[Genealib] Hispanic genealogy

[Larry Oathout]

We didn't have the local German Newspaper digitized, but a man took all of 
the reels and transcribed the the obits!  What a help that was for us.  The 
Historical Society later took his work and published a book that had the 
English and German side by side.  For a small community with a HUGE German 
population, that was priceless.
 
Larry Oathout
Director
Tell City-Perry County Library
Tell City, IN 47586
812-547-2661
(Fax) 547-3038
www.tcpclibrary.org


-----Original Message-----
From: "Ernie Thode" <ernie at wcplib.lib.oh.us>
To: "Librarians Serving Genealogists" <genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu>
Cc: 
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:11:29 GMT
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 
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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