Dear Listers, Mount Clemens Public Library and the Macomb County Genealogy Group are pleased to announce an update to the Macomb County Obituary Index. More than 15,000 new entries have been added to the index through the efforts of the following volunteers: Karen Brewer, Ann Faulkner, Jolyene Fisher, Mary Freer, Pat Hendrickson, Sue Hieber, Carolyn Horton, Audrey Morton, Herb Savage and Kay Shaw. The index now contains 151,602 entries. The Macomb County, Michigan Obituary Index has been created through the volunteer efforts of the Macomb County Genealogy Group. Entries range from 1880 to the present from many Macomb County newspapers, with complete coverage of the Mount Clemens papers from 1951 through August 2006. Visit the index at: http://offserv.libcoop.net/mtc/obitindex.asp Thanks to all of the volunteers whose efforts make this index possible! Happy hunting! Deborah Larsen Mount Clemens Public Library 150 Cass Avenue | Mount Clemens MI 48043 (586) 469-6200 www.libcoop.net/mountclemens

I'm not sure who this message should be addressed to, but it seems to me that many of the volunteers have been been doing extra work for no reason. There are a bunch of duplicate entries in the database. I put in a less common one of my surnames, Keidel, and out of 16 responses, four were duplicates: Keidel William Blay 84 DML 1961 MAY 29 Keidel William Blay 84 DML 1961 MAY 29 Keidel Earl F. Hart/Goldenbogen 61 MD 1969 MAY 21 Keidel Earl F Goldenbogen 61 MD 1969 MAY 21 Keidel Henry L. Blay/Hart b 1880 DML 1959 MAY 11 Keidel Henry L Blay/Hart 78 DML 1959 MAY 11 Keidel Jane 86 DL 1932 OCT 12 Keidel Jane 86 DL 1932 OCT 13 (could not find an obituary listed in the paper on this date) You may want to have your volunteers double-check the system, If an unusual name like Keidel can have four duplicates, what happens when a person enters a more common surname? a name like Miller or Smith can pull hundreds of records, and not only do we have to sort through them because it doesn't allow you to put in a first name with it (it always comes up as "No records returned. Try alternate spelling."), but we also have to sort through duplicate entries. It takes away the efficiency of trying to do a quick computer lookup. Please pass this message on to those in charge of the computerized database. I'm sure I speak for many who like to use your index, but find it hard to wade through so many results at times. Loraine DiCerbo French Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan Registrar Secretary -----Original Message----- From: larsend@libcoop.net To: MIMACOMB-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 1:54 PM Subject: [MIMACOMB] Macomb County Obituary Index update Dear Listers, Mount Clemens Public Library and the Macomb County Genealogy Group are pleased to announce an update to the Macomb County Obituary Index. More than 15,000 new entries have been added to the index through the efforts of the following volunteers: Karen Brewer, Ann Faulkner, Jolyene Fisher, Mary Freer, Pat Hendrickson, Sue Hieber, Carolyn Horton, Audrey Morton, Herb Savage and Kay Shaw. The index now contains 151,602 entries. The Macomb County, Michigan Obituary Index has been created through the volunteer efforts of the Macomb County Genealogy Group. Entries range from 1880 to the present from many Macomb County newspapers, with complete coverage of the Mount Clemens papers from 1951 through August 2006. Visit the index at: http://offserv.libcoop.net/mtc/obitindex.asp Thanks to all of the volunteers whose efforts make this index possible! Happy hunting! Deborah Larsen Mount Clemens Public Library 150 Cass Avenue | Mount Clemens MI 48043 (586) 469-6200 www.libcoop.net/mountclemens ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MIMACOMB-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail -- 2 GB of storage and industry-leading spam and email virus protection.