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Our final 1138 record books have been converted to digital images and are nearly ready to load onto the computer system. The source of these images is old 35 mm microfilm and as expected some are missing or inferior in quality. Before uploading these images the problems must be fixed. We have already corrected missing books and most instances of missing pages… In the interest of time our scanning company listed some problems simply as “many bad images”. Obviously, this general statement doesn’t help much…We need to ID which pages are the “bad images” so they can be corrected. This morning we began compiling a list of these bad images. This task is laborious and tedious. Each book that has been identified as containing "many bad images" must be reviewed "page by page". When this project is completed all images from
Book 1 (1855) to present will be available on the Internet and the in-house computer system. In addition all 213,000 Registered Land documents have been scanned. Yes… we are working on a way to make our indices available…but that’s another blog.