[Genealib] Newspaper Indexing

[Trevia W Beverly]

Paulette, possibility of receiving a copy of your instruction book?  Scanned copy would be acceptable for me at treviawbeverly at houston.rr.com  or I'll be happy to reimburse if it needs to be mailed.
  
thanks!
    
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paulette Parpart 
  To: Librarians Serving Genealogists 
  Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 2:35 PM
  Subject: RE: [Genealib] Newspaper Indexing


  Dear Jim,

   

  We have been indexing our newspapers since 1980, both current and old issues. We tried to use the method you are anticipating using . just the obits, then the marriages. We found that doing both at the same time has worked better. Our problem (because we are a minimum 8-page daily) was finding someone to read the papers more than once. We selected the items we wanted indexed and made a list. These items were then indexed simultaneously. We currently index about 15 vital records from our papers: death, birth, divorce, marriages (including bridal showers, pictures, anniversaries, etc.), name changes (legals), military service, generation photographs, class reunion (photos), family reunion (photos), and some others that may not appear in other papers.

   

  Out motto: Do the most you can do while reading the papers.

   

  We created a small instruction handbook for volunteers to use and updated it when it was necessary. We have shared this with anyone who was interested. It can be adjusted for a daily to a weekly. The needs are different.

   

  Hope this helps .

   

  Paulette from Montana


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  From: genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu [mailto:genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu] On Behalf Of Jim Holland
  Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 11:50 AM
  To: genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
  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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