Guidelines for Submitting Files to the LAGenWeb Archives ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Contributor: B. Jo Branch Date: Original 2004; updated 23 Sep 2009 Date: Updated by Bryant Walker on 5 May 2015 Articles, Birth, Marriage, Death, Obituary, etc., information can most easily be submitted through GENRECORDS.ORG at: http://www.genrecords.org/lafiles/ It has user friendly data submission forms for all the categories of information submitted to the Louisiana Archives. Please use the forms if you can. If you cannot use the forms on Genrecords.org, the following guidelines should be followed for manually submitting information via email. Files for the LAGenWeb Archives can be sent as an attachment or in the body of the email message. Attachments should be saved as an ASCII Text File with a ".txt" extension. To do this, choose File/Save As/ ASCII DOS Text (your program may call it DOS Text or ASCII text....) The first line should contain the Parish Name, Louisiana Archives, Name of type of information, Name of individual, group, article title, etc. EXAMPLE: St Landry Parish Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Martel, Jr., Balthazar Next should be the following copyright notice: ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Below the copyright notice should include contributor information: EXAMPLE: File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: (Contributor Name and Email Address here) (Date submitted here) Next should be the Source where the information was obtained: EXAMPLE: The Opelousas Courier (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, February 02, 1889, Image 1 Next would come the body of the Article, Obituary, Death Notice, Birth info, Marriage info, or other information which is the main body of the information being submitted. Any additional notes should be added after the body content with a header such as "NOTES by Contributor" at the beginning of the notes. Last: Please submit the text file to the appropriate Parish File Manager found on the Louisiana Archives table of contents page at: http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm If it is a submission of general content pertaining to Louisiana, but not identified with a specific Parish, submit the file to the State File Manager found on the same page. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/state/history/archives/submissions.txt