[Genealib] Hispanic genealogy

[Jennifer Daugherty]

I have seen many projects lately that have funded the actual digitization of the records and then asked for volunteers to index them manually. (Ancestry has some freebies they are doing this with as well as the LDS site.)  Maybe the German-American records would be a good project for something like this if you could find an organization willing to take it on.
 
Jennifer Daugherty
Director of Reference and Information Services
Laurel County Public Library
120 College Park Drive
London, KY 40741
606-864-5759 x247

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From: genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu on behalf of Ernie Thode
Sent: Sat 6/13/2009 8:11 AM
To: Librarians Serving Genealogists
Subject: Re: [Genealib] Hispanic genealogy


I would also love to see historic German-American newspapers digitized.  One problem - I'm not sure it is insurmountable but it is a major problem - is getting any OCR software to recognize the German characters in the Fraktur (old German) typeface that the old German newspapers used.  I'd like to hear of any projects that  have been successful on a large scale in digitizing the old German type.



Ernie Thode
Local History & Genealogy
Washington County Public Library
Marietta, OH






-----Original Message-----
From: "charlene sokal" <csokal at charter.net>
Sent 6/12/2009 5:33:28 PM
To: "'Librarians Serving Genealogists'" <genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu>
Subject: RE: [Genealib] Hispanic genealogy



Mr. Kemp, 

 

It is great that GenealogyBank has a collection of Historic Hispanic American Newspapers.  As a new member I would like to see a collection of historic German American Newspapers as well.

 

Charlene Key Sokal

csokal at charter.net

 

From: genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu [mailto:genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Kemp
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 1:34 PM
To: Librarians Serving Genealogists
Subject: Re: [Genealib] Hispanic genealogy

 

GenealogyBank has the only collection of historical Hispanic American Newspapers online. 
Well over 300 titles - newspapers dating from 1808-1980. Newspapers are from across the country. 
 
They are packed with obits; birth/marriage notices; articles of all kinds. 
See: www.GenealogyBank.com <http://www.genealogybank.com/>  
These are by individual memberships. 

 

Libraries can also get the Hispanic American Newspapers directly from NewsBank.


Tom

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Grimshaw, Kathy <Grimshaw at cliftonpl.org> wrote:

While we're on the subject...

Does anyone have suggestions for specific titles dealing with basic
Hispanic genealogy (especially South and Central American)? I'm trying
to beef-up both our genealogy and foreign language collections, and
would love titles in both English and Spanish.

Thank you!
Kathy Grimshaw-Haven
Reference Librarian
Clifton Public Library
292 Piaget Ave.
Clifton, NJ 07011
(973) 772-5500

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