Hancock County's remaining records after the fire
Thousands of historic documents, as much as 220 years old, were backed up
after all.
Since the Hancock County courthouse burned, using a microfilm reader is the
only way to see many county records.
But Steve Schaefer hopes to change that by digitizing and indexing them.
Schaefer is the director at the Uncle Remus Regional Library System, based
in Madison. He explains digitization as simply taking a picture of a
document and posting it online. Indexing is a bit more advanced, allowing
people to search for keywords.
He plans to get all these documents online, available, and safe from harm's
way.
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