Policies relating to the DSDdata Genealogy site

While the site will attempt to accommodate as many individual pages and contributions as possible, the decision concerning what will be displayed is that of the site administrator. It is expected that the email discussion groups maintained by rootsweb.com for the area in question will be asked for input on the difficult questions.

Text from out-of-print and/or out-of-copyright texts relating to the area

In comparison to the other sites which have been reviewed as containing text extracts, we believe that the pages which DSData has completed to date are presented in a substantially more reader-friendly form. Decide for yourself and let us know.

DSData wishes to include as many texts related to the individuals and history of the areas which we cover. Texts printed prior to 1940 will be considered for inclusion. However, the transcription or scanning of such tects is a labour intensive exercise and we will acknowledge any assistance that is received in this area.

If you have a text which you believe is a good candidate for inclusion in the site, or are willing to assist in providing already transcribed or scanned copies of appropriate text, please email comments or suggestions to the site administrator.

Census data for the areas

We believe that the present effort by others to transcribe census data is a beneficial and necessary task. However, we think that the current presentation is not the form which is required to present a useful and user-friendly research tool. Additionally, we believe that the census information should be cross-linked on an individual basis to other reference data.

This is an area which will be under development as time permits. In other words, drop back every couple of weeks and see what we have completed.

Access to personal ancestral information

We believe that our presentation of individual data is equal to or superior to any that we have seen on the web. And we invite others to submit appropriate information for inclusion.

The areas of interest for personal ancestral information include

• Northeastern Pennsylvania, USA
  The counties of Wayne, Susquehanna and Luzerne in Pennsylvania and
  Broome and Delaware counties in New York.
• The Great Southern Region of Southwestern Western Australia
  The area defined by the present shires of Denmark and Plantagenet and City of Albany
  The definition of adjoining areas will be "loosely" applied to mean country areas in Western Australia within about 150 kilometres of the southern coast.

The site is presently designed to permit access to information on specific individuals and family groups. We acknowledge that we can be criticised on the selection of the people who were initially included in the database. They were clearly a personal, rather than regional, set of data. The only comment that will be made is - You have to start somewhere.

We will - as time permits - add other persons to the set of data which is available for display. The following criteria for inclusion will be observed.

1. Individuals who resided in one of the selected areas before 1920.
2. All direct descendants and their spouses or partners of the individuals in group one. The siblings and parents of the spouses or partners in this group.
3. Siblings and direct ancestors of individuals in group one. The spouses or partners, and spouse's parents of individuals in this group. The (other) children and the children's spouses or partners and their children. Or in attempting to describe it in a different way, all persons within two generations of the direct ancestor of a person who resided in the area prior to 1920.
4. Siblings of individuals from group one who moved to adjoining areas as described above.
5. Individuals who create a family connection between two people from groups one, two or three, but who would otherwise not qualify. For example, a couple whose great-grand-daughters married two men whose grandchildren settled in the area.

Most likely, if there is a question of inclusion or not, the person/family will be included.
Please contact the site administrator before submitting data for inclusion.

It is anticipated that information submitted in GEDCOM format will be able to be added most easily. Contributors must supply an email address which can be included as a source contact. Normal mail and telephone contact information is desired but will not be displayed without permission of the submitter.

Photographs of individuals or families can be included where available by submitting "jpg" format graphics files and should be between 8,000 and 20,000 bytes in size (up to approximately 250 by 250 pixels). If multiple graphics files are to be submitted they must be labeled corresponding to the individual identification numbers contained in the accompanying GEDCOM file or by the reference number used by the site.

Please contact the site administrator before submitting data for inclusion.
Grandparents and Great-grandparents who lived in the areas and for whom you have photos are considered HIGHLY desirable.

Other local information of interest to genealogical or historical researchers

Where copies of tax rolls, cemetary listings, or extracts of newspaper birth, death or marriage announcements become available, they will be included in our text data section.

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