[Genealib] Newspaper Indexing

[Trevia W Beverly]

Jim, my personal opinion is that you will be doing a tremendous good deed for genealogical researchers!  

The term Newspaper Abstracting is more in line with what I *think* you are planning.

I would suggest keeping newspaper abstracts separate from tombstone inscriptions, etc., keeping the Newspaper Abstracts uncorrupted by other data --   

It would be good if you could make good use of your volunteers by abstracting all genealogy data at one time ... even if you do not publish  them until later.  The volunteer is already there.  Decide what you want to do.  
Obituaries - marriage notices - birth notices - keep it to something with dates.   But, of course, you could also abstract anything that has a name (personal columns, gossip columns, etc.)  ... 
      You might want to take a look at some published works to determine just what you want to do and in what content and format. 

  Good luck with the project!
   Trevia

Trevia Wooster Beverly
Houston, Texas

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim Holland 
  To: genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu 
  Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 12:50 PM
  Subject: [Genealib] Newspaper Indexing


     No one in our county has ever indexed the newspapers before. Even the local paper office sends people here to look up obituaries. We do not have many resources for this job, and I may be the only person available to work on this. 

   

     What would you suggest as a way to begin? We would want to begin with the obituaries, later we might include marriages, etc. I get the opinion that beginning with the older issues would be the most helpful as they are the hardest to find. We can find death dates several way including tombstone information, but it would be most helpful to know if an obituary exists before we spend a lot of time searching for it.

   

  Thanks!

   

  Jim Holland

  Interlibrary Loans/Local History/Genealogy Cleveland County Memorial Library

  104 Howie Drive

  Shelby NC 28150

  Phone: 704-487-9069 ext 225 Fax: 704-487-4856

  Email: jholland at ccml.org

   

  Opinions expressed in this message may not represent the policy of  my agency.

   

   



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