I came into town to the community building that has internet access. I only have a little time, but I want to add something here on the history books. Last week was my week to stay with my parents where also is the headquarters for our F-H-C Educational Services. This week my sister JoAnne is there. While there we started backing up the materials collected for the history books on a secure on-line site where all that are putting the books together have access to.
Nellie has such an abundance of great materials in files on her computer, plus on flash drives, external backup drives, etc. already. We want to be sure that we have the materials in different places in case of problems, the last thing we need is to loose these wonderful materials. We had several boxes of original photos, documents, copies of documents, journals, interviews, etc. including back up cd's & dvd's sent up to Michigan from Florida about two years ago; the materials were from homes in Muskegon Heights with a lot of the materials coming from information that was given to Bethany (Cornelius Bethany Jordan) from her mother & grandmothers friends (including Mary Newville Gleason, Nellie Quist of the Knowles family, Gladys Way, Vernas Walker Titus, McGahan Redding, Giddings, Thompson, & many other ladies that moved to Muskegon from the Volney area, I don't remember all the names.) These materials were to be sent to the Newaygo County Museum to one of your book committee members & she was to send on to Volney to Tammy Bromley, Shaun Hill, or Nellie the boxes marked for the Volney History Book Committee. Unfortunately the boxes never made it to Toni Tozer Rumsey or the museum & to my understanding still have not shown up. So with that all in mind, we need to be sure we have everything backed up in a variety of places. This backing up takes much time, but is very important. We still are hoping to have the books ready for the publishers by next summer. Even though we are taking what we have already received & putting the books together, please continue to upload your old photos to this history site, different ones will be continuing to publish other history books. Thank you!
Naomi
Below is what I (Nellie) posted on the Volney History Site a few days ago.
Volney Area History Books Update -- We worked at sorting materials for the Volney History Books, now we are working at backing everything up. I had lightening strike once & wipe out my computer, I had a photo that had a virus attached to it that wiped out all my photos, I had my external back up drive burn up loosing everything on it once, and with constant updated technology many of my old cd's can not be read so we want to be sure we have everything backed up in different places. We have received a lot of wonderful, marvelous materials for the books! Thank you, everyone! We also want to encourage everyone to continue to post old photos from before 1985 on the Volney History Site & the family history sites. Many of the files that we need to back up are very large files & back up will only do smaller files, so first we have to break the large files down into several smaller files! This is all going to take some time, but hopefully we will be done with the back up by the end of December. We also have some more scanning to do & we will have to contact some people to do scanning of photos that are not clear enough for photos. We still hope to have the 3 volume of books ready for the publishers by next summer. Nellie
