Family Search and the scanning of OCPL’s historical book collection. 22 September 2018

What will we cover today? Family Search Scanning How to find those books? Background Overview How it happens Q & A Online resources for books Focus on Family Search Methods – how to find books Tips and tricks Guidance Q & A

Timeline of Family Search book digitization. Pilot scanning project at BYU with FHL begins. 2004 Landmark number of volumes scanned. 200,000 2015 100,000 books scanned. 2013 2018 As of September 14th Family Search has available online 371,475 volumes. 2018 6325 volumes from OCPL collection. 2014 OCPL’s genealogy collection joins Family Search scanning projects. 2007 Allen County Public Library joins FS scanning 2008 Houston Public Library begins scanning

The Project by the numbers: As of 14 September 2018 Total volumes available online – 371,475 OCPL total volumes available – 6,325 17 Collections 126 Languages More than just books Manuscripts Scrapbooks Serials Maps Charts And more…

Overview of the Family Search scanning project Thursday Friday People What’s being scanned? End product Sunday Family Search Employees Family Search Volunteers OCPL Librarians & support staff Other scanning locations Complete book Every word searchable PDF format Free Exceptions… Books and serials Only public domain Of genealogical interest Unique – no duplication

Greater Detail of the Project: Published genealogies Manuscripts County, town and local histories Gazetteers City Directories Census Records Government Documents Indexes and other compiled derivatives Yearbooks Maps, charts

From shelf to Internet: Find Book the image- Does It Qualify? the image- Meta Data Utah me- Family Search Cataloging the image- Meta Data OCPL the image- Scan & QC the image- Scanned images Utah the image- Family Search OCR, QC the image- Images uploaded to Family Search Website the image-

Family Search is not the only online source for books: Google Books - http://books.google.com Hathi Trust - www.hathitrust.org Internet Archive - http://archive.org Digital Public Library – DPLA https://dp.la/ Free Irish Genealogy Books - http://freeirishgenebooks.blogspot.com/ PERSI – Periodical Source Index - https://search.findmypast.com HeritageQuest $ - free access with Onondaga County Library card! WorldCat - http://www.worldcat.org/ There are more….

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Presenters: Angela Bailey Holly Sammons Barbara Scheibel For the Central New York Genealogical Society 22 September 2018 A copy of this presentation can be found at: www.820research.com/cny