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From: "Hal Nesbitt" <>
Subject: Re: [S-I] Request for suggestions
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:21:46 -0800
References: <5.0.0.25.2.20081213123613.02432158@mail.plmw.com>


Emalu,
Small world, huh.
Hal
----- Original Message -----
From: "Quint Hart" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: [S-I] Request for suggestions


>i don't often reply , but here are some thoughts. There are books on
> google that can be opened and read and down loaded. I don't know how you
> would contact them but you could look into it. Also the huge LDS library
> in Salt Lake would be happy to have them. Perhaps put them on film to be
> distributed. Also I've donated to local genealogical libraries when the
> family is from a specific area. I think on of the above would have a
> greater reach.
>
> You could also take them into a copier and copy them off for about cents
> a
> page and have them soft bound. That would give you more than one copy.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Emalu
>
>
>
> At 05:50 AM 12/13/2008 -0600, you wrote:
>>Friends:
>> I am looking for suggestions on where to place two volumes of family
>>geneology that are likely to be of interest to some of the families
>>represented on this list. Both volumes represent families heavy in S-I
>>heritage.
>> They are "Geneology of Hugh Stewart and Descendents 1914" and "Samuel
>>Craig, Senior: Pioneer to Western Pensylvania and his Descendents", dated
>>1915.
>> The Stewart book is heavy on families concentrated in south central
>>Ohio, where Hugh Stewart settled in the early 1800s, especially the
>>Chillicothe area. Hugh (name also spelled Stuart), came from Washington
>>County, Md. My own family name, Fullerton, appears frequently in this
>>book.
>> The Craig book, as the title suggests, is concentrated on western
>>Pennsylvania, notably Armstrong, Westmoreland and Allegheny counties. It
>>came to me through my mother's family, the McKees of the Worthington, Pa.,
>>area.
>> So I have two questions you might help with:
>> 1) Is there any cost-effective way to either reproduce these books so
>>that copies may be placed in multiple locations, or to digitize them and
>>make them available to family historians?
>> 2) Eventually, I will be done with both, and I have no close
>> relatives
>>interested in carrying on family history research. What might be an
>>appropriate repository to make them accessible to the greatest number of
>>genologists and family historians, while assuring their safekeeping?
>> I am not interested in selling either volume. I am interested in
>> seeing
>>that they are preserved and made available to the widest possible
>>audience.
>> I'm also mildly curious to know if anyone on this list owns either
>>volume, or knows what organizations currently have them in their
>>collections. I have no idea how widely distributed the volumes were when
>>printed nearly a century ago.
>>Thanks for your help,
>>Hugh Stuart Fullerton
>>
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