{"id":26,"date":"2005-07-29T13:56:19","date_gmt":"2005-07-29T18:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2005-07-29T13:56:33","modified_gmt":"2005-07-29T18:56:33","slug":"louisiana-library-has-an-aggressive-genealogy-indexing-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/2005\/07\/29\/louisiana-library-has-an-aggressive-genealogy-indexing-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Library has an &#8220;aggressive genealogy indexing project&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edailynews.info\/articles\/2005\/07\/28\/news\/news14.txt\">The Bogalusa Daily News<\/a> reports on a library with an &#8220;aggressive genealogy indexing project&#8221;.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Today&#8217;s libraries are taking every opportunity to use technology in order to provide more services for library users. And library officials say the Washington Parish library is among the leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Employees at the local library are utilizing today&#8217;s modern technology to spearhead an aggressive genealogy indexing project that will revolutionize the way people search for historical records in Washington Parish.<br \/>\nAdditionally, the library has begun offering wireless Internet service to patrons in Bogalusa and Franklinton, according to Gabriel Morley, library director.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are currently looking at everything we do to better understand how we might improve services while cutting costs,&#8221; Morley said. &#8220;Our goal is to offer more, for less. One way we&#8217;re doing this is through an extensive genealogy project headed up by Bonnie Branch.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The rest of the article is at the link above.  Good to hear a story like this, especially when many areas\/states are looking at cutting back access to certain information, for various reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edailynews.info\/articles\/2005\/07\/28\/news\/news14.txt\">The Bogalusa Daily News<\/a> reports on a library with an &#8220;aggressive genealogy indexing project&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}