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Subject: [NYHIST-L] scrapbooks
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.