Greetings, I am sending this to the Maine lists I belong to. I hope someone who is really "in the know" will have an answer or a good idea. There is something I have long thought about wanting to do, and it may or may not be utterly crazy. Or, maybe it has already been done. Or, maybe it shouldn't be done at all. So here it is: I would like to be part of transcribing the 1850 census for the State of Maine so that it would be online. I would like to do it at my own pace, with no pressure, as my plate is so full now I feel like I never finish anything. So why would I want to add one more thing? Well, believe it or not, I know that this type of word processing would replace tv-viewing or the like as something that would give me pleasure. How would anyone go about doing this? Has it been done... half-done ... attempted... started?? I welcome knowledgeable answers but if you're only guessing, please respond privately so we don't bother anyone on the lists. Donna Donna Tyler Cummings School of Business University of Southern Maine donnac@usm.maine.edu Voice 207 780-4032 Fax 207 780-4662 **************************** ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This sound somewhat like what Ray Sears <lrsears@capecod.net> is trying to do. Someone has to find and buy a printed copy of whatever you want to digitize. Then his procedure (just getting started) is to scan pages, OCR the scanned pages, send the OCR'd page(s) to volunteers for proof-reading and making best possible accurate file from the copy. Some obvious complications are the relative skills of various volunteers, their time commitments, aggrement on a single computer format for output, etc. If you get something like this started, count me in! Stewart Rowe Donna Gene Tyler Cummings wrote: > > Greetings, > I am sending this to the Maine lists I belong to. I hope someone > who is really "in the know" will have an answer or a good idea. > > There is something I have long thought about wanting to do, and it > may or may not be utterly crazy. Or, maybe it has already been > done. Or, maybe it shouldn't be done at all. So here it is: I would > like to be part of transcribing the 1850 census for the State of > Maine so that it would be online. I would like to do it at my own > pace, with no pressure, as my plate is so full now I feel like I never > finish anything. So why would I want to add one more thing? Well, > believe it or not, I know that this type of word processing would > replace tv-viewing or the like as something that would give me > pleasure. How would anyone go about doing this? Has it been > done... half-done ... attempted... started?? I welcome > knowledgeable answers but if you're only guessing, please respond > privately so we don't bother anyone on the lists. > > Donna > Donna Tyler Cummings > School of Business > University of Southern Maine > donnac@usm.maine.edu > Voice 207 780-4032 > Fax 207 780-4662 > **************************** > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------EEDACB7C2A698B1C0A947760 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There is an effort by RootsWeb and I think the URL is: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgw/census/info/ All the info is there. How to get the census, the best way to view it and transcription info. Good luck, a noble effort! Ruth Stewart Rowe wrote: > This sound somewhat like what Ray Sears <lrsears@capecod.net> is trying > to do. Someone has to find and buy a printed copy of whatever you want > to digitize. Then his procedure (just getting started) is to scan > pages, OCR the scanned pages, send the OCR'd page(s) to volunteers for > proof-reading and making best possible accurate file from the copy. > > Some obvious complications are the relative skills of various > volunteers, their time commitments, aggrement on a single computer > format for output, etc. > > If you get something like this started, count me in! > > Stewart Rowe > > Donna Gene Tyler Cummings wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > I am sending this to the Maine lists I belong to. I hope someone > > who is really "in the know" will have an answer or a good idea. > > > > There is something I have long thought about wanting to do, and it > > may or may not be utterly crazy. Or, maybe it has already been > > done. Or, maybe it shouldn't be done at all. So here it is: I would > > like to be part of transcribing the 1850 census for the State of > > Maine so that it would be online. I would like to do it at my own > > pace, with no pressure, as my plate is so full now I feel like I never > > finish anything. So why would I want to add one more thing? Well, > > believe it or not, I know that this type of word processing would > > replace tv-viewing or the like as something that would give me > > pleasure. How would anyone go about doing this? Has it been > > done... half-done ... attempted... started?? I welcome > > knowledgeable answers but if you're only guessing, please respond > > privately so we don't bother anyone on the lists. > > > > Donna > > Donna Tyler Cummings > > School of Business > > University of Southern Maine > > donnac@usm.maine.edu > > Voice 207 780-4032 > > Fax 207 780-4662 > > **************************** > > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > ============================== > > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ --------------EEDACB7C2A698B1C0A947760 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="lewin.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Ruth Lewin Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="lewin.vcf" begin:vcard n:Lewin;Ruth x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:lewin@mediaone.net x-mozilla-cpt:;-11216 fn:Ruth Lewin end:vcard --------------EEDACB7C2A698B1C0A947760--