Hi Vickie, The records here at our local funeral home were put into the computer by volunteers from the Genealogy Society. The books were not allowed to be taken from the building so the ladies would go there and inter the information into the computer and onto a disk. Maybe this can be done at Holdenville. Minnie Vickie Neill Taylor wrote: > > Hi List, > I had a very sad trip to Holdenville yesterday. I went over to the > funeral home to do a little research. It appears that all of the records > dating back before 1927, have pretty much been lost to time. The books are > still there, but they are in such poor shape that they wouldn't allow me to > use them. > I am trying to work out something with them to some how record the > information and at least save it to disks or something to keep the > information available for use. > If you have any ideas, please let me know. Rebinding the books would be > so expensive that it is kind of out of the question, there is a shelf full > of them. How can I help them to preserve the information in the books? I'm > certainly open to suggestion here. > With this in mind, your might want to consider speaking with your > neighboring funeral homes to see if the same fate might be about to happen. > Maybe this problem can be avoided to other records. > > Vickie Neill Taylor > flip@okplus.com > > ==== OKGEN Mailing List ==== > Oklahoma Vital Records Information - > http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/vital/vital.html > Oklahoma Census Records - > http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/census.htm