Hi, Wouldn't it be nice to have the Schutterzell and other Ortsfamilienbuecher published online on http://www.ortsfamilienbuecher.de? There are two OFB from Baden online now - only. It is great to have digital OFB online for searching. The website is part of http://www.genealogy.net, which is a joint project of the German genealogical societies. Regards, Renate

Hi Renate, maybe the reason why there are only 2 OFB online is the copyright. Another reason is that you must spend many hours with typing. Okay, you can use an OCR program but you still must compare the result. I couldn't spend this time because I am a volunteer for an US genealogical society. Wendelin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Renate Ell" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 2:47 PM Subject: Re: Re: [Ortenau] Schutterzell Ortssippenbuch > Hi, > > Wouldn't it be nice to have the Schutterzell and other > Ortsfamilienbuecher published online on > http://www.ortsfamilienbuecher.de? There are two OFB from Baden online > now - only. It is great to have digital OFB online for searching. The > website is part of http://www.genealogy.net, which is a joint project of > the German genealogical societies. > > Regards, > Renate

I'll add my guess to Wendelin's. Certainly there is a copyright obstacle but lack of business acumen would also be a major problem. With so many of the individual Ortssippenbuecher sold out and unavailable, someone with business knowledge should explain to Herr Siefert and the compilers/editors of those sold out books that additional funds could be obtained by taking one town or several nearby towns together (of those sold out books) and transferring the details to saleable CDRoms. I imagine that all the books were prepared originally with identified copyright restrictions and the denial of any right to transfer to CDRom or any other copying method. But when new family genealogists get involved in the hobby every day and a potentially desired product is out of print, the publishers should find a way to offer the information particularly as it would again start some royalties for the originators. New methods of publication are part of a trend of growth in publishing.....however, I doubt that on-line publishing of those books will ever become popular with the group who worked to put them together. We might discuss the potentials but unless Herr Siefert and his compilers/editors discuss those possibilities, nothing will happen. djweber [email protected] ---------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Renate Ell" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 7:47 AM Subject: Re: Re: [Ortenau] Schutterzell Ortssippenbuch > Hi, > > Wouldn't it be nice to have the Schutterzell and other Ortsfamilienbuecher > published online on http://www.ortsfamilienbuecher.de? There are two OFB > from Baden online now - only. It is great to have digital OFB online for > searching. The website is part of http://www.genealogy.net, which is a > joint project of the German genealogical societies. > > Regards, > Renate >