[Genealib] Indexing

[Grimshaw, Kathy]

Hi, John-

We index our local paper daily (and have been since the mid 1970's). We
only index articles and obituaries that are relative to our town. Most
of our patrons use it to find death notices for their genealogy
projects, or to find articles about things that happened to their family
members.

It used to be done manually with index cards and then typed up at the
end of the year. I created a very simple database in Microsoft Access
with fields for date, page, a drop-down menu for subject headings, and a
field to fill in the headline (or name of person for an obituary). Each
year I create a new database (using the same subject headings) and then
we print out the index at the end of the year and keep it in a binder.

Yours,
Kathy Grimshaw-Haven

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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:32:23 -0500
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Subject: [Genealib] Indexing Projects
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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.