Another suggestion; I would be willing to do transcription and data entries if they would let us volunteer and provide us the necessary resources. Dave On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 10:51:22 +1100 Maryanne Lawrie <m.lawrie@walter.net.au> writes: > If you look at the IGI's on LDS web page these have been inputed by > volunteers for the Scottish and English births, marriages, etc it > shows the > name of the person, date, batch no, the film no and serial number > etc. > Maybe it would be a good idea to speak to Thomas Edlund to see how > we could > get this up for Croatia as well. It would probably take a long time > with > volunteers reading film especially if they are not familiar with > latin or > the names themselves. > > mary > > -----Original Message----- > From: SHAWN FOGARTY [mailto:fogdryer@msn.com] > Sent: Tuesday, 5 March 2002 10:51 AM > To: CROATIA-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [CROATIA-L] Edlund on Croatia: a modest proposal > > > I agree................. > > > shawn > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: DAVID N MOTHKOVICH > Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 5:20 PM > To: CROATIA-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [CROATIA-L] Edlund on Croatia: a modest proposal > > Let me put my 2 cents in on this. > I think it would be most practical to get them to make the Marriage > Birth > and death records for the 19th century on line, much as the > Ellisislandrecords are. Most of Croatia is Catholic, and most of > these > are microfilmed. It would give the greatest possibility of finding > your > immigrant ancestor... even non-catholics would most likely find an > ancestor, since grandparent, uncle etc., would probably be > Catholic. > Just a thought. > Dave M. > >