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 [log in to unmask] wrote: > 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 > Casey Dairy Farm > Ag Books & Antiques > POBox 36 > 1136 Berry Road > Apulia Sta.,NY 13020 > Farm Business: [log in to unmask] > Book Business: Ag [log in to unmask] > 315 683-5674