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Oregon's Past b ecomes Present: Digitizing Historical Records

Learn about the digitization project in partnership with Ancestry, making Oregon's historical records easily accessible. Discover the process and the benefits of working with Ancestry.

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Oregon's Past b ecomes Present: Digitizing Historical Records

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  1. Oregon's Past becomes Present: Digitizing Historical Records Oregon Library Association Conference April 8, 2011

  2. Overview Origins of the Project Partnering with Ancestry Working with Ancestry Selecting our Materials How the Process Works

  3. Partnering With Ancestry Heard of State Partnership Program at a conference Initial contact to learn about program Sample documents (from California partnership) Internal inventory of possible collections Ancestry visit Finalize agreement

  4. Partnering With Ancestry Ancestry’s Mission: To help everyone discover, preserve and share their family history • World’s largest online community of people interested in their family history • A company of individuals passionate about helping others to discover and share the stories of their past • 12 years online • 4 Billion records/8 billion names • A leader in the family history market for over 20 years

  5. Partnering With Ancestry Archives and repositories hold many of the records that comprise the collective written story of the past, the documents of our existence It is largely through these records that individuals are able to discover and tell the story of their ancestors. Core to Ancestry.com’s mission is to make available and easily searchable, as many of these crucial, story telling documents and records as possible Ancestry spends millions each year to help in the preservation and access of records on the National, State, and Local level.

  6. Partnering With Ancestry • ACCESS • Better serve patrons • 1 million Ancestry.com subscribers • 10 million/month unique Ancestry.com visitors • Make your records available worldwide • Free access to state residents

  7. Working With Ancestry Agreement negotiated Documents prioritized through negotiation Ancestry hires digitizer Ancestry provides equipment State Library inventories and controls documents Digitized documents to Ancestry for OCR and indexing State Library gets images and indexing to share with patrons

  8. OSL’s Genealogical Resources A variety of genealogical materials available at the State Library

  9. Oregon Biography Index

  10. Motor Vehicle Registrations

  11. Lots of them!

  12. The set-up

  13. Scanning cards

  14. All cards are not created equal

  15. Scanning motor vehicle registrations

  16. Lining up the image

  17. Still smiling after half a million images

  18. Oregon State Library contacts Robert Hulshof-Schmidt Alice LaViolette Jey Wann

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