Thanks for sharing this Martha, This would be an excellent project for the proposed society! Tracy >From: Martha Marble <mmarble@erols.com> >To: NCLENOIR-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [NCLENOIR] [NC-PCFR] Picturing Pitt County - PERFECT PROJECT >Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 14:49:38 -0400 > >This is a perfect project for the new proposed Society - down the road. And >with the co-operation of Heritage Place. > > > > > >Resent-Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 12:37:55 -0600 > >X-Original-Sender: jtginnc@coxnc.rr.com Sun Apr 21 12:37:54 2002 > >From: "Janice Tripp Gurganus" <jtginnc@coxnc.rr.com> > >Old-To: <NC-PCFR-L@rootsweb.com> > >Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 14:38:03 -0400 > >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 > >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 > >Subject: [NC-PCFR] Picturing Pitt County > >To: NC-PCFR-L@rootsweb.com > >Resent-From: NC-PCFR-L@rootsweb.com > >Reply-To: NC-PCFR-L@rootsweb.com > >X-Mailing-List: <NC-PCFR-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/691 > >X-Loop: NC-PCFR-L@rootsweb.com > >Resent-Sender: NC-PCFR-L-request@rootsweb.com > > > >Dear PCFR Members and Friends, > > > >Here's a wonderful article about yesterday's photo-scanning event that >appeared in today's Daily Reflector. Wish I could send the photos, too. > > > >Eleanor, Wayne, Betsy, Brenda, Laymond, Robin, Roger, Frank, Bill, and >ALL >OTHERS who participated make us so proud. This was a huge success! Those >of us who couldn't be there (myself included) are very appreciative of your >time and effort on this worthwhile project. A big "THANK YOU" for making >us look so good!! > > > >Janice > > > >_________________________________________________ > > > > > >Effort preserves Pitt County images > >By T. Scott Batchelor, The Daily Reflector > >Crinkled, torn and faded images of Pitt County ancestors passed through a >beam of light Saturday that transformed them into ones and zeros, >preserving legacies for coming generations. > > > >People brought dozens of photographs of relatives and old homesteads to >Sheppard Memorial Library to have them scanned into a computer during an >effort called Picturing Pitt County. > > > >It was the first such session sponsored by Pitt County Family >Researchers, >a genealogical society dedicated to cataloging the family trees of Pitt >residents. > > > >Herman Allen showed up with several photos that were scanned onto a >computer hard drive and ultimately burned onto a CD-ROM to be used as >another resource for genealogists. > > > >In a 1915 snapshot, a line of relatives - including Allen's mother with >his then-baby brother cradled in her arms - posed in front of a house on >Hooker Road in Greenville. Behind the home stood rows of corn. > > > >"If something happens to them, they'll be preserved," Allen said of the >photographs being scanned into the system. > > > >Eleanor Allen, the PCFR member who headed up the effort to create the >database, said the photographs will be cataloged by family name and >geographic location so researchers can cross-reference them. > > > >She expects the CD-ROMs to be available in the next few months. The next >step is to place the images on the society's Web page, where some photos >already reside. > > > >Frank Clark brought a picture of his father, Warren Henry Clark, that was >snapped in 1898 in the Beaufort County town of Pantego. > > > >Clark, wearing a suit and cocked hat in the photo, came with his family >to >Pitt County in the 1920s in search of farming's greener pastures, his son >said. > > > >"I've been doing this now for 22 years," Clark, 68, said of his efforts >to >detail the family tree. "It's important to me because I wanted to teach >young people a little more about their family, their ancestors, where they >came from and what they look like." > > > >Those efforts, including preserving the images in a database, is >especially important for black families such as his, because records for >them are sparse, Clark said. > > > >An hour after the session began at 10 a.m., Eleanor Allen said volunteers >had helped scan about 30 photographs. > > > >Allen used a digital camera to photograph the photographs that couldn't >fit on the flat-bed scanner - a device that looks and operates like a >photocopier, but instead of spitting out paper copies sends the images onto >a computer's hard drive. The image on the camera was then uploaded to the >computer hard drive. > > > >She used that method for a wide picture of the 1914 graduating class of >East Carolina Teachers College. > > > >Besides serving as a centralized location for photo storage, the Saturday >session also bolstered the rolls of PCFR, organization President Bill >Kittrell said. > > > >"People have joined today," he said. Begun in 1994 with about 20 members, >the organization now boasts a roster of more than 250, with participants >hailing from as far away as California, Kittrell said. > > > >Electronically preserving the images of families and structures important >to Pitt County is a necessity because many of them would be lost otherwise, >he said. > > > >"Some of the family members don't care about old pictures," Kittrell >said. >"They get thrown away." > > > >Luckily, Ann Whitehurst Johnson had a copy of a photograph of her >grandparents that was damaged in a recent fire. > > > >That photo was being scanned into the database on Saturday, adding >another >layer of protection and making them available to those who want to become >acquainted with their ancestors. > > > >"It's just a wonderful way of being able to share with other people," >Johnson said. > > > >Eleanor Allen said she hopes to organize more scanning sessions and to >catalog other documents, such as family Bible records, using the same >technology. > > > >The Pitt County Family Researchers Web site is www.rootsweb.com/~ncpcfr/ > > > >T. Scott Batchelor can be contacted at sbatchelor@coxnews.com > > > > > > > >==== NC-PCFR Mailing List ==== > >Post to this mail list at: NC-PCFR-L@rootsweb.com > >Visit the PCFR website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpcfr > >Browse our rich collection of old family photographs, private documents, >and public records. > > > >============================== > >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx