I suggest we go for it!! I work a lot of hours every week, but would volunteer to help transcribing or whatever.....keeping in mind that I'm computer stupid, I will do whatever I can. WH ---------- > From: Marti Graham <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [OKCREEK-L] Re: 1910 census additional information > Date: Saturday, August 22, 1998 9:31 PM > > Hi everyone - Linda is correct that the 1910 census is available at the OHS > and at various libraries -- but if we can gather the funds to pay for the > CD then we will have the 1910 Creek Co. census online -- no more trips to > the libraries, etc. - one click away and you will be able to check, > recheck for any family. True, most of us have copies of our immediate > family census information, but as we tie more families to ours we often > need to relook at the census. > > At the OHS copies of census pages are 50 cents, if you go there and make > them yourself. I don't have the time to make copies of that many pages. I > hardly have time for my own. :) Some of the film has been used so long > it's very hard to get good copies thus necessitating copying the same page > several times. > > It has taken several emails yesterday and today to get all the facts very > straight -- this is how I understand them -- > > We buy the CD from SK Publications for $160 [640 pages (estimated) at 25 > cents per page] note - price was revised. Once the CD is ordered [$100 > deposit required] SK Publications will order a new roll of microfilm from > the National Archives and begin scanning the pages on the CD. The CD is > scanned images of high quality xerox copies of the 1910 census pages. Once > that is completed and the balance is paid it is shipped and volunteers > take over transcribing the data. > > We as a group can transcribe the material ourselves or they will find > volunteers to transcribe the material. Software is provided free to > transcribes. After it is transcribed it will be kept in the USGenWeb > Archives [the archives has a search engine] and Creek Co. may link to the > text version and/or we may take a copy of the text version and recreate the > census in any format we choose. > > All of this will take approximately 2-3 months, mostly dependent upon how > many volunteers step forward to transcribe the material > > I personally think it's very worthwhile project. It may not immediately > benefit each of us, but other cousins, etc. that come behind us will > benefit. And isn't that what genealogy is all about, sharing with others. > I hope I've covered everything, if not feel free to ask. If I don't know > the answer, we'll find who does. > So... is this still workable? > > SK Publications - http://www.skpub.com/genie/ 'click on Census on CD' > > Here's where the link to the USGenWeb Cenus project where the copy will be > housed http://www.usgenweb.org/census/ > > Marti > > > I might be wrong, but I think I was told awhile back that the Oklahoma > > Historical Society has that year of the census. Or is the state > > archives a different place? What is the cost of the census, can we get > > it thru the National Archives? Lets check it out. I have ordered thru > > S&K, and there service is great. The only thing on the stuff that I > > ordered, I could have got copies at the Historical Library for just > > the cost of paper.