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Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 20:49:24 +0000
From: Linda Lewis <cityslic(a)ix.netcom.com>
Reply-To: STATE-COORD-L(a)rootsweb.com
To: STATE-COORD-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [STATE-COORD-L] CCHelper and Actual documents
Resent-Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 20:50:42 -0700 (PDT)
Resent-From: STATE-COORD-L(a)rootsweb.com
Please share with your county coordinators.
Sue Skay Abruscato, the MS file manager for the USGenWeb Archives, and
the Madison County MS county coordinator, has a wills and probate
project that combines CCHelper with the actual documents in the
Archives.
Sue said:
<snip>
http://www.rootsweb.com/~msmadiso/abstract/index.htm
I've created a searchable database using CCHelper. In the database
we've
abstracted the names and relationships from the will and probate records
that my husband has been transcribing and uploading to the archives.
His
goal is to transcribe all the wills in Will Book A which covers the
years
1827 to about 1892. Included along with the abstract is a link to the
full
transcription in the *archives*. So basically what I've accomplished
here
is create a project around documents in my county's archives. The
database
is searchable using the CCHelper features of indexing surnames,
registered
with Surname Helper and also searchable through the Archive search
engine.
Look at how many possibilities of someone finding this information has
been
covered here.
The main thing I find important here is that if I ever give this county
up,
my replacement may not want to continue adding to this database, or
might
want to get rid of it completely. The documents (and all my husband's
hard
work) is safely tucked away in the archives for anyone in the future to
use.
Have I taken anything away from my county pages? I think not! If
anything
it has enhanced them. All our visitors just love them. I've had many
of
them jump at the chance to add *their* wills to our collection in the
archives.
<snip>
County coordinators are encouraged to link directly to any or all files
in the ftp directory of their county:
ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ss/cc (ss = 2 letter state abbr., cc
= full name of county, all lowercase)
Or they can link to the html table of contents for their county:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ss/xxxxxxxx.xxx
Thanks,
Linda