About ALHN

The American Local History Network (ALHN) is a nonprofit public benefit corporation whose purpose is to serve as the hub of a network of freely-accessible, independent historical and genealogical web sites maintained by volunteer webmasters. All ALHN websites are categorized by State or Topic. If you have an historical or genealogical website and wish to become an independent ALHN Webmaster: 
 

1. Your site must contain some original content, and not be collection of links to other sites, unless it is comprehensive on a particular subject.

2. Multiple sites from the same community/county/city are permitted. Everyone has different talents and amounts of time to devote to historical/genealogical projects, and we want to be inclusive of everyone who wants to join.

3. You must respect copyright law.

4. Each ALHN website must include a reciprocal link and logo to either http://www.alhn.org or the appropriate affiliated ALHN website(s). An ALHN logo is defined as any logo that includes either "ALHN" or "American Local History Network;" or the logo of the appropriate affiliated ALHN website(s).

5. If you move your web site or discontinue it, we would appreciate being notified.

6. We will not link to racist, obscene, sites which are intentionally offensive, or promote points of view which tend to stir debate or controversy among significant parts of society. This network is about presenting information, not a debating society.

7. To submit your state  email the ALHN States webmaster; or topical site email the ALHN Topics webmaster , email the To submit your county or township, email the applicable ALHN state or county webmaster (See ALHN States).

1. To insure that we mean no one any harm, or have any intention of infringing on your copyright to your work, each participitant will be expected to find space for their web projects. There is lots of free space on the web, so if you have a concept, but don't have the space, contact us, and we will point you in the right direction.

2. You may belong and participate in other projects with the same page or web project.

3. Content is up to you, but may include such diverse topics as folk music, local history, cemeteries, politicians, church history, anthropology, genealogy, military history, or geology, etc. See our Topical Selection list for more topics, but this is not exhaustive, if you have an idea that we haven't thought about, Contact Us to discuss it!

We need folks to collect and organize web sites to become webmasters for their area of expertise. If you can agree with the statement of principals, and would like to do this, please let us know.
 

1. Try to develop a web project on a topic for which you have some expertise.

2. Whether or not you have a query section is entirely up to you. There are lots of places for queries out there, for example: USGenWeb, and GenForum

3. If you need assistance in developing a project, let us know and we will see if something can be worked out.

1. ALHN Webmasters List: All ALHN webmasters are eligible to subscribe to the ALHN Webmasters List. To subscribe, email: alhn-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

2. ALHN Membership List: Although ALHN's webmasters are not required to join ALHN as voting members, we encourage all to do so in order to have a voice (vote) in national policies and activities. To sign up for the ALHN Membership-Voting List, which is used only for official announcements and polls, email: alhn-membership-voting-subscribe@yahoogroups.com