GADATA Mailing List:
                                      
                      Submit Your Genealogical Data!!
                                      
   The GADATA mailing list was created on Oct. 18, 1999 for the purpose
   of making it easier for anyone to post Georgia genealogical source
   materials online, for eventual inclusion into the Georgia USGenWeb
   Archives.
   
   These source materials include:
     * Bible Records
     * Biographies
     * Cemetery Lists
     * Census Transcriptions
     * Civil War Rosters
     * Death Certificates
     * Deeds
     * Family Histories
     * Marriage Records
     * Obituaries
     * Wills
     * etc.
       
   Now, there are a few simple rules that must be followed regarding
   posting. Our archivists are volunteers, who work very hard, and are
   really grateful to get more data to put online. Following these rules
   will help them add your data to the archives more quickly. They are:
     * The subject of the email needs to have...
          + the GEORGIA COUNTY first
          + the TYPE OF FILE (bio, deed, obit, will, etc.) second
          + the SURNAME of the person[s] involved (if it applies) last
     * The email itself absolutely cannot contain**
          + QUERIES!
          + DISCUSSION!
          + CHAIN LETTERS!
          + FILE ATTACHMENTS!
       
   The address is GADATA@rootsweb.com. All posts should be sent to that
   address only. If you would like to post, as well as receive every
   post, you must subscribe to either the GADATA.
   These two differ, in that:
     * GADATA is the 'list mode'. In this mode, you will recieve every
       post that goes to the list.
     * GADATA-D is the 'digest mode'. In this mode, you will recieve a
       single email containing all of the posts from a 48 hour period.
       This is especially good if your ISP charges a fee for every email.
       
   Only subscribers may post. To subscribe to GADATA; send an email to
   GADATA-request@rootsweb.com . The subject line will be ignored, and
   the body of the email must contain the word 'subscribe' only. To
   unsubscribe, the same applies, but email the word 'unsubscribe'.
   
   To subscribe or unsubscribe from GADATA-D, follow the above procedure
   as well; but send this email to GADATA-D-request@rootsweb.com.
   
   Please be sure to follow all of the rules and guidelines that you have
   seen on this page. It really makes everything work better for all of
   us. Remember, too, that the only address to post anything to is
   GADATA@rootsweb.com Digest subscribers should post here, as well.

   You do not have to subscribe to this list in order to donate documents
   to the archives.  You can send your files to Gerelyn Reaves,
   GERELYN222@aol.com or to David Morgan at dmorgan@efn.org.  There is a
   help file at 

   http://www.usgwarchives.org/contrib.htm

   and the guidelines of the USGenWeb Archives are at 

   http://www.usgwarchives.org/timetodo.htm   
                                      
   which has some valuable tips as well.  And you can send files to us
   as attachments, just not to the maii list.

Thanks to Bobby Edwards, who wrote the original version of this file for LADATA-L.