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NILES to get deeds office
South Bend Tribune - South Bend,IN,USA
... JOSEPH -- It will be a big fall for the Berrien County Register of
Deeds office. Not only will more than 1.5 million new documents be
transformed
to digital ...
<http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/2005/09/11/local.20050911-sbt-MI
CH-C4-Niles_to_get_deeds.sto>

HISTORY is being flooded, too
Salon - USA
... "Imagine that Washington DC is struck by a CAT 5 hurricane and the
National Archives has been damaged and/or flooded," Kelly, an archivist
at the University of ...
<http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/09/10/new_orleans_archives/>

ARCHIVES NZ now offers online index searcher
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
... manager Tracie Almond. "Now you don't need an archivist any more,
even
to make those connections that aren't obvious.". She says ...
<http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3407062a28,00.html>

'BATTLE of Palmdale': Sound, Fury and 1 Lost Plane
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... More than four decades later, Peter Merlin, 41, an archivist and
historian
in the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center history office at Edwards Air
Force Base ...
<http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-then11sep11,1,2140762.story?coll
=la-headlines-california>

DISASTER Planning 101: Reconstructing Financial Files
Hartford Courant - United States
... is maintained in your Social Security files, said Dorothy ... their
accounts, obtain payment, or recreate lost documents. ... even if their
personal records have been ...
<http://www.courant.com/business/hc-singletary0911.artsep11,0,863671.stor
y?coll=hc-headlines-business>

UK tax agency inadvertently deleted 1M records
Digital Silence - PA,USA
... delete that email you were working on, just be glad it wasn't
this...the
UK's Inland Revenue department accidentally deleted almost 1 million
taxpayer
records ...
<http://www.d-silence.com/headlines/Tax%20Record%20Delete/21663>


FATE of records in New Orleans still uncertain
2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
... As more word is received from other archival facilities, a list and
the status of the collections will be given in this format. ...
<http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/091105/fea_ancestors001.shtml>

BBC opens its archives
TechSpot - USA
The BBC is to let folks who fancy themselves as future film producers or
music video-makers to rip, mix and share clips from their archives. ...
<http://www.techspot.com/news/18677-bbc-opens-its-archives.html>

ACADIANA Diary: Rich trove of historical documents submerged
The Daily Advertiser - Lafayette,LA,USA
... Bruce Turner, archivist at the University of Louisiana, reminds me,
"There are tremendous cultural institutions in New Orleans from
libraries
to archives to ...
<http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050911/COLUMNI
STS01/509110359/1002>

RESCUING the data from the morass
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - MN,USA
... to recovery, some are wading into their businesses to salvage the
records
they will ... the drives go through diagnostics to find out how many
files
have survived. ...
<http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/5606109.html>

PREPARE papers for disaster
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
... So in addition to, or in lieu of, a box with your important files,
Stein recommends making photocopies of your documents and placing them
in a safe-deposit box ...
<http://newsobserver.com/business/story/2793421p-9233297c.html>

Provo Daily Herald, Sat, 10 Sep 2005 0:24 AM PDT
LDS Church to put microfilmed records online
http://www.harktheherald.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=articl

e&sid=64017
SALT LAKE CITY -- The LDS Church has more than 2 million rolls of
microfilmed birth, death and census records stored in granite vaults in
the Wasatch
Mountains, 25 miles southeast of Salt Lake City.The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced plans to digitize and index
that
information and make in available on the Internet.


Washington Post
The Digital Storage Solution
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/10/AR200509
1000174.html>
When disaster strikes and every second counts, there's rarely time to
sift through file cabinets for insurance policies or flip through photo
albums to grab irreplaceable pictures.




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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