Longview Public Library (Gregg County Library) sent theirs in a couple of weeks ago. It is indeed a wonderful thing. Elaine M On 10/23/2013 3:40 PM, Suzie Henderson wrote: > We have had MANY Fannin County Yearbook scanned by this program and have > been 110% satisfied. The quality has been excellent and the turnaround > rapid. I can't say enough nice things. > > I have posted the Windom yearbooks to my site (with transcription) but the > Honey Grove Preservation League has posted many more Honey Grove and Windom > yearbooks (without transcription) by just uploading them to Flickr (a > Terabyte for FREE) and then linking to the slide show. Other than upload > time, she has had little or no work to do to get the yearbooks available to > her site visitors. > > 1949 Sample yearbook: TXFannin GenWeb > http://www.txfannin.org/yearbooks.php?school=105&year=1949&page=6#date > > 1943 Sample yearbook: Honey Grove Preservation League > http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/sets/72157634226733025/ > > Suzie > TXFannin > > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Sue Tackel<[email protected]>wrote: > >> Thought someone might be interested in this project. >> The Jack County Public Library in Jacksboro boxed up all of the >> county's >> school yearbooks and sent them to the Oklahoma Prison System to be scanned >> and put on DVDs. The scans are big, good images. This is a free 'School >> Yearbook Digitation Project' in OK, but they also do lots of books from TX. >> They even pay for the shipping both ways! They said that turn-around was >> currently about 6 weeks. >> I'm giving the OK (OCI) address to our Wise County libraries. I'm >> hoping >> that they will have their books scanned. >> Oklahoma Correctional Industries (OCI) >> 16161 Moffat Rd. >> Lexington, OK 73051 >> 405-527-4825 or 405-527-0833 >> >> Jack County only has 3 schools, but this was over 200 books! We indexed >> and put all the images of the pages up to 1980 online on the Jack County >> TXGenWeb pages. It's a wonderful resource of names and pictures (students, >> faculty, and old businesses in the advertising). Linking index of names and >> links to pages for Jacksboro High School starts on page - >> http://www.jackcountytexas.info/Misc/jacksboro.htm >> Bryson Schools - http://www.jackcountytexas.info/Misc/bryson.htm and >> Perrin >> Schools - >> http://www.jackcountytexas.info/Misc/perrin-whitt.htm >> Sue >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2013.0.2904 / Virus Database: 3222/6770 - Release Date: 10/21/13 > >