Hello Mark, I am heading a volunteer team for an indexing project between Ella Sharp Museum, Jackson District Library and The Jackson County Genealogical Society. We are indexing Michigan deaths/obits/funeral information found in our local papers starting in 1847-2019. We are using an excel format. Our team has briefly discussed what you are asking about, a search engine. Toledo Lucas County Public Library has a search engine for their obituaries, but I am not sure what 'drives' it. I have used it, and it works well. Check it out at toledolibrary.org. If you decide to pursue a benchmarking trip to Toledo, please keep us in mind, I am very interested in how this would work. Pam Fugere

February 6, 2020 at 9:30 AM "Snoblen, Patricia" <snoblenpa@myjdl.com> wrote:

Hi Pam

Read the email below. If you would like to send him an email that would be great. It looks like we are not the only ones thinking about this.

Thanks

Patricia Snoblen

Meijer Branch Manager

Jackson District Library

2699 Airport Road

Jackson, MI

517-788-4480

snoblenpa@myjdl.com mailto:snoblenpa@myjdl.com

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From: michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org <michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org> On Behalf Of Mark Mullinax via Michlib-l Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 2:07 PM To: michlib-l@mcls.org Subject: [Michlib-l] Search form for Access database

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We have created several databases from our local newspaper going back to 1880. They are Microsoft Access files covering local obituaries, marriages, births and other items. Each database contains up to nine separate columns including the person’s name, spouse, father, mother, newspaper date and so on. We would like to have search forms which could be placed on our website that would allow patrons to search the indexes. Ideally, these search forms would be capable of searching a single column or several of the columns of data at once. In addition, since these projects are ongoing, we would need to update each database periodically. Does anyone have experience with this? How did you create the search form? Did you use a vendor? If your library has something similar that doesn’t use Microsoft Access, what do you use? Thanks.

Mark Mullinax Genealogy and Local History Librarian Brighton District Library 100 Library Drive Brighton, Michigan 48116