Have you thought about getting them scanned, edited, and posted to the Guernsey County GenWeb site? If the articles can be scanned, the digital files can be sent to those willing to edit the OCR files, and send them to the website. I'd be willing to some editing. That is, of course, if the Coordinator is willing to accept them. Just a thot. Elizabeth At 5:52 PM -0500 6/12/08, lainee@earthlink.net wrote: >Elizabeth, > >You can't send attachments to RootsWeb lists. The only way to do >something like that is to transcribe it and send it as plain text. > >Lainee > >> [Original Message] >> From: Elizabeth Garland <ebarwick@hotmail.com> >> To: <ohguerns@rootsweb.com> >> Date: 6/12/2008 5:17:37 PM > > Subject: [OHGUERNS] Local Historical Sketches > >I have a subscription to NewspaperArchive.com and I have been doing >a lot of family research in the Cambridge Jeffersonian. During my >research, I found a collection of articles published in 1893/1894 >called "Local Historical Sketches, Miscellaneous Events from 1813 to >the Present." There are about 28 articles and they provide an >interesting view of the history of Guernsey County written from the >perspective of someone in 1893. Keep in mind that these are image >files and since the original was not in the best of shape, there are >some bits that are unreadable. The thing I like about them is that >they provide a view into daily life of the time that you can't find >in Census records or other official docs. I've attached a copy of >the first article and if there is interest I am happy to send more. > > >> Elizabeth Garland > > ebarwick@hotmail.com

I thought of that. Since they are already in electronic format, I could use an OCR on them but I can tell that I will have a great deal of trouble with it because the scanned image is not good at all. I fear that if I put them through an OCR, it will only recognize every 10th letter. That's how bad they are. Whoever scanned the original newspaper pages should be punished!!Eventually I will get around to it and then transcribing them but in the meantime, this is what we have to work with. Elizabeth> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:41:14 -0800> To: ohguerns@rootsweb.com> From: jpcook@ptialaska.net> CC: gccogs@verizon.net> Subject: Re: [OHGUERNS] Local Historical Sketches> > Have you thought about getting them scanned, edited, and posted to > the Guernsey County GenWeb site? If the articles can be scanned, the > digital files can be sent to those willing to edit the OCR files, and > send them to the website. I'd be willing to some editing. That is, > of course, if the Coordinator is willing to accept them. Just a thot.> Elizabeth> > At 5:52 PM -0500 6/12/08, lainee@earthlink.net wrote:> >Elizabeth,> >> >You can't send attachments to RootsWeb lists. The only way to do > >something like that is to transcribe it and send it as plain text.> >> >Lainee> >> >> [Original Message]> >> From: Elizabeth Garland <ebarwick@hotmail.com>> >> To: <ohguerns@rootsweb.com>> >> Date: 6/12/2008 5:17:37 PM> > > Subject: [OHGUERNS] Local Historical Sketches> >> >I have a subscription to NewspaperArchive.com and I have been doing > >a lot of family research in the Cambridge Jeffersonian. During my > >research, I found a collection of articles published in 1893/1894 > >called "Local Historical Sketches, Miscellaneous Events from 1813 to > >the Present." There are about 28 articles and they provide an > >interesting view of the history of Guernsey County written from the > >perspective of someone in 1893. Keep in mind that these are image > >files and since the original was not in the best of shape, there are > >some bits that are unreadable. The thing I like about them is that > >they provide a view into daily life of the time that you can't find > >in Census records or other official docs. I've attached a copy of > >the first article and if there is interest I am happy to send more.> > >> >> Elizabeth Garland> > > ebarwick@hotmail.com> > ==================> To review all messages sent to the mailing list, visit http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=ohguerns> -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHGUERNS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message