A few years ago we started an IGP archives project in Ireland. Perhaps we can use part of that format to build our own TTTP archives. http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/index.htm Don -------Original Message------- From: Billie Walsh Date: 05/15/12 05:46:59 To: Trails To The Past Subject: [TTTP] Projects Aims to Build Online Hub for Archival Materials In death, as in life, people don't always leave their papers in order. Letters, manuscripts, and other pieces of evidence wind up scattered Among different archives, leading researchers on a paper chase as they Try to hunt down what they need for their work. "It can be hugely frustrating—especially when you make a journey Cross-country to an archive, and then discover the piece you really Wanted must be somewhere else (or, God forbid, rotting away in a Landfill)," says Robert Townsend, deputy director of the American Historical Association, in an e-mail interview. Chasing after Distributed historical records is so common that "any historian who has Not suffered from that problem can't be working very hard," he wrote. Read More: http://chronicle.com/article/Building-a-Digital-Map-of/131846/ -- “The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain The people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the Government lest it come to dominate our lives and interests”. - Patrick Henry - _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TTTP-request@rootsweb com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Did you read the article? When this is really going it is supposed that it will link all library collections. If you need a document for your research you go to this database and it tells you where every copy of that document is stored anywhere in the USofA. No more going to a library looking for a document only to find out it isn't available there. You can find only those libraries that have whatever your looking for. If there is no document [ landfill, courthouse burned and all records lost, etc. ] you will know that no one has it and to stop looking. You won't actually be able to read the documents from this site, only find out where it is [ if it is ]. On 05/15/2012 10:36 AM, donkelly wrote: > A few years ago we started an IGP archives project in Ireland. Perhaps we > can use part of that format to build our own TTTP archives. > > http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/index.htm > > Don > > > > -------Original Message------- > > From: Billie Walsh > Date: 05/15/12 05:46:59 > To: Trails To The Past > Subject: [TTTP] Projects Aims to Build Online Hub for Archival Materials > > In death, as in life, people don't always leave their papers in order. > Letters, manuscripts, and other pieces of evidence wind up scattered > Among different archives, leading researchers on a paper chase as they > Try to hunt down what they need for their work. > > "It can be hugely frustrating—especially when you make a journey > Cross-country to an archive, and then discover the piece you really > Wanted must be somewhere else (or, God forbid, rotting away in a > Landfill)," says Robert Townsend, deputy director of the American > Historical Association, in an e-mail interview. Chasing after > Distributed historical records is so common that "any historian who has > Not suffered from that problem can't be working very hard," he wrote. > > Read More: http://chronicle.com/article/Building-a-Digital-Map-of/131846/ > -- “The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government lest it come to dominate our lives and interests”. - Patrick Henry - _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._

This a what genealogist and students and all need.  Thanks for sharing Jeannie in KY From: Billie Walsh <bilwalsh@swbell.net> To: tttp@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 12:39 PM Subject: Re: [TTTP] Projects Aims to Build Online Hub for Archival Materials Did you read the article? When this is really going it is supposed that it will link all library collections. If you need a document for your research you go to this database and it tells you where every copy of that document is stored anywhere in the USofA. No more going to a library looking for a document only to find out it isn't available there. You can find only those libraries that have whatever your looking for. If there is no document [ landfill, courthouse burned and all records lost, etc. ] you will know that no one has it and to stop looking. You won't actually be able to read the documents from this site, only find out where it is [ if it is ]. On 05/15/2012 10:36 AM, donkelly wrote: > A few years ago we started an IGP archives project in Ireland. Perhaps we > can use part of that format to build our own TTTP archives. > > http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/index.htm > > Don > > > > -------Original Message------- > > From: Billie Walsh > Date: 05/15/12 05:46:59 > To: Trails To The Past > Subject: [TTTP] Projects Aims to Build Online Hub for Archival Materials > > In death, as in life, people don't always leave their papers in order. > Letters, manuscripts, and other pieces of evidence wind up scattered > Among different archives, leading researchers on a paper chase as they > Try to hunt down what they need for their work. > > "It can be hugely frustrating—especially when you make a journey > Cross-country to an archive, and then discover the piece you really > Wanted must be somewhere else (or, God forbid, rotting away in a > Landfill)," says Robert Townsend, deputy director of the American > Historical Association, in an e-mail interview. Chasing after > Distributed historical records is so common that "any historian who has > Not suffered from that problem can't be working very hard," he wrote. > > Read More: http://chronicle.com/article/Building-a-Digital-Map-of/131846/ > -- “The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the  people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government lest it come to dominate our lives and interests”. - Patrick  Henry - _ _...  ..._ _ _._  ._  .....  ._..  ...  .._ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TTTP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message