As a new town historian, I inherited a number of
large scrapbooks filled with local newspaper articles cut and pasted into their
pages covering a spread of many years. Until now, they have only been used by
occasional curiosity seekers thumbing through pages until they tire of reading
them. I would like to index them on computer so that researchers could find
specific people, places, and events. I am thinking of using microsoft word
tables (I cannot afford access.) to create lists that provide book, page,
people names, place names, and events that we can then use the "find" tool
to locate. This will be a big project for volunteers, so I would like to use the
simplest yet effective technique. Would appreciate any thoughts.
Thanks.