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    1. Re: PABlair What Can We Do?
    2. David & Carol Eddleman
    3. This is exactly what Annie would have liked to hear! She gave her effort and money, but most of all she volunteered the information--all the information she could possibly find. She sent me boxes and boxes of things that noone wanted, but were full of information. She wanted that shared with all of you. So, for ten years I have been entering Pennsylvania information, even though I live in Ohio. Like you, she found time and energy to look up things for my ancestors and would remember them and send me tidbits. The thing she would like most for us to do, I believe, is gather what we do have that is not recorded digitally on the internet and work on that, as a group, to share with the world. One time we talked about eternity and we decided that it was giving all of these people whose names we were entering immortality, in a way, when we entered their names for searching online. Who knows how long this information will live in cyberspace? We both believed in free genealogy and donated our time to a number of different sources--all of which she approved of and worked at: Rootsweb: this list is hosted by Rootsweb and they do not charge anything for the service. I believe all the entries are archived at Rootsweb, also. Annie was also a Co-Coordinator for the Blair County, Pa. GenWeb site at http://www.rootsweb.com/~pablair/ I'm sure Steve Patz would appreciate listings of obits, if you submitted them to him. There are Archives at Rootsweb where many obituaries for Blair County are stored at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/blair/obits.htm I'm sure that Judy Banja, listmember, would be glad to help you post things there. GenExchange: this project is now defunct, but Annie was the state coordinator there and had entered nearly 100,000 records of all types for searching at the time of its demise. This is the project we first worked on together. PA-Roots: this project is the one I am most heavily involved in and it is a system that will search records throughout the entire state at one time, making it a very powerful search tool. Google also picks up our records and will include them on searches there. Blair County is here http://www.pa-roots.org/data/index.php?129 You can choose the OBITUARIES section and enter your obituaries yourself, one at a time, making them searchable to the entire community. I would be more than happy to show you how to do this. It takes only one try to see how simple it is. Or, I have a team of volunteers (passing it forward!) that help enter records and we would be happy to enter the obituaries for you there. We would even add Annie's name to the records, if you like. Keep in mind a couple of things...obituaries are copyrighted, so if they are "newer" (within the last 70 years or so), they cannot be entered verbatim online without permission of the newspaper. What I do with these is abstract them down to just bare facts. Carol C. Eddleman Bedford PAGenWeb http://www.pa-roots.com/~bedford/ Director, Data Acquisition, PA-Roots http://www.pa-roots.org/data/

    12/17/2007 04:35:43