Taos County, New Mexico
Town Adoption Requirements
This page contributed and copyrighted by Karen Mitchell.
1. You DO NOT need to know HTML to adopt a town. I will do the coding for you if you request.
2. All pages you post MUST have the same County Header as the original County pages. This means the title of the page, same colors, same background.
3. There will be a footnote on the page stating that all data posted is copyrighted by you. But as with all of the County pages the actual page remains under my copyright for protection purposes.
4. I do think that once you adopt a page, you should have an initial page posted within 30 days, but there can be exceptions for certain circumstances.
5. I suggest that you start with a history of the town. The length of the history is up to you. Then proceed with trying to name the first inhabitants, adding cemetery transcriptions, census for that town, town officials, churches, exciting news i.e floods, murders, hangings, etc. These are only SUGGESTIONS, and not necessarily requirements.
6. Once you start your page, you can add to it over time as you find new data. When you have more data to post simply send it on to me. Do not expect your data to be posted immediately, I will get it up as soon as I can, which may take a day or two.
7. You can not add your own gedcoms to the page but you are welcome to post family group sheets of the inhabitants, your own ancestors or others that you have found. You can find a Family Group Sheet form on our County pages or you can use a narrative form.
8. You may add a link to any of the data that is already on the County page, such as a cemetery or census.
9. Please run your data through a spell checker before sending it to me if you can.
10. The most important things are to have fun with it and expand your knowledge of the town. All of us will be excited to see the development of the page as time goes on and you add to it.
I do reserve the right to change these rules if need be, or if any of you have further suggestions.
HAVE FUN!!!
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