Tell others about the genealogical sites you frequent. Show people how to use them. The more people that use them, the more
successful they are likely to be.
Volunteer to help. Most of these projects are created and maintained by volunteers. They always need new helpers to replace
those that burn out, retire, or become unable to help.
Look at their web pages, and if you know of something useful on the web for that locality that they don't show, let them know
(e-mail links usually appear on most pages).
See how their web pages can help you. If you can think of a better way, or something that is missing, let them know.
Everyone will benefit if the idea truly is an improvement.
Work on on extraction or other project, then see that the resulting data is made available.
Offer to do lookups for something specific to which you have easy access.
Leave a query about your ancestors. The larger the query database, the more likely that visitors will be successful.
Reprinted from Genealogical Research on the Internet with permission of the author, DeAnne Anderson Shelley.
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