[TI] Denver records

[Jim McCarthy]

What is the URL for "Laura's other web site"?  Jim McCarthy
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Subject: [TI] Denver records


> This just came accross Laura's other web site.  Might be of interest to
> some.
> Rosalie Amison
>
>>From the Denver Post:
>
> 1800s Denver marriage, real-estate documents digitized
> By Howard Pankratz
> The Denver Post
> Article Last Updated: 06/24/2008 04:45:49 PM MDT
>
> One of Anne-Imelda Radice's most emotional and memorable moments was 
> looking
> at the Ellis Island record books signed by her Italian grandparents when
> they immigrated to the United States.
>
> Today, Radice, director of the Washington-based federal Institute of 
> Museum
> and Library Services, looked at books in the Denver Public Library that
> carry similar historical significance.
>
> The books, dating from 1859 to 1900, list marriage records and real-estate
> transactions from Denver's frontier days.
>
> For the many American families now engaged in tracing their roots, the
> records can tell when great-great grandma married great-great granddad and
> where their ancestors lived in Denver and how their neighborhoods 
> developed.
>
> Now, the fragile books - more than 100 volumes - are being digitized.
>
> Jim Kroll, manager of the library's Western history/genealogy department
> says the digitized records will become "an excellent resource for our
> genealogy and house-history customers" and will " document the unique
> stories of each (Denver) community."
>
> The digital images will be stored in the Colorado Alliance of Research
> Libraries' Alliance Digital Repository (ADR) and will be accessible 
> through
> a Web interface on the Denver Public Library and ADR website.
>
> Radice's institute helped fund the project with a $779,000 grant.
>
> Today, she toured the new state-of-the-art digitizing equipment in
> immaculate rooms in Denver's Central Library.
>
> Radice says her agency awarded the Denver project the money because of the
> city's keen interest in preserving its historic treasures and the ability 
> to
> do so in a facility as modern as the Denver Central Library.
>
> "You are the best of the best," said Radice. "You are a phenomenal city. 
> You
> get it."
>
> The project is a partnership of the city of Denver and the Denver Public
> Library.
>
> "Every library wonders what they are going to do with city records," said
> Radice. "Cities send the records to libraries because they trust them not 
> to
> lose them. I think seeing what is happening in Denver - that Denver has
> taken the ball and run with it - may" encourage other cities to follow 
> suit
> and digitize city records.
>
> Radice and the library officials said it is important to preserve old
> documents.
>
> They noted that there are 4.8 billion artifacts held in the country's
> archives, libraries, museums and historical societies.
>
> According to the nonprofit Heritage Preservation, which works to save
> objects that embody the nation's history, 65 percent of the country's
> collecting institutions have experienced damage due to improper storage.
> ===============
> "Viva La Famiglia!!"
> Lou Alfano
>
>
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