[Genealib] Indexing Projects

[Becky Hill]

The Ohio Obituary Index (www.rbhayes.org/index) hosted by the Rutherford B.
Hayes Presidential Library is a large grassroots indexing project which was
designed to index obituaries from newspapers, but also any other source that
might be useful for local history - funeral home records, cemeteries, wills
and estates, county histories, etc. For a list of Other Sources indexed
click here http://www.rbhayes.org/hayes/index/OtherSources.asp

It is a web-based database.  Data entry can be from any internet computer.
We have  volunteers inputting data from their homes, along with staff and
volunteers in our library.

Because of its popularity,  40 Ohio public libraries have become partners
and are now entering their data and we would like to continue to add more
Ohio libraries to the system. We have about 1.4 million names in the
database. The program is not one that can be bought off the shelf, but  the
programmers are considering revising the system so that other states or
libraries could use the same system custom designed for them. If this is
something you might be interested in, please drop me an email.

Our Obit Index website gets about 750,000 hits a month.  We fulfill orders
for about 300 obits a month here at the Hayes Center, with partner libraries
also getting orders at their location.  Our system also allows for an online
shopping cart which is used heavily and very much appreciated by the
patrons. For a small research library, the added income from the orders and
the partnerships have been greatly appreciated.

If you are interested in more details, please contact me at the addresses
below

Becky Hill

Rebecca B. Hill
Head Librarian
Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
Spiegel Grove
Fremont, OH 43420-2796

419-332-2081   ext. 31
419-332-4952 (fax)
bhill at rbhayes.org <mailto:bhill at rbhayes.org>
www.rbhayes.org <http://www.rbhayes.org>



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  ------- 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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