, gasoline, etc.).
+While the RAOGK volunteers do not charge for their research time, persons requesting a volunteer's help MUST PAY the volunteer for expenses incurred in fulfilling the research request (copies, printing fees, postage, film or video tape, parking fees, gasoline, etc.). Voluteers indicate what services they are willing to perform -- e.g., courthouse/public records lookups, library research, tombstone research, etc. -- and what expenses they expect to be reimbursed for. All they ask is reimbursement for their expenses (never their time) and a thank you.
+Before the RAOGK site went dark, the global organization consisted of over 4,000 olunteers in every U.S. state and many international locations.
-* On state pages, volunteers would indicate what services they would perform -- e.g., courthouse/public records lookups, library research, tombstone research, etc. -- and what expenses (never their time) they expected reimbursement for.
-* Similarly, researchers would locate a volunteer by going to a state page and selecting a researcher from a list of counties and based on the volunteer's description of services they would perform.
 ==Getting Started at RAOGK==