[Genealib] Indexing Projects

[lhdesk]

I believe the following would qualify as an "indexing project".

We have been working on entering all of the county's cemetery listings and 30+ years worth of newspaper obituaries into Excel spreadsheets and then transforming them into MySQL database tables on our website. People can now search by first and/or last name for cemetery listings within our county from anywhere in the world. The cemetery listings are nearing completion and can be found on our website here: http://www.putnam.lib.in.us/lh/index.php .

The obituary project is just getting started and does not yet have a public link available. However, you can see how it works by visiting http://www.putnam.lib.in.us/lh/obituaries/index2.php and searching for the name "Abbott".

The website coding was written by myself, while our network administrator arranged for our system to have the necessary PHP and My-SQL capabilities. The result has been that the library has saved a lot of money by developing the software internally, while also making our records more easily searchable and available to a much wider audience.

Rick Monroe
Local History & Genealogy Dept.
Putnam County Public Library


------- 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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