Volunteers wanted for: Biographical Index of Clare Champion

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Larry Brennan
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Volunteers wanted for: Biographical Index of Clare Champion

Post by Larry Brennan » Wed Mar 25, 2015 6:22 pm

25 March 2015New Clare Roots Project
‘Biographical Index of Clare Champion 1903-1935’
Here's an exciting new Clare Roots project that will help people all over the world via Clare County Library website: Digitisation of the Biographical Index of the Clare Champion 1903-1935.
The project is a collaboration between Clare Roots Society and Clare County Library. Clare Roots Society is looking for volunteers to assist in the collection and recording of Biographical Notices published in the Clare Champion Newspaper for years 1903-1935. This information will create a searchable index to be made available on the Clare Library website for Public access when completed.
A similar project was undertaken some years ago for Clare Champion issues published for years 1935-1985 and the index is presently available on-line at http://www.clarelibrary.ie/. The new project will complete the index for ALL Clare Champion publications, 1903-1985.
The editions of the newspaper can be on Microfilm reel, Microfiche and Hardcopy, located in the Local Studies Centre, Ennis; where the review and recording will take place. Alternatively, volunteers living in the Dublin area could use the NLI to access their archive of Clare Champion publications. Volunteers may have events in their family history of special interest related to specific calendar years and where possible these calendar years will be assigned to them on a ‘first request’ basis. Transcriptions can be carried out at a time suitable for the volunteer.
• Volunteers will review the newspapers for the following Biographical information:

Birth
Engagement
Marriage
Ordination
Death
Misc.



• Information to be collected:
Surname Forename Address Type of Notice

The information collected will be entered into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet provided by the Project Co-ordinator. However, lack of computer skills should not preclude anyone from volunteering for this project. Collecting the information and submitting hand written lists will be of considerable benefit to the Project Team. A briefing session will be provided for those who are new to handling hardcopy archives to ensure protection of the paper copies.

Interested researchers can volunteer by contacting the Project Co-ordinator:
Larry Parks (CRS) or Eric Shaw (CRS)
087 2464386 / 065 6828397 087-9791955
e-mail: cloudnet@iol.ie cartock@gmail.com

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