You are absolutely correct that the "Andrea Files" are a wonderful reference......also correct as to the amount of work it is to retypr them...... I did transcribe it for the COX family......two months of solid typing!!! :-) But well worth it all the same! :-) Good luck finding an easier solution. Pati 1/26/04 1:57:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > 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