[Genealib] Indexing Projects

[lapiubella1]

Our community library in Western PA is indexing obituaries from our local newspaper. We've finished 1900-1953. I am currently working on 1954. It involves viewing each month, recording the surname, given name, residence at time of death, publ date, page#. After hand transcribing a month or 2, I then add them to a (building) Excel database. When we finish a year, we print it off and add to our bound and/or bindered shelf collection. This is an in-house only project, at the current time we have no plans to put it online. We may stop at 1976 because the local historical society has been compiling the 1976-to-current obits. We've taken their published lists and added them to our shelf collection. So we really have a black hole for the years 1954 to 1976.
I do this in a volunteer capacity to this library, as have the transcribers before me. However most of the folks involved in the transcribing and volunteering have been members of the local genealogical society.
Best wishes
Bella 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lyles, John 
  To: genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu 
  Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 9:32 AM
  Subject: [Genealib] Indexing Projects


  All,

  Interested to know how many Libraries and/or societies are currently undertaking indexing projects? If so, why? What software/tools are you using? Hosting on the web, in-house only, published? My thanks in advance.

   

  John L.

   



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