[OPLINLIST] Get Those Obituaries In Order and Online

[Becky Hill]

Have Who do You Think You Are and Finding  Your Roots TV shows brought in a
constant stream of people searching their ancestors?  Why not make you and
your patron's life easier by organizing your local dead people and indexing
them into the Ohio Obituary Index?

 

Make your genealogical collection a source of revenue by being a part of the
web-based Ohio Obituary Index, www.rbhayes.org/index, The Rutherford B.
Hayes Presidential Center hosts this award-winning web site that you can
join, along with 50 other Ohio Public Libraries. Once your obituaries are
indexed online people will find them and either come to your library or
order them. We are now partnered with Ancestry.com and Archives.com and the
exposure to our data has increased exponentially because of those
affiliations although our site will always remain free to view.

 

The Hayes Presidential Center will be demonstrating its Ohio Obituary Index
at the Ohio Library Council's Expo in Columbus on Friday, September 7th
http://olc.org/expo.asp. I will be there to greet old friends who are
currently partners and encourage other libraries to join us in this
web-based index of newspaper obituaries and other items, such as local
history collections of clippings, wills and estates, funeral records, etc.

 

Why re-invent the wheel and tax your own too-busy technology department when
we already have done the work, created a very user-friendly interface, and
attracted millions of viewers? Started in 2000, the online Index currently
receives almost 230,000 page views a month  (over 2 million hits a month)
and  is cited as a valuable genealogical tool in books and referred to by
over 300 other web sites. At this time, we have about 2,200,000 names in the
database from Fremont to Marietta and citations to over 3 million newspaper
sources. The Ohio Obituary Index received the Technology Excellence Award
given by the New England Historic Genealogical Society.  

 

For $1500, a public library or historical society can join the Hayes
partnership, receive training on how to enter their data, and start
inputting their names into the web-based system.  The only other charge is
an annual fee of $200 for website maintenance and quality control. If you
have an existing database, it is possible for an additional fee to import
those records into our system.

 

Check to see if your Library Director, other staff member or you will be
attending the OLC 2012 Expo and stop by booth #517 to see the Ohio Obituary
Index and the administrative side of the database in action.  There will be
chocolate, too!  If you have any questions before or after, please contact
me at bhill at rbhayes.org or 800-998-7737.

 

Becky Hill 

 

P.S.  We do know that everyone is not genealogically obsessed.  Please
forward to staff members who might be interested.  Thanks!

 

 

Rebecca B. Hill

Head Librarian

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center

Spiegel Grove

Fremont, OH 43420

 

419.332.2081 ext. 231

bhill at rbhayes.org

www.rbhayes.org

419.332.4952 (fax)

 

Rutherford B. Hayes Center Library is open Tuesday - Saturdays, 9 to 5,
closed Mondays due to State of Ohio cutbacks

 

 

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