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like i dont have enough to do
if you want you someone to be recorded in what promises to a extraordinary
archive and museum he is what i would like you to do.i understand this will
probably swamp me. but so what.i do already have some of this but why would
that stop me now. send me an obit with a picture of the person or persons
mentioned and a picture of their grave stone.
this site covers the tri town area of chelsea revereand winthrop ma and the
names dever denning and cogan anywhere
please email them to MaChelseaGroup(a)aol.com or i guess you could send me
them by snail mail
this way i can enter the family and pictures and grave stone linked together
for easy access
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In a message dated 9/10/2005 4:20:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
bdgeorge(a)ktc.com writes:
> The following was announced recently about the plans which the
> organization has developed about the hundreds of thousands of
> documents and microfilm reels housed in the Church of Jesus Christ of
> Latter-day Saints' huge vault in the side of a mountain:
>
>
> Deseret Morning News, Friday, September 09, 2005
>
> LDS to put microfilm in vaults on Internet
>
> Huge effort planned to index family history data
>
> By <http://deseretnews.com/dn/staff/card/1,1228,103,00.html>Carrie A. Moore
> Deseret Morning News 9 Sept 2005
>
> Ever wonder what's inside those secured vaults, owned by the LDS
> Church, positioned high inside the granite walls of Little Cottonwood
> Canyon?
>
> The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is working toward
> allowing anyone with Internet access to learn more than they've ever
> known before about the information contained on 2 million-plus rolls
> of microfilm housed there. Currently, the church is compiling
> searchable indexes to that information and will eventually make it
> available for free through an automated database on the Internet.
>
> The church excavated the vaults containing those records on property
> it purchased in the 1960s, providing a safe repository during the
> height of the Cold War for birth, marriage, death and census
> information it considers essential for the salvation of mankind after
> death. Now church leaders seek to make the information more readily
> available to the world.
>
> "The goal is to create (Internet-accessible) indexes to all the films
> we have in the vault. That's a long-term process and that's a lot of
> films," according to Paul Nauta, manager of public affairs for
> church's <http://FamilySearch.org>FamilySearch.org Web site. "We've
> not announced when people will begin to start seeing" the indexes.
>
> Those attending the annual Federation of Genealogical Societies'
> conference this week at the Salt Palace will get a "sneak preview" of
> the church's plans. As the project progresses over time, indexes to
> records from 110 nations previously stored on microfilm will become
> accessible to virtually anyone,
>
> anywhere, through the Internet via the touch of a few keystrokes.
>
> "We're showing people how we'll be creating indexes from those films.
> Sometime in the future we'll ask people to help us create the indexes
> and make them publicly available, and little by little we'll start to
> index the films from the vault like we did with the 1880 (U.S.)
> Census.
>
> "The challenge now is it takes a lot of people and a lot of time" to
> create such an index. "Currently, you have to look at images on paper
> or burn them on a CD and distribute those to index the data. We're
> moving the whole process to the Internet and this is a prototype of
> what that might look like. . . . That's what the biggest buzz is at
> the conference."
>
> Conference attendees are using a lab at the Salt Palace equipped with
> a number of computers to demonstrate the new automated database. The
> microfilm information includes birth, marriage, death and census
> records.
>
> New advances in indexing software utilities and applications mean the
> LDS Church "now has the ability to produce lots of indexes faster,"
> than it did with previous databases it has digitized, including the
> 1880 U.S. Census. Making that database available online was a 12-year
> project, using tens of thousands of volunteers.
>
> In the future, the new technology "will provide automated indexing"
> for an ever-increasing number of microfilms "so people can readily
> search it from their homes."
>
> As the number of family history researchers continues to grow - one
> study showed 40 percent of Americans have done research on their
> family history and another said 90 percent have expressed interest -
> demand for online indexes that simplify searching for ancestors has
> soared, he said.
>
> How much time will it take to digitize all the films in the vault?
>
> "Let's put it this way, it will depend on how much volunteer help we
> get," Nauta said. "I think we can digitize the films to be indexed to
> stay up with demand, but much will depend on how many volunteers we
> can generate worldwide to index their records of interest. If, in a
> couple of years, we could get a million indexers worldwide, we could
> put a big dent" in the massive undertaking.
>
> The indexing demonstration and other planned improvements to the
> popular <http://FamilySearch.org>FamilySearch.org Web site are
> drawing standing-room-only crowds at the convention. The changes
> "will make great strides to simplify and increase the success of the
> family history experience," he said.
>
> Just when the first indexed information from the microfilms will
> become available online has not yet been announced. "We don't want to
> be swamped with people before we're ready to handle it," Nauta said.
>
> The new developments won't make more than 5,000 small family history
> centers housed in LDS chapels worldwide obsolete. Previously, those
> looking for information contained on the microfilms stored in the
> church's Granite Mountain Records Vault had to request that copies of
> information on the films be sent to their local center. At some point
> in the future, that likely won't be necessary any longer, he said,
> but "that will continue to be a role for a long time.
>
> "Family history centers will continue to be a mainstay" for accessing
> information on the microfilms for some time to come.
>
> As more of those records become digitized and indexes become
> available, the role of the local centers, he said, "will probably
> change. Some people have no Internet access, and they'll use them for
> that. The role of the family history centers will evolve over time to
> help people get started" with their research because "many people
> don't know how to do that. They will become more fundamental to help
> people get and stay organized, and to answer questions they have
> doing their research."
>
> Many of those in town to attend the conference are also making use of
> the church's renowned Family History Library, less than a block from
> the Salt Palace. Hours have been extended to accommodate guests, with
> the library open from 8 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. through Saturday.
>
> "It's an exciting time for family history," Nauta said. "Those just
> developing this kind of research as a hobby will never have any
> appreciation for how far this industry has evolved, even in the past
> 10 years."
>
>
>
Jim Denning -Ygenealogist-MTgenealogist
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Chelsea,Ma.-Woburn,Ma.-denning-dennen-danin-dinan-dinihey-denningston-dinning-
carlon-carroll-dever-cogan-malone-heslin-piscopo-mazzola-martini-farrell-mchug
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