Could you supply a mailing address? Some of us could send a donation to assist this wonderful project...... Jeanne Orange County On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 10:10 AM, Judie Cook wrote: > Dear Listers, > > > > This is a note to bring you up to date on the pre-1905 CADI project, > which we call the Phoenix Project. Yes, we are still here, and yes, we > know there have been a lot of questions. And so I will attempt to > answer some of them . > > Nothing much has been done on the site since last February. Our > web-master became ill, and has not been able to work on it. However, > during that time, Elvina, Betty and I have NOT been idle. Betty is the > CHIEF PROOFER and has taken on the job of re-proofing every single file > already on line, those that were being held to go online, and those > that > we are working on right now. Elvina is in charge of doing the drudge > work of copying the films and making master copies.at least 3,000 pages > so far just on Sacramento County alone!!! Elvina mails me the masters, > I > make a second copy to send to our dear transcribers, and send them out. > > A word about the transcribers: they are the most wonderful group of > people I have ever had the pleasure of working with. They BEG for > work!! > And, they are so good and so fast. I really have to scramble to keep up > with them You have them to thank for all of the records we will be > putting online very soon. There are many, but I want to give special > thanks to Justina Cook, Bill Norin, Alma Stone, Lorraine Works, and the > incredible sisters, Sue Wood and Pat Seabolt.!! (a round of applause > please!!) A special thanks to Tim Purdy. Tim donated his work, > compiling > death records from the Lassen Advocate from 1869-1904 and beyond. > > Within the next week, you should be seeing some amazing things > happening > on the site. Our new "web-mistress" is Sharon Dulcich and her work is > really "uptown". We are very excited and can hardly wait for the "grand > opening".Sharon and Elvina are working their fingers to the bone while > Betty continues to provide them with PROOFED files. Meanwhile, my group > is hard at work on Sacramento County Death Certificates.Sue and Pat are > each working on 200 pages right now. > > None of this comes free of course. Thousands of hours of drudge work > and > a considerable amount of dollars have been spent just on postage alone. > If you feel compelled to donated some funds, we will gladly accept . We > will continue to build this project until we have transcribed death > records for every county possible. Regrettably there are some counties > who did not keep records, but we will search for other sources. Perhaps > there will be others like Tim, who will be willing to share their work > so that everyone can benefit from it. > > We look forward to having you visit us. Stay tuned and happy hunting. > > > > Judie > > > > Judie Barber Cook > > Project Coordinator > > California Pre-1905 Death Index > > www.rootsweb.com/~cabf1905 > > > > > > ==== SOCAL Mailing List ==== > Contact Yvonne Bowers, Listmom <[email protected]> >