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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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…

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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-

8. Family Search is not the only online source for books:
Google Books -
Hathi Trust - 
Internet Archive -
Digital Public Library – DPLA
Free Irish Genealogy Books -
PERSI – Periodical Source Index -
HeritageQuest $ - free access with Onondaga County Library card!
WorldCat -
There are more….

9. ?
Questions?

10. Presenters:
Angela Bailey
Holly Sammons
Barbara Scheibel
For the Central New York Genealogical Society
22 September 2018
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