Hello New England Researchers, Here is some progress on the NE books online effort. http://genweb.net/~blackwell/books.html --------------------------------------------------------------- News Item 1: Lisa Whiting has done a great job editing two sections of the online History of Hingham, published 1893. Specifically the Military and Education sections are now in HTML format and almost all of their OCR (Optical Character Recognition) errors are fixed. http://genweb.net/~blackwell/ma/hingham/Hingham1893.html There are still some unreadable parts on my xerox copy of the book that was the source of the scans. The G4 TIFF images of most of the 4 books are online and the raw, mostly unedited, OCR text files of the books are also online http://genweb.net/~blackwell/ma/hingham/ but have a multitude of OCR errors. ----------------------------------------------------------------- News Item 2: I am scanning and OCRing the History of Bristol County, pub.1883. It has good town histories and a couple good maps. I've done about a QUARTER of it. http://genweb.net/~blackwell/ma/bristol/b000toc.html and http://genweb.net/~blackwell/ma/bristol/ Take a LOOK, it is no where near done but it's "neat". These OCR text files are very readable. The county and town histories are very interesting Since I am scanning from the original book (not a xerox); it OCRs much better, but it takes a HUNDRED times longer to scan in a bound book on a flatbed scanner than to scan in a loose leaf xerox copy on the automatic feed scanner. I am also scanning at 300 dpi (dots per inch) so the small print OCRs much better. ------------------------------------------------------------------ I will not have time to do much more web stuff for a while. I have to work and enjoy the summer. Best Regards, David Blackwell - [email protected] 72 Center St. Groveland Mass. 01834 http://genweb.net/~blackwell/ PS take a look at http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa/ - This is a great online library 4000+ volumes PPS Putting New England books online will take a LONG time. I hope other New England researchers will each put a book online, or help others to do so. DCB