What's next to be digitized?

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Michael Horowitz

What's next to be digitized?

Legg inn av Michael Horowitz » 09 mar 2007 18:20:15

Apparently Ancestry and Heritage footed the bill to take the Fed
Census and convert it to a database.

Anyone know what they plan on scanning/digitizing next?

I would guess marriage/divorce records for Kings Co., New York in the
'30s would be low on the list - perhaps it's time to hit the local
Stake.

- Mike

ecunningham

Re: What's next to be digitized?

Legg inn av ecunningham » 09 mar 2007 20:38:08

Michael Horowitz wrote:

Anyone know what they plan on scanning/digitizing next?

I would guess marriage/divorce records for Kings Co., New York in the
'30s would be low on the list - perhaps it's time to hit the local
Stake.

Mike: I would hit http://www.italiangen.org first to save ordering
the index films for marriages.
ecunningham@att.net

Michael Horowitz

Re: What's next to be digitized?

Legg inn av Michael Horowitz » 09 mar 2007 21:58:55

On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:38:08 -0500, ecunningham <ecunningham@att.net>
wrote:

Michael Horowitz wrote:

Anyone know what they plan on scanning/digitizing next?

I would guess marriage/divorce records for Kings Co., New York in the
'30s would be low on the list - perhaps it's time to hit the local
Stake.

Mike: I would hit http://www.italiangen.org first to save ordering
the index films for marriages.
ecunningham@att.net




Great suggestion; thanks a bunch -

I guess their work is not complete yet; I have a certificate for
George Garvin, got married in '31, certificate 5220 which doesn't show
in their groom index. But I'll give it a try with another name.
Thanks, Mike

ecunningham

Re: What's next to be digitized?

Legg inn av ecunningham » 10 mar 2007 01:01:49

Michael Horowitz wrote:

I guess their work is not complete yet; I have a certificate for
George Garvin, got married in '31, certificate 5220 which doesn't show
in their groom index. But I'll give it a try with another name.

Mike: To Lydia Belk on May 3? Shows up under bride's index.
ecunningham@att.net

Michael Horowitz

Re: What's next to be digitized?

Legg inn av Michael Horowitz » 10 mar 2007 02:14:35

On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:01:49 -0500, ecunningham <ecunningham@att.net>
wrote:


Mike: To Lydia Belk on May 3? Shows up under bride's index.
ecunningham@att.net

Nope; Sarah Karl; I've e-mailed a copy of there cert. - Mike

ecunningham

Re: What's next to be digitized?

Legg inn av ecunningham » 10 mar 2007 02:45:59

Michael Horowitz wrote:

Nope; Sarah Karl; I've e-mailed a copy of there cert. - Mike
Mike: As said off list, he is indexed as Garwin which proves indexes

are great, but do have their limitations. :)
ec

Michael Horowitz

Re: What's next to be digitized?

Legg inn av Michael Horowitz » 10 mar 2007 03:05:20

On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:45:59 -0500, ecunningham <ecunningham@att.net>
wrote:

Michael Horowitz wrote:

Nope; Sarah Karl; I've e-mailed a copy of there cert. - Mike
Mike: As said off list, he is indexed as Garwin which proves indexes
are great, but do have their limitations. :)
ec


I followed your steps and found him.
How in the world would I have known to look for Garwin vice
Garvin?????

The first time I did this, is was looking at microfilm, so I guess the
text translation software needs a bit of tweeking.

It's must be about 0204 GMT; what you doing up so late? :) - Mike in
Falls Church, VA, USA

jj206

Re: What's next to be digitized?

Legg inn av jj206 » 10 mar 2007 11:43:11

Michael Horowitz wrote:
Apparently Ancestry and Heritage footed the bill to take the Fed
Census and convert it to a database.

Anyone know what they plan on scanning/digitizing next?

I would guess marriage/divorce records for Kings Co., New York in the
'30s would be low on the list - perhaps it's time to hit the local
Stake.

- Mike

I have no idea what Ancestry and Heritage are up to.

Here at the Seattle National Archives, we are almost ready to digitize a
local prison called McNeil Island. I've only done a few pages since I
volunteer on busy Mondays and Fridays. (^:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNeil_Island

Jonathan

Michael Horowitz

Re: What's next to be digitized?

Legg inn av Michael Horowitz » 10 mar 2007 12:35:25

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:43:11 -0800, jj206
<jj206@remoooooooooooovethisdrizzle.com> wrote:


Here at the Seattle National Archives, we are almost ready to digitize a
local prison called McNeil Island. I've only done a few pages since I
volunteer on busy Mondays and Fridays. (^:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNeil_Island

Jonathan

Jonathan -

Is it safe to assume you have handwriting recognition software that
will digitize a written document, then a team of editors that check
the translation was correct? Can you "teach" the software to
recognize different styles of a particular handwriting? - Mike

jj206

Re: What's next to be digitized?

