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  Information for New Borough
& Census Area Administrators

 

If you know the town, but not the borough or census area,  click here.

So, you're interested in adopting a borough or census area. Hopefully, this page will answer any questions you might have. If you have any suggestions that might be of help on this page, please let me know.

WHAT IS REQUIRED:

  1. A love of history and genealogy, and a willingness to share information on a web site.
  2. The ability to create web pages.
  3. Familiarize yourself with the mission and the purpose of the project. For more information on the Trails to the Past (TTTP), please visit the national website at http://www.trailstothepast.org/.

 

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS:

There are a few requirements for county administrators for their pages.

  1. You must obtain your own web space. You are free to get web space from whomever you choose. Many of the TTTP county administrators use Rootsweb because they offer free space to all TTTP-affiliated county administrators.  (Be aware that Rootsweb will place a banner across every page of your site.)
  2. Logos: National logos are provided on the TTTP Logos page. Alaska TTTP graphics are located here.  At the minimum, webmasters must have both on their site index pages and link those logos back to the respective TTTP National Page and the Alaska TTTP State page. 
  3. Your site must contain some original content and not be a site of external links.
  4. No other project is to be linked to (xxGenWeb, ALHN, AHGP, Genealogy Trails, etc.) from a TTTP site.
  5. You must respect copyright law. If you have any questions regarding copyright, please see U.S. Copyright Office
  6. All web pages must be child-safe sites. In other words, no pornography or obscene subject matter, photos or otherwise.  Objectionable links to the former are also not authorized.
  7. Other than these above listed requirements, these are independent sites and therefore are yours to create and maintain.
  8. Once you have decided to adopt a borough or census area, please get in touch with the Alaska TTTP Administrator.  If you are interested in adopting a city, town or village, please get in touch with the appropriate borough or census area webmaster.
  9. You will be subscribed to the mailing list for county administrators.  This is necessary to keep everyone in the loop as to what's going on to develop Alaska's TTTP resources, etc.
  10. There are currently no other guidelines past the above.  This is a project meant to be free of rules, hence no frustration with politics.

 

CREATING WEB PAGES

Want to adopt but don't know how to create your own web pages? Try these tutorials:

Here's another helpful web site with lots of information: Help4Web

 

FTP

Ftp is a program that allows you to upload your newly created or edited web pages onto your webspace provider. These are two of the more popular programs and have free trial versions available for downloading.