So do they need volunteers to help type things in? Sandy P ----- Original Message ----- From: "Delilah" <diamond6468@mindspring.com> To: <pennsylvania@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 11:15 AM Subject: [PA] PA. Historical Society > SOURCE: Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter > ________________________________________________ > January 23, 2010 > > Pennsylvania Historical Society is Putting Documents and Photos on the Web > > The Pennsylvania Historical Society has about 21 million items in its > collection. Artifacts include photographs, personal diaries, war > correspondence, maps, and geological surveys. However it has nowhere near > enough resources to scan each one. > > Due to the sesquicentennial of the Civil War in 2011, the Society has > started hand-picking items that hint at the rest of the collection. > Archivist Kathleen Miller recently went through the papers of Andrew > Atkinson Humphreys, who not only was a major general in the Civil War, but > also a geologist and fought in the Seminole Native American war. > > The project is meant to encourage more people to use the collection. > Administrators at the Historical Society say about half of their visitors > are amateur genealogists looking up their family tree. > > You can learn more at http://www.hsp.org/ and especially at > http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=976. > > ********* > The official website for the PENNSYLVANIA list is: > http://midatlantic.rootsweb.ancestry.com/pa/ > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PENNSYLVANIA > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PENNSYLVANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message