Thom Carlson wrote: > > Hello, Sue! I'm one of the directors of the Benton County Historical > Society, and have just accessed your webpage for the first time. > Outstanding job! <snip> > I hope that we will also be able to make more materials available to > you to put on the web. I have a scanner here at home that I'm just > learning to use, and am intending on getting some decent OCR software > for it soon. We have started the project of putting our cemetery files > into a computer database, and I may be able to send you those > files--there is here, however, a question of approval by the Board of > Directors, the issue being whether or not there should be a charge for > this material, given the massive amount of volunteer effort that went > into the original transcriptions and the subsequent effort of typing it > all into the database. <snip> > I look forward to working with you on this fine project. > Thom Carlson ========================= Hi Thom, Welcome! I agree with your opinion of Sue's work on the IAGenWeb Benton County site. She is doing a wonderful job! It's great when Historical and Genealogical Societies want to work with the USGenWeb Project. Cooperation can benefit both the researchers AND the societies. Most societies are seeing their membership increasing due to exposure on the various USGenWeb pages. Those societies that post surname indexes to some of their publications are particularly noticing increased sales in that area, as people are much more likely to purchase a volume when they know their surnames of interest are included. This list is fairly quiet most of the time, but many are working on various projects, like federal census trascriptions, to post at the Benton County site, so don't let the lack of e-mail lead you to believe there isn't interest! :-) Again, welcome, and we'll look forward to working with you as well. Pam timandpamwolf@pop.sfo.com