What do you do about local genealogical or historical societies getting
jealous of online indexes and information? I have been reluctant to post
too much (in certain counties) because of touchiness there at the local
societies. I really hate to sour those relationships. It seems like there
should be some mutual benefit there, but one society (in particular) seems
to be extremely defensive.
Kathy
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From: mngen-bounces(a)rootsweb.com [mailto:mngen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On
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Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 9:12 PM
To: mngen-l(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [MNGEN] I have to get info myself
I have found that waiting for someone else to get genealogy information
online is a long lonely wait. In the last 3 weeks, I have taken 2,600
digital photos of tombstones in the northern half of Chippewa County, MN.
It takes about 250 photos per hour. Some need to be retaken. Some need
manually reading then adding the information to the side of the tombstone in
the photos. I will continue taking pics until the snow falls. Then I am
spending the winter going through each photo, entering data in Excel, using
Excel to generate indexes and html coding.
MNGenWeb(a)aol.com
Mike Andrews, ASC