About 20 years ago I found an excellent resource for MILLERs [and any other family] that came thru South Carolina on their way west or who settled in SC. This resource is called the "Andrea Files". Leonardo Andrea was a professional genealogist of the 1940 time frame. When he died his lovely daughter donated those files to the world to be microfilmed and placed into selected libraries. If you can find these files you will find a gold mine in research already done for you. There is just no way I could describe adequately the value of these files, way beyond my word power to explain. I have the complete MILLER sections of these files. They are waaaay to volumionus [more than an inch thick file in a 3 ring binder] to retype [certainly not by me as hunt and peck] and enter on the internet but I have scanned two pages to show you the valuable type information that is available in these files IN AN ATTEMPT TO INTEREST YOU INTO HELPING ME find an OCR [Optical Character Recognition]! program that will work with my scanner or any scanner to read and copy these files without so many mistakes. You will se that there are many mistakes in this one page. But how valuable it would be to researchers to have these available on line in readable condition. This if translated into internet language on the web would be the best resource for genealogists that I can imagine. I can scan it easily into a picture but that won't do. It must be brought into MSWORD or MSWORKS or some other word processor so that searches can be done on a series of pages. That is the tricky part. So does anyone have an OCR program that will read and decipher the old pica [or whatever that is below] trypewriter writing???? Or does anyone have one of those voice to type programs that really works so that you can read the file into it and it types what you spoke? Miller in Switzerland. {meaning those coming from Switzerland} 7 28 11—16 The French are enlisting settlers for the Mississippi Territory...some are criminals and others volunteers...Some were kid.napped. 18 Sept. 1720 a swiss vs. French dispute over DANIEL MILLER or MULLER a citizen of Stefflsburg while he was working in Neuchatel with his two minor sons were or was enticed. by the French to Valangin and there he was dragged away to service in Mississippi with his two SOrtS both under age of 21. . .The last heard of them they were in Louisiana. . . . The Swi as Govt. appealed to the French to return the Millers...The French replied that DANIEL MILLER and his eons went without force and. did. not want to return to Switzerland...They were Catholics and were happy in Louisiana and were now oitizens....Baok and. forth went the arguments and Prance won out....Andrea. 29 II~198...1,5 ~ay 1773 CHRISTIAN MULLER, a wheelright of Zyphen and he was induced. I to emigrate by the good reports of his brother Martin who had. gone to America some time about 1667...His wife and only child, a son, refused to go with him to America and the Govt. ordered that Christian Huller be not allowed to take out of Switzerland mo~re than one—third of his money and. none of his property... Christian went without his wife and. eon. 30 ii~i68 JOHANNES TSCHUDI, a carpenter and eon cfJohannes Tsohud.y Sr. of ?renkendort.. .with his wife, ELIZABETH MULLER who wag bapt. 213 Oat. 1730, were allowed to leave Switzerland. to emigrate to Pennsylvania. 31 II~l911 HANS JOGGI DURRZNBERGER, a brick ~aeon and hi s wife, ELSBETR MULLER and their son, Hans enreioh Durrenberger bapt. Jan.1769...They left to go to Aaeriba...Spent all their money and returned...Now prefer begging to working. 32 I1—28...Por Citpoljna,,~~ 9 Mar, 174~3 Emigration taxes paid. by Interlaken HANS MULLERII..$O ~.a on ~ney taken with him of 500_ La Peter Roth...beoame Rhoacte in S.C...Andrea Peter in Abenit...Beoame in Carolina Inabine~....Andrea Waithard Xauftxnan,..baoame Walter Caughman in 6.C....And.rea. MA~C OTHERS in the listand. 111 brought families. 11-89 Left from Zurioh...A colony of 300 persons gathered in October 1733 and arrived in Carolina in 173~4~ and 1735 under Mr. Pury.... (Settled. in Purysburg Township. .Andx~ea* JACOB MULLER, informator,,also as hans Jacob Catherine Elisabeth Weitnauer, his wife. Children Ester Muller bapt. 26 Apr. 1729 Ludwig Frederick MuUer bapt. 21 Oct. 1732 A child. born just as they left, .name not listed. He left to emigrate but while at Basel, he was unable to sustain himself and. provide for his pregnant wit e...Ite did not sail then but since he was not heard from later in Switzerland it is su~poaed he left later from France for Beech Island in S.C....He had money Th.tt the Swiss Govt. took his money and the money of seven other families because the Govt. had not given them any permission to emigrate..... The Swi~ about thi3 time -isre putting in Jail abi. who tried to le~ [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] next page is from sec IV I made corrections down to Crosby W. MILLER below that you can see what problems tha OCR had: Miller IV And erson Co. 105 History of Pendleton...pg. 138 Dr. Henry C. MILLER married CAROLINE VIRGINIA TALIAFEBRO and. they had. the following children,. Henry C. Miller Jr...Killed in Battle CSA Ressie E. Miller m. Mr. J.N. Hook...no issue Caroline Virginia Miller m. W.W. Simmons George W. Killer m. Edith E. Walker See # s 45. & 91—m GEORGE W. MILLER and. his wife, Edith E. Walker Miller had. the following children Harry Pinckney Miller in. Lillian Hallwood of Ohio Percy Walker Miller a. Marion Harston ,f N.Y. Dorothy Modd. Miller.. Single..in,1890 when the book }(attie Porter. Miller .. was written Caroline T. Miller m. Edgar H. Morton of Ga. Edith W. Killer. Beatrice Miller Henry 0ampbell Miller Last three were single in 1890 106 Simpson..History of Pendleton pg. 156 JOHN MILLER, commonly called Printer John Miller, was born in London and was the printer of the famous JUNIUS LETTERS for which he was tried but acquitted. . .Disgusted with this he came to Philadelphia Pa. in 1782....The S.C. Delegation to the Con-V gress induced him to come to Charleston S.C. where he was printer for the state of 5.C,..In 1785 he removed to Pendleton where be took a grant of 649a of land. on 18 mile Creek...He moved. to Pendleton and. began publishing the Pendleton Messenger.. .He died. in Pendleton in 1809 and was buried at the old Stone Church. ..He left ____ sons. John Miller, , also a printer Crosby W. Miller who married a Miss Hammond. JOHN MULBR Jr. married and. left FIVE sons and FIVE daughters. John Miller The other 4 sons moved. west. Jane Miller Charlotte ~ay Mrs. Riohard.Wileon Mrs.. James Duke...see #91-h Mrs. Elizabeth Sharp. Hayne. Mrs. Sharp was the mother of ~LAM SHARP who wed, a daughter of Gov. 107 Anderson...WPA copy See #106 JOHN MILLER, prlnter...Hia will eg.. 111. k~ay 1807 pr. 1+ Jan. 1808...No wife is lieted...Children John Miller & Ex. . . Oro aby Wilka Mill r & ~ William Miller Elizabeth Miller Also a full share to my grand. daughter, MARY ANN HU8TON. Also extra Ex. to be Ccl. John B. Earle. /Wit. William Robertson, Jams a Woo&& Joseph-B’. Earle.’’. - . Comment The book titJ3ed, MTLI~R~..OALHOUN gives seas data on this family. 108 Son. of Printer John JOHN }IILLER...Hia will eg. 17 Aug. ‘1826 pr. 6 Nov. 1826 (See f~X #91—e)...Wife, Jane Kiflar...Chilclren Charles Miller ,& ,Ex. Joseph Miller James Miller William Miller George Miller The 2000a to the four sons, Joseph, William, James & George. My married daughter My four single daughters TO ALL 07 MY DEAR CHILDREN to whom I gave NOTHING, I wish to express to them my affectionate regxea and regret that I em not able to leave them legacies worthy of such affst~tInn~t~ nhi1d~’s~n So can you help us help ourselves? Are you an expert on OCR or scanning in stuff? Do you have or know of an OCR that will work better than mine? Are you an expert typist and want to donate your time to type this stuff and make it available to all? What can you do? Charles

Charles, I have seen scanned pages that have been put up on family sites, without the "rolling text". I am not sure that is exactly what you have in mind, but it is what major libraries use, and I don't know how they do it. Cornell doesn't have the resources to correct the text and just leaves it to the users as does the Michigan Making of America Site. Not having the rolling text means that one would mean that one would just have to do a lot of reading. But often lines stop just shy of the generation being searched for and IT IS nessery to read reports. A major benefit of the scanned immages is that one can see exactly what was on the page, and not trust that the typist didn't understand what was typed. I don't believe anything has been developed to read hand writing. A drawback is not getting stuck in the belief that any report is gospel. Do watch out for copyright infringement. A work done in 1940 and released by the family may have a valid copyright on the work, and it is possible it was passed on to the institution how owns the collation. If you had to sign a request to get the research, you may of said you would not sell or publish it further, and a list of other clauses which are easy to overlook in our hurry to share. Not having a scanner, I have done my share of typing including having to write for releases. Betty Kinzie (des. of the John Sanford - Sarah Miller family) Charles wrote at the tale end of the post: So can you help us help ourselves? Are you an expert on OCR or scanning in stuff? Do you have or know of an OCR that will work better than mine? Are you an expert typist and want to donate your time to type this stuff and make it available to all? What can you do? Charles