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From: "Aaron Hill" <>
Subject: Transcribing Records
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 20:36:51 PST

The Seattle public library and the University of Washington have very
large and rather extensive libraries. The Seattle downtown branch has a
full-time genealogy librarian and a large portion of the first floor
dedicated to genealogy and family history.

I want to put special emphasis on the fact that I can not and will not
be doing this alone. I need your help. Some people have responded to my
earlier requests for volunteers. And I thank them. However if this is
going to be useful for a wide variety of people we will need more
volunteers to transcribe records. I will only be doing the records that
pertain to my family. I will be transcribing the cemetery records where
my ancestors are buried, etc. So it is incumbent on you to help if you
want to make this data available to people via the internet.

I will be contacting the Iowa GenWeb staff to see how to get the
records.

Aaron

Dear Aaron-

Received your message. Congratulations on taking-on a daunting
task.

Obviously, I'm not up to speed on how all of this works, i.e., how
will you, living in
Seattle, transcribe the cemetery records of XXX? If this is a case
where the cemetery
provides the basic records in hard-copy, I'd be interested in Woodlawn
Cemetery in Des
Moines. I've got a number of relatives buried there.

Please keep me informed.

Best Wishes,

Robert Askew


Aaron Hill wrote:

> I want to introduce myself to all of the people subscribed to the Polk
> County, Iowa genealogy mailing list. My name is Aaron Hill. I was born
> in Ames. I currently live and work in Seattle. My ancestors and
> relatives have lived in Iowa for nearly 150 years.
>
> I have updated and changed the Polk County GenWeb Site. Please give me
> input and advice on what you would like to see and what would be
> helpful. We are always looking for people to help. The more volunteers
> the less of a work load and strain. At least consider it. One of the
> projects I will be starting is the compilation of cemetery records. I
> will be transcribing the Peoria, Graham, and Church of the Brethern
> cemeteries in Washington Township. If everyone on this list does one
> cemetery we might have the county covered.
>
> Whatever you enjoy, whatever you have an interest in, there is a place
> for you. And there is plenty of work to be done.
>
> Thanks for reading this. I hope you have not been offended by anything
I
> have written. If so, please aceept my apologies.
>
> Aaron Hill
> Seattle
>
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