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January 31, 2000 CENSUS IMAGES ONLINE IN THE USGENWEB ARCHIVES: KANSAS
The USGenWeb Archives Launches its Special Collections Project, http://www.usgwarchives.net/special/ As the USGenWeb Archives grew, it was apparent not all submitted data fell into the standard state/county category, but covered multiple counties or states. The USGenWeb Archives Special Collections Project was developed in January 2000 to cover this special data. Special Collections also provides an entry page to scanned out-of-print books on family studies, historical books and various journals permanently stored in the USGenWeb Archives for free access. These books will be scanned and placed online. If you are interested in volunteering to transcribe any of the books, or if you have a special collection that you would like to share with others for free access, please contact Joy Fisher.
OTHER USGENWEB ARCHIVES SUBMISSIONS THIS LAST WEEK:
COLORADO Larimer County Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman donated 25 more biographies from Stone's 1918 "History of Colorado".
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Lake County Medina County Warren County
SOUTH DAKOTA Union County WASHINGTON
In addition to the two new county pages which you have just been notified of, several other revisions of other county pages have been made with additional information, including the cemetery pages for Adams, Asotin, Douglas, Garfield, and Lincoln Counties. We have also added recently the burial list of the Mukilteo Pioneer Cemetery in Snohomish County. Of the state's 39 counties, 22 now have comprehensive cemetery pages online. In each case, the names and locations of all know county burial places are given, after many hours of careful research. In every case, the listing and information shown is the most accurate and comprehensive ever done and published for that county, and draws upon all known sources. Washington leads all other states in USGW in getting this sort of material online, and I have not found any non-USGW webpages for any state that can compare. When finished this will be a model resource, unique to Washington GenWeb. At the same time I can report to you that our effort to place online the burial lists of the state's cemeteries is moving forward rapidly, and that Washington leads all other states in this regard. This is something in which we can all take pride. In the Washington Cemetery Project we now have almost 150 past and present volunteer transcribers, and approximately one third of the over 2000 cemeteries in the state are being worked on. Within the next month or two I hope to get online several dozen cemetery transcriptions which have already been completed.
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