Is anyone interested in helping with the below project? Please DONT respond to me. RESPOND to jweintraub@fullerton.edu Thank you Deborah Byrd ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joel Weintraub" <jweintraub@fullerton.edu> To: <dbyrd@lightcom.net> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 9:05 AM Subject: Tampa help? > Deborah, > > I saw your name on the GenWeb site. > > You may be aware of our project to transcribe every street name within every > 1930 census district for cities of over 45,000 in 1930. If you are not > aware of the project or our website, please see the following website that > has over 200 cities: > http://home.pacbell.net/spmorse/census/ > > This system is a magnitude better in resolution than the NARA microfilm > locator website for the 1930 census. > > We have only 50 target cities left. About 1/2 of them are going to be > transcribed off of NARA film series M1931, which shows a cross table of > street addresses to census district numbers. Your city is one of our target > communities on M1931. I hope we can transcribe it by the end of the year, > but if I could get some help (a volunteer) to do the city, we could get the > file up on the website that much faster. > > I've scanned in all 99 pages of Tampa's M1931 descriptions, and can send > them as attachments to a volunteer. Although Tampa is in a soundexed state > (for 1930), it would still be very useful to have a street index for the > city. I anticipate that the project would take between 12 to 15 hours to > complete. > > If you know of someone who can take on this project for us, please inform > them of my request. > > Thanks in advance, > > Dr. Joel Weintraub, Dana Point, CA > >