tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post192629981011722530..comments2024-03-26T11:22:41.940-07:00Comments on Genea-Musings: Why Don't Genealogical Societies put their Periodical Indexes on the Internet for Free?Randy Seaverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17477703429102065294noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-14967976961356033002010-06-17T02:19:29.514-07:002010-06-17T02:19:29.514-07:00Not only the indexes, but the entire newsletter/jo...Not only the indexes, but the entire newsletter/journal/quarterly/whatever! Scanned copies of these publications could be posted to sites like <a href="http://www.scribd.com" rel="nofollow">Scribd</a> to generate revenue for the association. Scribd handles all the purchasing and customer service tasks, sending you the profit checks from those purchases.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-58766653017995566432010-06-15T08:07:20.176-07:002010-06-15T08:07:20.176-07:00Absolutely. One group I had never heard of until I...Absolutely. One group I had never heard of until I ran across one of their indexes online was <a href="http://www.lecomite.org/" rel="nofollow">Le Comite</a> in Louisiana. I found the index, ordered a back issue, was impressed, and then joined the group, and have been a member for a few years now.<br /><br />Many societies have woefully inadequate web presence, and it is going to drive them under, in the long run.Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03251821175075255774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-31348204097888328842010-06-15T07:15:20.762-07:002010-06-15T07:15:20.762-07:00Yes, shout it from the mountaintops! I have been a...Yes, shout it from the mountaintops! I have been arguing with one of my family association websites about this very thing. Why indeed would we not want to publicize the index? It is the best possible "bait" for attracting new subscribers, and it gives away nothing. It can only enhance the respect others have for the hard work others have done.<br /><br />DorisDorisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-72875547924254126632010-06-15T04:45:30.576-07:002010-06-15T04:45:30.576-07:00I have been arguing this point with local genealog...I have been arguing this point with local genealogical societies for years now: but the old-timers won't give in. As far as I know the only group that do this for their newsletters is the Elgin County branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society for their newsletter.<br />http://sites.google.com/site/elginbranchogs/Home/talbot-times-newslettersWilliam Bruce Hillmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02821747293960573537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-19708973512921710262010-06-14T22:17:27.767-07:002010-06-14T22:17:27.767-07:00Great post and I agree that more gen socs need to ...Great post and I agree that more gen socs need to do this.<br /><br />The Illinois State Genealogical Society has its index from 1968 - 1999 for the ISGS Quarterly available online:<br /><br /><a href="http://ilgensoc.blogspot.com/2010/06/resource-online-index-to-isgs-quarterly.html" rel="nofollow">http://ilgensoc.blogspot.com/2010/06/resource-online-index-to-isgs-quarterly.html</a>Thomas MacEnteehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09925130637060406529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-75256646483873354112010-06-14T20:06:27.280-07:002010-06-14T20:06:27.280-07:00The San Diego Genealogical Society has a partial s...The San Diego Genealogical Society has a partial set of indexes. We have all of the monthly newsletters online as well as a subject index from 2004. We started publishing the newsletter in PDF format then. Nothing before then. Of course the monthly newsletter is not a real "research" publication.<br /><br />Our quarterly publication, Leaves & Saplings, began in 1973. We have a topic index by volume and in subject groupings.<br /><br />The individual volumes only had surnames indexed.<br /><br />The society is in the process of photographing each volume. The print quality of the old issues does not ocr well so a searchable index will not be an easy job.<br /><br />We also have all of the L&S volumes on DVD's but they were scanned so the will be better with the photographs.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06714467049734696980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-14979229074186594642010-06-14T19:50:53.557-07:002010-06-14T19:50:53.557-07:00I was thinking about this subject over the weekend...I was thinking about this subject over the weekend. I cleaned out a shelf of NEHGS registers, and I'm going to donate them to the local library. I rarely use them, since I can search the index online and print out what I need. Below this is a shelf full of Mayflower Quarterly journals, and other genealogical journals. I have to keep them because the Mayflower Quarterly and others is not on line, not indexed on line either. As soon as they are, I'm cleaning out another shelf!Heather Wilkinson Rojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17704949156266722016noreply@blogger.com