ENGINEER'S Report - Tech Info

This new piece of technology is being used by the Evansville Public Library system to digitalize books & records.

BookDrive Pro

The Ultimate Solution For Mass Digitization.

* Scan anything up to A2 size.
* Natively captures flat images so there is no need for page curvature correction software.
* Provides the user with the ability to scan 1,000 pages per hour.
* Scan easily without pushing buttons with Auto Capture Switch.
* Advanced lighting system produces well, evenly lit images.
* Supports any Canon SLR camera so the product will never become obsolete - if your needs change or if newer better cameras are introduced just upgrade your cameras while keeping your scanning platform and software package.

BookDrive Pro is the most powerful model of the successful BookDrive line of scanners. BookDrive solution solves typical problems found in overhead scanners: page curvature, damage to book spine, and low productivity. Learn more at the Atiz web page: http://pro.atiz.com/

-Submitted by Chris Myers

Marker/Plaque/Monument Monday

Beautiful White Marble Plaque

1931 Dedication

Downtown Central Library

The city built a very nice, larger, new library downtown and this building was adopted by the Children's Museum of Evansville (AKA: cMoe). My wife & I took our grandkids to this marvelous building that has been restored and preserved and being used for kids of all ages to have a lot of fun and learn, too! If you have not been there get your kids, grandkids or the neighbors' kids and go... you will be proud of what Evansville has to offer our kids!

-submitted by JGWest

RACING DOWN the RIVER -Brief Genealogical Notes

More Notes...

From Chris Myers ~ The Evansville Public Library has some very high resolution scans of Photos and a couple of early City Directories online.
http://evpl.org/research/digitalcollections/

Don Counts honored as a "HERO" in The Veteran's Voice [December 2008]. http://www.theveteransvoice.com/Hero.html

Reminder ~ Tomorrow night TSGS will hold its monthly membership meeting. Please come meet with us , you do not need to be a member to attend our meetings. At 6:30 PM for the HELP Session, Becky West will make you laugh and make you cry as she tells you her "Journey to the Beginning" - her adoption story. She has a lot of "how to" and some entertaining short stories. Connie Conrad will present the program for our regular meeting that starts at 7:30 PM. Her power point presentation "So You Think It Doesn't Exist" will entertain and inform you of ways to find elusive records. Stop by our meeting at Willard Library and tell me what you think about our blog.

Follow-up on the photo submitted by Don Counts concerning J.D. Ritzy's Fantasy of Lights, the annual event raised $142,000 for the Easter Seals Foundation for the Evansville Rehabilitation Center.

The ClustrMaps counter on our regular TSGS Web Site tells us that the site has been visited by people from 8 countries outside of the United States since 14 December 2008. And the old counter registers over 54, 660 "hits" since it started in 1997. The site usually gets fairly low hit numbers, but since we developed the blog and added a few more things to our site, the numbers have climbed significantly. Around Thanksgiving we reached the 52,000 mark which means that in about 6 weeks, the site has had over 2,660 hits! See our site at: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~intsgs/index.html