Legg inn av jj206 » 11 mar 2007 08:49:57

Michael Horowitz wrote:
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:43:11 -0800, jj206
jj206@remoooooooooooovethisdrizzle.com> wrote:

Here at the Seattle National Archives, we are almost ready to digitize a
local prison called McNeil Island. I've only done a few pages since I
volunteer on busy Mondays and Fridays. (^:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNeil_Island

Jonathan

Jonathan -

Is it safe to assume you have handwriting recognition software that
will digitize a written document, then a team of editors that check
the translation was correct? Can you "teach" the software to
recognize different styles of a particular handwriting? - Mike

Hi Mike,

I don't know how far back the records go, but the records I looked at
were typed pages. So they are easy to read.

Some one else might be working on the older hand written data, I'll ask
around. Or perhaps it was done before I got there.

Jonathan

James W Anderson

Re: What's next to be digitized?

Legg inn av James W Anderson » 15 mar 2007 02:49:58

There's more to this.

FamilySearch Indexing is doing the 1900 US Census. They've burned
through about 20 states so far, another ten or so were started over
the last weekend and this week.

Partnering genealogical societies are doing all Indiana marriages from
practically territorial times to 1957, there's the Boston 1865 City
Census, adn more.

Eventually they hope to add a billion names a year to the FamilySearch
databases that way, they hope the first year for a billion names added
will be 2008, with each name tied to its image. All will be human-
done, you can volunteer and be part of this massive effort which will
in the end virtually digitize and index nearly every film the Family
History Library has, plus what they are capturing with digital
cameras.

Did you know that about 1 in 5 films has never left the vault since it
went in? Those will all be online too.

You can volunteer and be part of all of this, go to http://www.familysearchindexing.org
for more info.

Hugh Watkins

Re: What's next to be digitized?

Legg inn av Hugh Watkins » 15 mar 2007 04:01:20

James W Anderson wrote:
There's more to this.

FamilySearch Indexing is doing the 1900 US Census. They've burned
through about 20 states so far, another ten or so were started over
the last weekend and this week.

Partnering genealogical societies are doing all Indiana marriages from
practically territorial times to 1957, there's the Boston 1865 City
Census, adn more.

Eventually they hope to add a billion names a year to the FamilySearch
databases that way, they hope the first year for a billion names added
will be 2008, with each name tied to its image. All will be human-
done, you can volunteer and be part of this massive effort which will
in the end virtually digitize and index nearly every film the Family
History Library has, plus what they are capturing with digital
cameras.

Did you know that about 1 in 5 films has never left the vault since it
went in? Those will all be online too.

You can volunteer and be part of all of this, go to http://www.familysearchindexing.org
for more info.

GSU is filming imaging and indexing the parish registers of Wales
with the National Library of Wales

http://www.llgc.org.uk/

The Digital Mirror is the Digital Library of Wales. The collections of
The National Library of Wales digitised for you. Growing month by month.

http://www.llgc.org.uk/cronfa/index_s_adel.htm

enjoy

Hugh W







--

a wonderful artist in Denmark
http://www.ingerlisekristoffersen.dk/

Beta blogger
http://snaps4.blogspot.com/ photographs and walks

old blogger GENEALOGE
http://hughw36.blogspot.com/ MAIN BLOG

OldRoads

Re: What's next to be digitized?

Legg inn av OldRoads » 20 mar 2007 15:05:15

I'm in the process of scanning (digitizing!) my entire collection of
old maps.
There are maps from various US states, most from around the late
1800s.
Some maps show details such as property owner's names.

Vin - On-line old maps for genealogical, local history, real estate
and gold claims research at http://MenotomyMaps.com




On Mar 14, 10:01 pm, Hugh Watkins <hugh.watk...@gmail.com> wrote:
James W Anderson wrote:
There's more to this.

FamilySearch Indexing is doing the 1900 US Census. They've burned
through about 20 states so far, another ten or so were started over
the last weekend and this week.

Partnering genealogical societies are doing all Indiana marriages from
practically territorial times to 1957, there's the Boston 1865 City
Census, adn more.

Eventually they hope to add a billion names a year to the FamilySearch
databases that way, they hope the first year for a billion names added
will be 2008, with each name tied to its image. All will be human-
done, you can volunteer and be part of this massive effort which will
in the end virtually digitize and index nearly every film the Family
History Library has, plus what they are capturing with digital
cameras.

Did you know that about 1 in 5 films has never left the vault since it
went in? Those will all be online too.

You can volunteer and be part of all of this, go tohttp://www.familysearchindexing.org
for more info.

GSU is filming imaging and indexing the parish registers of Wales
with the National Library of Wales

http://www.llgc.org.uk/

The Digital Mirror is the Digital Library of Wales. The collections of
The National Library of Wales digitised for you. Growing month by month.

http://www.llgc.org.uk/cronfa/index_s_adel.htm

enjoy

Hugh W



--

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Beta bloggerhttp://snaps4.blogspot.com/ photographs and walks

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