Shirley; I'm in no position to do any of this, as much as I would like to
but may I ask: if a person looks up census on microfilm and makes copies in
the library of it can that person simply email(if they had a scanner that
wasn't broken-ahem) the copies of the pages to a site at Rootsweb? Let each
person decide for themselves or ask over the Internet what some name looks
like that they can't decipher? frances
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shirley" 
To: 
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 10:31 AM
Subject: more thoughts about transcribing census


 This is from one of the leaders at  the USGenWeb Census Project at
> http://www.us-census.org/info/
>
> "working with a "team of volunteers" is a great way of
> > getting a particular census transcribed.  The team members can even
> > proofread each others work.  Learning to decipher a particular
> enumerator's
> > handwriting is a hard part of transcribing, and the team can help each
> > other.>
> > We have been encouraging the State Coordinators to try to get more teams
> of
> > volunteers. "
>
> US GenWeb has a program called CART which you can download or you can use
> Excel to enter the information.
>
> I don't know if this is still in effect, but S-K Publications, Wichita, KS
> (http://www.skpub.com/genie/census2.html   was providing a free copy to US
> GenWeb census transcriber volunteers.
>
> As with most volunteer work you get more than you give.  No one can
> appreciate the work that goes into transcribing until one has done so.  It
> will help one learn to decipher old handwriting.  It will help one
> understand why there are so many mistakes on people's names.  It will give
a
> whole new perspective on how much work has been done and how much needs to
> be done to make census information readily available on the internet.
>
> Also, another way to get more census info online is at Kindred
Konnections.
> Volunteer to do a census page and you will received a one hour free search
> at K-K.
>
> If you are a subscriber to Family Tree Maker's Books online there are many
> census images there.
>
> I have no connection to US GenWeb Census Project, S-K Publications or
> Kindred Konnections.
>
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