----- Original Message ----- From: M. Daniels <margie@majorinternet.com> To: <ALDALE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 10:52 PM Subject: [DALELIST] go for it > You guys are not getting the picture here. > > When you touch them they crumble into little pieces in your hands. > It would be worth a try. Lord knows I was so upset I had to get myself > together. > > I know that there are products that could have been sprayed on them to > prevent this. > > I was in the Library in Geneva and they tried to refuse to let me even touch > their old papers. They said that they were falling apart WELL HELLO. I > asked WELLLL don't you think that a couple of cans of spray to prevent > further disintegration is in order here. They just looked at me like I > just stepped off the space ship. > > I say try it can't hurt. Good luck on just getting permission. > > Margie > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "dsaban" <dsaban@trib.com> > To: <ALDALE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 10:43 AM > Subject: Re: [DALELIST] Southern Star what years > > > > They could be scanned with a hand held scanner or a digital camera. > > The pages wouldn't even be touched. > > > > Mary and Don in Wyoming > > -----Original Message----- > > From: M. Daniels <margie@majorinternet.com> > > To: ALDALE-L@rootsweb.com <ALDALE-L@rootsweb.com> > > Date: Monday, August 21, 2000 7:45 AM > > Subject: [DALELIST] Southern Star what years > > > > > > >Cathy, > > > > > >There is absolutely no way these papers can be scanned. > > > > > >They crumble in your hands when you turn the pages. The papers were vrey > > >large in those days much wider than now. > > > > > >What I suggest is this. Take a tape recorder and dictate into it. Then > > >transcribe the info. that is if anyone has access to the papers. > > > > > >I am looking at my list of available micorfilm for Dale County and The > > >Southern Star starts Sept. 10, 1884. > > > > > >It does not show any papers for the war years. > > > > > >Does anyone know if they are available. > > > > > >Margie > > > > > > > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > >From: "Larry Van Cleave" <Lbvan@worldnet.att.net> > > >To: <ALDALE-L@rootsweb.com> > > >Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 6:51 AM > > >Subject: Re: [DALELIST] Southern Star > > > > > > > > >> Maybe it's time to see if someone can start a scanning project to get > > them > > >> recorded before they are dust. There is a wealth of information in the > > >> Southern Star about people in and around Dale Co. with the "Local > > >> Intelligence" columns. > > >> Cathy Van Cleave > > >> > > >> ----- Original Message ----- > > >> From: M. Daniels <margie@majorinternet.com> > > >> To: <ALDALE-L@rootsweb.com> > > >> Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 8:41 PM > > >> Subject: Re: [DALELIST] Southern Star > > >> > > >> > > >> > The original papers will be at the county court house. > > >> > > > >> > I visited the Bullock county court house, those papers are up on the > > >third > > >> > floor in a small storage room. Before long they will be dust! > > >> > > > >> > Margie > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > ----- Original Message ----- > > >> > From: "Larry Van Cleave" <Lbvan@worldnet.att.net> > > >> > To: <ALDALE-L@rootsweb.com> > > >> > Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 1:28 PM > > >> > Subject: Re: [DALELIST] Southern Star > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > Hi Christine, > > >> > > > > >> > > What I've been sending is from the microfilm I've ordered at AL > > >Archives > > >> > > through my local library. There are pages that are impossible to > > >read. > > >> I > > >> > > don't know if it's poor filming or really bad newspapers or both. > > >There > > >> > are > > >> > > notations on some of the microfilm pages that the newspaper is torn > > or > > >> > > mutilated. It would be nice if the originals could be scanned, > > >perhaps > > >> > that > > >> > > would provide better copies. I do not know who has original > > >newspapers. > > >> > > Haven't checked that out yet. The newspapers on microfilm page at > > the > > >> > > archives websight, http://www.archives.state.al.us/newsp/newsp.html > > >> > > has the list of what is available by county. > > >> > > > > >> > > Cathy Van Cleave > > >> > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > > > > > > > >==== ALDALE Mailing List ==== > > >Check out Barbour County web site and resources. Many were in Barbour > > prior to Dale being formed. > > > > > > > > > ==== ALDALE Mailing List ==== > > "Not for fame or reward, not for place or rank, not lured by ambition or > goaded by necessity; but in simple obedience to duty as they understood it; > these men suffered all, sacrificed all, dared all, - and died." > > --Rev. Dr. Randolph McKim (inscription on Confederate soldiers monument, > Arlington National Cemetery) > > > > > > > ==== ALDALE Mailing List ==== > Did your relative disappear during 1861-1865. Know he was enlisted but cannot find out about him. Check the POW records for union prisons. > >