How to use this site
- Register -- it's free, and your information is private.
- Login.
- Search or browse to your heart's content.
- Submit information -- news items, Web links, calendar events, etc.
Why register?
Some Web sites don't require any registration. For the first eight years, we had nearly 13,000 visitors -- most of whom we will never know because they just drifted through, found what they wanted, and moved on.
This Web site gives casual enquirers limited information about our ancestry and our on-going activities. There's no record maintained of those visitors.
However, if anyone wants to view on-line records transcriptions or the other information we've uploaded, he or she has to register as a user of the Web site. Registration allows visitors to learn about origins of the surnames, read all the news clippings we find on-line, view our on-line photo album, and search through a public version of the Family Trees database that Laura Perry maintains for us (bless her).
We do not knowingly put information about living individuals in the database. We have a great deal of information in our off-line files that we are happy to share. All you have to do is ask. Please note, however, we do not share personal information about living individuals without their permission.
Registration also gives you some features besides access to the additional
information: you can post calendar events, post news items, post Web site
links, and stuff like that. That means the burden of keeping the site
"newsy" doesn't fall on one or two people the way it used to!
What's the "subscriber's" Family Trees database?
We have currently taken this part of the site down while we consider how to present information in the future.
How you can help
Many of our site's visitors are usually serious researchers. Please consider sharing your time, talent, or resources by
- Paying a small amount each year for support of the Web site
(our anticipated 2008 site cost is about $200) or our research expenses. Photocopies of records average $1.00 per page; birth and death certificates average $10.00 each.
- Doing general-interest research and sharing it with us.
- Being an "ambassador" -- make phone, written, or e-mail contact with relatives we can't place on the family tree and interview them about their ancestry.
The handful of "transcription angels" you see listed on our Web site are
people we don't expect to pay subscriptions. They're working their fingers to the bone to get information for us to use. Anybody can rise to that level!
Ways to donate funds
We have a secure PayPal account that allows you to use your debit/credit card without setting up your own PayPal account.
Whenever people don't want to send a donation via PayPal, they can just send a check to Billie R. McNamara, P. O. Box 6764, Knoxville, TN 37914-0764, with "Acuff-Ecoff donation" in the memo area. It will be deposited into the same savings account where PayPal donations go.
What do the donations support?
Whenever we have to make copies or pay for the Web site, we take the
money out of that account and send it to whoever expended funds.
If you've got a big research project planned, or if you have a ton of documents you want to donate but don't have the money for copies and postage, contact us. We can probably help.
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