----- Original Message ----- From: Jon Noring <jon@noring.name> Date: Thursday, January 27, 2005 9:10 pm Subject: Re: Some humble suggestions... Re: [PGCanada] Re: PG-Canada / List of tasks to do
Laugh. I live in Salt Lake City, and am an avid amateur genealogist. I often do research in the Family History Library downtown. (I am NOT LDS.)
I'm a recovering one. Genealogist, that is, not LDS. I can probably recruit 100 volunteers if we can start getting into things like county histories and the amazing corpus of genealogical works that have come out of Quebec over the past century.
Again, provisional publication of the scans could help accelerate and distribute that process.
Certainly. Placing the scans online (which I assume is what you mean by "publication") certainly *requires* that cataloging records be first generated from them, as well as copyright clearance.
Copyright clearance, yes; full cataloguing information can follow. Again, making the scans provisionally available can help with that process, too, giving cataloguers more information to go on.