Dear Bill,

I wrote to the gentleman who has put portions of the Tully Times on the Onondaga
County web site - below please find his mailnote.  I'll be interestesd to hear
how this project is going!

Thanks,
Pam Priest
Onondaga County USGenWeb Site Coordinator
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyononda/INDEX.HTM

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> Hi Pam,
>
> Thanks for the forward about the Tully Times. I presume that the historical
> society has just gotten the microfilm. I sure would like to see this project
> move forward, but it could become time consuming.
>
> Film can be directly scanned, either as film negatives or film positives, and
> put into a file, which then can be transferred to a CD-ROM. Just takes a
> transparency adapter for a scanner or a special scanner that just does film.
> However, inasmuch as microfilm comes in rolls, the adapter needs to be able to
> accommodate roll film without cutting the film up into individual frames.
>
> Transferring files to a CD-ROM is the quick part of the project. The scanning
> part would take much longer. Please keep me informed.

> Mike

Bill Casey wrote:

> The Tully Area Historical Society is interested in having the newly aquired
> "Tully Times" microfilmed.  This is a process that they have gone through
> before meanwhile the collection has grown and they would like to be able to
> allow interested people to view this historical info without further
> decomposition of the materials.
>
> It has been suggested that they have the material digitized and stored on CD-
> Rom.
> Is anyone familiar with this process?  It would be great to convert the
> existing microfilm to CD-Rom also.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bill Casey
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