[Genealib] Indexing Projects

[Don]

John,

I am doing indexing as a project of my own locally, not currently tied to a
library or society, as something I feel a need to do.  

 

I have indexed a local crematorium that is no longer in existence and am
nearing releasing it to the local library, a couple genealogy societies, and
the DAR.  I am presently working on a local funeral home that granted me
access to their records of 1932 - 2004 for a same purpose.

 

My method has been to create special tables in MS Word and will then convert
it to a PDF file for publishing on a CD.

 

I also assist a local 150 year old cemetery with rebuilding their records
and other matters.  There we have been using both Excel and MS Word for
creation of information and have published that database, (in Excel), and
obituaries, (in MS Word), on a website for people to view and find
information about their ancestors should they be seeking that.  I might add
that we received authorization from the papers before publishing the
obituaries on the cemetery website which was gratefully granted by them.

 

My reason for doing this is to assist others as I have been in so many ways
by giving back to the genealogy community.

 

Winfield

 

 

 

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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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