Waxahachie just sent their yearbooks to be scanned. The company arranges for pick-up by Fedex so that packing is all that has to be done by the sender. Shirley On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Sue Tackel <sue@wisecountytexas.info>wrote: > Yes, they ‘archive’ a copy. They said the project was started because > some schools lost their yearbooks in tornados, etc. They don't sell the > copies, but there is no copyright on them. Guess they could be used by > anyone. > It's free and they pay for the shipping both ways. Jack County had > over 200 books done. > Sue > > > From: Lela Golightley Evans > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 11:03 PM > To: Sue Tackel ; txgen@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [TXGEN] School Yearbooks Scanned > > Do they keep a copy of the scans? Does it cost to have them scanned? > > Lela > > > > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Sue Tackel <sue@wisecountytexas.info> > 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 > TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com 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 > TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >