Mining the Historian Archives 01
For over five years, I have been trying to find a way to publish information from the Historian Archives of the Strong Family Association of America (SFAA).
The SFAA published seven volumes of genealogy in the 1980s and 1990s. I have in my basement 24 shelf-feet of upright file folders. We have been collecting information for a quarter century which has never yet seen the light of day.
One effort has been to convert this information to database form. There are a number of genealogy-database programs for Macs and PCs, with a standard data interchange format. These programs can generate genealogy books from the database. In theory, then, as new information comes in it can be added to the “master database” and new versions of our books generated.
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