INGenWeb is a volunteer group offering freely available genealogy resources online.
If you would like to add corrections, contribute your family history, documents, biographies, bible records, family stories, maps, and photos Contact Allen INGenWeb so we can add your information to our pages.
Some 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are not available today, and 8% of pages that existed in 2023 have disappeared. How fleeting is online content?
Some 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are not available today, and 8% of pages that existed in 2023 have disappeared. How fleeting is online content?
A screen shot of the Internet ArchiveWayback Machine web page shows how Allen INGenWeb looked in 1999. Allen INGenWeb started in the spring of 1996 when a group of Indiana genealogists working with Kentucky genealogists organizing the Kentucky Seekers web site organized a database project. They indexed and cross-linked while volunteers coordinated content into web pages. By June 1996 the USGenWeb Project was established and by October the plan was to organize by state and county.
Happy 23rd birthday Wayback Machine!
On October 24, 2001, The Internet Archive organization launched a free digital archive of websites for the general public called the Wayback Machine.
On October 24, 2001, The Internet Archive organization launched a free digital archive of websites for the general public called the Wayback Machine.
The oldest pages stored in the archive date back to 1996. [ Our Allen INGenWeb site launched in 1996! October 10, 1996 is shown above! ]
By August 29, 1996 Indiana had 47 counties online with 14 more volunteered and under construction. Frederick Bonjour was the first webmaster and then Allen County Coordinator Pat Bogel was being assisted by Fred Finkbiner by July 1997.
Franklin County INGenWeb has a page The Indiana GenWeb discussing Betty Sellers the first INGenWeb State Coordinator, assisted by Fred Finkbiner, describing the early years of INGenWeb.
In early 2000, Linda Churchward took over webmaster duties from Pat Bogel. Linda put all the information on cemeteries, churches, and funeral homes on the site.
In 2009, INGenWeb changed the web site host from Rootsweb, after it was acquired by Ancestry.com, to their own domain at www.ingenweb.org due to concern the free genealogy of GenWeb would be compromised.
In April 2009, Stan Follis took over as webmaster.
Pat Bogel passed away November 20. August 2009.
When the new host server said INGenWeb had too many pages, Allen INGenWeb moved to ACGSI.org. Many changes were made including adding a search box that searches both Allen INGenWeb and the main ACGSI site totaling more than 10,000 pages on both sites. Many new pages were added.
Social Media
In October 2009, social media was added when ACGSI joined Facebook. Within a month we had 20 Fans viewing Announcements and Events. Member obituaries are on the Notes page. In May 2010 ACGSI passed 100 Fans. In September 2010 photo albums of program meetings and Who Am I? photos needing identification were added. We currently have around 1,300 Facebook likes.
This history was possible due to contributions of several INGenWeb volunteer webmasters over the years such as former CC Linda Churchward; KySeeker: Betty Sellers in 1996; current INGenWeb County Coordinators: Judi Burns CC of Greene County, Mike Sweeney CC of Wabash County, Debby Beheler CC of IN State and Miami County, Tim Singleton CC of Randolph County, Gene Andert current and original CC of Kosciusko County and from 1996 Judy Murphy CC of Perry, Spencer and Crawford Counties.
