Obituary Indexing Crew at the MAC.......... finding "goodie" names too.

 

Most Friday mornings, you'll find Jeanne Coe, Lynda Keenan, Duane Beck, Lynn Krogh, Patricia Flint and Donna Phillips (behind the camera) at the MAC archives. We're on the home stretch of indexing the obituaries found in 25 big file drawers of Pacific Northwest biographies. As we have good times with this project, we often find SUCH interesting names and other stuff:

• Elvetta Lewis
• Nicholas Likarish
• Ozias Lewis
• Halaha Lewis (wife)
• Sonji Rutan's mother's obituary!
• Many lengthy 1920s newspaper stories of pioneer history

We've also opened biography envelopes for Abraham Lincoln and some others that we wonder why they're included at our MAC. 

Thought you'd like to know that a sub-project of EWGS is coming along splendidly. 

Lynda & Duane: Obituary Team Duo

 

Most Fridays for two hours, Lynda and Duane (along with four other EWGS members) go to our MAC museum and volunteer their time to index obituaries from the 25 files of biographies (see the filing cabinets?). Lynda pulls the envelopes, opens each one and pulls out the contents. Sometimes there is no obit, just biographical stuff. Both of them say it's such fun and they often pause to read these old (like 100 year old) newspaper stories as they search out obituaries. 

EWGS thanks you, Lynda and Duane!!