New Blog for Indexing

The latest version of the Massachusetts Deed Indexing Standards (its 3rd but probably not final draft, at least) is now ready for review and comment. You can download a copy in PDF format from www.lowelldeeds.com or by CLICKING HERE. We'd like to receive as many comments as possible regarding these new standards as well as suggestions for other things that should be added to them. To allow a virtual debate on this topic, I've created a new blog that's called Massachusetts Deed Indexing which you should check out as soon as you've finished reading this. Thus far, I'm the only one who can make actual posts to that blog, but I'm trying to recruit a small team of editors to assist, but that blog, like this one, includes a very useful "comment" feature that can become the foundation for our electronic dialog. The comment feature may be used anonymously (although comments carry more weight when the author is identified). You do have to type in a silly-looking code word before you can comment, but this is just a way to protect against machine generated comments that have nothing to do with this - aka spam. So please check out the new blog and don't be shy about letting us know how you feel.