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From: "Darin Flansburg" <>
Subject: Re: [NYALBANY] Historical Societies Need Income
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 16:24:49 -0700


That is an excellant idea Ruth! I think the majority of the genealogists out
there are willing to pay money to keep the Historical Societies around
(afterall where would we be without them). But they should keep it
resonible enough for people with modest incomes, let's not turn this into a
rich man's (or woman's) hobby. By putting indexes on-line and keeping the
charges minimal they could even send scanned images or transcriptions at no
extra cost to them. This would lower their overhead and increase their
revenue. Plus I am willing to bet they would find a lot of volunteers to
transcribe and scan records which would reduce their work load.

Darin




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Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: [NYALBANY] Historical Societies Need Income


> Historical Societies might consider modernizing and get creative. Maybe
they
> could post the material on their own web site which is secure. Then, we
could
> pay maybe $10.00 for a one-time browse for however long we wanted to stay.
> Or, pay their dues fee to have access to the site for a year. Or, they
could
> do like the Preble County Ohio Library does - they have an index for
> obituaries which can be browsed freely. Then, I can send them a list of
the
> obits I want - they send the copies to me and charge me accordingly. Price
is
> reasonable - and I usually round up for a donation.
>
> Ruth (Schmitz) Cherecwich
>
> Researching: BOINK, BUCHANAN, CAULFIELD, CHERECWICH, GOULD, JUNGE, KAUS,
> KINKADE, KIRKWOOD, KOMNATZKY, SCHILLING, SCHMITZ, SCHULLER, STEWART,
TANGES
> (TOENGES), WILLIAMS
>

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