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-----Original Message----- From: Danielle Plumer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 4:00 PM To: ctls-l Subject: RE: Obituary Index Approval request for list: <[email protected]> from user: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At Round Rock, we have a database of obits from the Round Rock Leader since 1975. We get the microfilm of the Leader every six months, and we have a volunteer go through and record obits, including name, birth and death, and date of publication. This was originally put into a Word document as a simple table, but I've recently put it Access and we will put it online eventually. I believe that the city uses ColdFusion, which will be used to serve the data from the Access database, but I haven't gotten many details on how we'll do all that yet. We also have a vertical file with clippings, including obits, and I'm working on getting that indexed and the information added to our database. Volunteers are wonderful! Danielle ============================= Danielle Cunniff Plumer Reference Librarian Genealogy and Local History Services Round Rock Public Library System Phone: 512.218.7018 Fax: 512.218.7061 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Laurie Mahaffey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 12:39 PM To: ctls-l Subject: Obituary Index Is anyone doing this? Please reply to Karen or to the list, so that we can all see who's doing what. I know at least one library out there has obituaries in a card file. ...building an obituary database, basically indexing citations in the local newspaper that the Library has on microfilm. Have any other CTLS members undertaken such a project? I'd sure like to know what software they used and how they built their index. If I do such a thing, I'd want to offer it online. Thanks! Karen Ellis Library Director Taylor Public Library 400 Porter Street Taylor, TX 76574 512-352-3434 This is a message from CTLS-L. Selecting "Reply" will send a message to the originator. Selecting "Reply to All" will send a message to the entire list. ---------------------------------------------------------
