LDS Church starts scanning the microfilm collection.

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James W Anderson

LDS Church starts scanning the microfilm collection.

Legg inn av James W Anderson » 16 mar 2006 01:20:46

Found this story on the LDS Church's website about how they are now
starting the scanning process for the microfilm collection.

http://www.lds.org/library/display/0,49 ... -9,00.html

Chad Hanna

Re: LDS Church starts scanning the microfilm collection.

Legg inn av Chad Hanna » 16 mar 2006 01:48:52

In message <1142468446.188983.149380@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>,
James W Anderson <jander7@hotmail.com> writes
Found this story on the LDS Church's website about how they are now
starting the scanning process for the microfilm collection.

http://www.lds.org/library/display/0,49 ... -9,00.html

Old news. They presented about this at the Federation of Genealogical

Societies Conference in Salt Lake City last September. At the time, they
were hoping to complete the scanning in 6 years ramping up to 25
scanners (I seem to recall).

Remember these are images with minimal indexing, perhaps just to the
level of item/register.

Being able to access them in FHCs is one thing, the big problem will be
renegotiating the rights necessary to make the images more widely
available.

Chad

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lenni

Re: LDS Church starts scanning the microfilm collection.

Legg inn av lenni » 16 mar 2006 04:41:41

James W Anderson wrote:
Found this story on the LDS Church's website about how they are now
starting the scanning process for the microfilm collection.

http://www.lds.org/library/display/0,49 ... -9,00.html
Thanks for the link. I hadn't heard the news. I guess that I'm not up

to speed on these things! ;-)

Chad Hanna wrote:
Remember these are images with minimal indexing, perhaps just to the
level of item/register.
I think that the article may be more up to date than the September FGS

conference information. Here is a snippet:
"The digital images are then readied for use by the Church's online
indexing program, where volunteers over time will help extract the
birth, marriage, and death information from the images to create free
searchable indexes (sic) online (like the 1880 U.S., 1880 Canada, and
1881 British Censuses currently found at FamilySearch.org)."

Kathleen

James W Anderson

Re: LDS Church starts scanning the microfilm collection.

Legg inn av James W Anderson » 16 mar 2006 05:06:16

Yes, the whole project is old news, however, the article details the
current state of what they are doing.

There are more details about how it all will work. I've also heard the
indexing program is being readied, and the 'family tree' portion is
about to enter Beta 2.

This is going to be one heck of a year when all of this begins to show
up. I anticipate the announcements to be made later this year.

LDS General Conference is coming up the first weekend in April. If
they announce anything it may be during that as well, otherwise the
next big opportunity will be at the major conventions, or the BYU
workshop in August, FGS again later this year, and at the October LDS
General Conference (Sept 30/Oct 1) as well.

But also, announcements could come at any time otherwise on these
things as well.

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