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    1. Re: [BRE] A must read: Some who led; or, Fathers in the
    2. Wayne Webb
    3. Evening Merle, Yes many of us have our own personal copies of Some Who Led. As a general primer for the "biggies" in the church in its early days it is a handsome volume to have in your library. But for others, either too lazy to locate a copy or just wanting things for free with no effort, the book offered an opportunity on my part to aid history. A word of caution to those who have been or are using that set of pages. It is offered as is with no warranties. The images you see were generated from a PDF file that was exported to singular TIF images and then ported over, via JPG files, to a series of Internet pages. The original InDesign file that the PDF file was generated from went the way of the Dodo bird... now extinct. It, the InDesign file, got lost in the shuffle of a lost hard drive. You will notice that there are minor spelling errors through the series of pages. When porting the PDF file over to an Internet friendly set of images I was not going to redo the book as shown. It would have taken too much time on my part to retypeset it. Yes, it could have been OCRed but then you have to take the time to do that and then recreate the exact line, paragraph and page breaks. 'Tis not as simple as it sounds. I will not mention the hundred hours or so work on the photographs. 'Nuff said. The online version will, in it's second reincarnation, have the full list of keywords displayed in the box to the left of the image. I worked out the work flow with a group of very generous volunteers who were kind enough to work with me. When and if I get back to it the new material will be posted. Hopefully in the future the pages will be search engine capable. Funds and time is all that is required. It has been my hope to set up a German Baptist historical site online that would include Some Who Led as well as my other digital archives collection. This would not be limited to just Gospel Messengers, German Baptist History books, historically minded manuscripts and periodicals, but would also entail my extensive collection of court records. These records, while small in national import, do include two significant counties in German Baptist history... Montgomery county, Ohio and Bedford county, Pennsylvania. I have a sizeable collection of digitized estate records from Montgomery as well as marriages (1803-1844), and select dockets. Similar records to these are in my Bedford collection as well. It would be a paid site to fund my endeavors and further such projects. Now to answer your posed question. For select works, and this is purely my choice and for my edification, I have done the same with one or two other works. The reasons are various and are better eclipsed by my comments in the third sentence of the first paragraph. Wayne Webb ----- Original Message ----- > > This is interesting - but I already have "Some Who Led" - > > I tried to find a listing of available books on the site - and could not > > What books are available? Wayne, is this where your books are ending up? > > Merle C Rummel

    07/23/2008 04:42:00