[OPLINLIST] Ohio Obituary Index - at Kalahari

[Becky Hill]

Have Who do You Think You Are and other genealogy 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,  <http://www.rbhayes.org/index>
www.rbhayes.org/index, The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center hosts
this award-winning web site that you can join, along with 61 other Ohio
Public Libraries . http://index.rbhayes.org/hayes/index/display.asp?id=934
<http://index.rbhayes.org/hayes/index/display.asp?id=934&subj=index>
&subj=index

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 Convention and Expo at the Kalahari Resort in
Sandusky on Wednesday and Thursday, October 9th and 10th
http://olc.org/ConventionAndExpo.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 200,000 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 2,700,000 names in the
database from Akron to Marietta and citations to over 3 million newspaper
sources. 

 

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, starting
the following year. If you have an existing database, it is possible to
import those records into our system for an additional fee.

 

Check to see if your Library Director, other staff member or you will be
attending the OLC 2013 Convention and Expo and stop by booth #402 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  <mailto:bhill at rbhayes.org> bhill at rbhayes.org or
800-998-7737.

 

Becky Hill 

 

P.S.  Trivia nugget:  From this year's Who Do You Think You Are TV show, one
of Cindy Crawford's ancestors was found to be Thomas Trowbridge. Our 19th
president, Rutherford B. Hayes, was the 5th great-grandson of Thomas, so
that means that Cindy and Ruddy are cousins! Personally, I don't see the
resemblance.  J

 

 

Rebecca B. Hill

Head Librarian

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center

Spiegel Grove

Fremont, OH 43420

 

 <tel:419.332.2081%20ext.%20231> 419.332.2081 ext. 231

 <mailto:bhill at rbhayes.org> bhill at rbhayes.org

 <http://www.rbhayes.org> www.rbhayes.org

 <tel:419.332.4952> 419.332.4952 (fax)

 

Rutherford B. Hayes Center Library is open Tuesday - Saturdays, 9 to 5

 

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