[Genealib] Re: Indexing Projects

[Scott Mumford]

We (Franklin County Library, NC) are indexing our local newspaper, The
Franklin Times . We have the newspaper on microfilm starting in 1879. We
transcribe the obits (year, month, day, surname, and other names) on paper
and then enter them into an MS Access database. We're currently working on
putting them on our website (www.fcnclibrary.org) and we'll keep bound paper
copies in our locations. We may also try to get the full index published
when it's complete up to a certain year and then more volumes as they're
completed. As far as why we're doing this, it's simple. The Franklin Times
itself doesn't keep older copies of its newspapers. We're only one of two
locations that I'm aware of that has it on microfilm. If we don't do this,
among other things, we could lose close to 130 years of this areas history.
As of now we've indexed 12,521 obits; we still have a long way to go.

Scott Mumford