Hello all, A few weeks ago I asked on this list for volunteer help to OCR a couple of typewritten documents, for placing as files on my website, here follows a report on the process and results: Two of this list's members, Flora MacDonald and Robin McLeod leapt in. I mailed them both photocoppies of the photocoppies sent to me by Kate Ferris on Lewis. The one document, "TANERA ISLAND", was delegated to Flora, it was her first attempt at OCRing, and luckily it was fairly crisp and clean. Flora did a great job, and the file is now on my website, follow the link at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~coigach The second document, "COIGACH", was much more fuzzy and blotchy, and two people who had seen it thought it was beyond hope for OCRing. Robin came through though! I suspect she hand transcribed some sections, and she says she used her spellcheck as a tool to help eliminate some of the static. Others deserve credit of course, Willy Muir and Alexander MacLeod were the original authors, Ann Urquhart brought them into the museum at Ullapool, Greg Wighton in Tasmania though about to leave on holiday gave technical advice, and Kate Ferris with her husband David did proofreading. Probably others also deserve credit, and I hope I think of them all before hitting the "send" key! Both documents are fascinating reading, the Tanera one giving personal insights into late 19th century, early 20th, society of a small Highland community. The Coigach, or "Mitford manuscript", mostly deals with the late 18th century, it includes mention of the 11 Coigach familys who left on the Hector in 1773. Thought you might enjoy the following genesis of a webfile, Thanks again everyone! Donald. One of the pages had been missed in the original photocopying, Kate contacted Ann, who coppied and mailed it to her. The process of getting that one page onto the web is interesting; 1) Kate phoned Ann in Ullapool. 2) Ann Searched for the page, photocoppied it, and postal mailed to Kate. 3) Kate scanned and emailed me the page. 4) I then emailed that file to Greg Wighton in Tasmania, for his advice and possible help (Greg has OCRed stuff for me in the past, but because of holidays could only give overview and tech advice this time.) 5) Greg could not get his program to read the file. So he printed out the jpg file, scanned it, then OCRed it. 6) Greg emailed me the ascii file. 7) I printed out the ascii file. 8) I then photocoppied the printout, along with photocoppies of the rest of the photocoppies sent by Kate. 9) All the photocoppies were then included it in a mailout to Flora MacDonald in Ontario. 10) Flora scanned and OCRed the pages, including the printout. 11) Flora then emailed me the result as an ascii file. 12) I then made an HTML file of the ascii, and uploaded it to Rootsweb Freepages. 13) After the several people involved including Kate and her husband David looked it over I made several edits.