Bernard Bailey, a volunteer at the Davenport Public Library, recently celebrated his 2,000th volunteer hour<\/em>.<\/p>\nMuch of those 2,000 hours was spent indexing by hand, the various marriages and funerals in 1950s newspapers, for entry in a genealogy database that will soon be available for genealogists to use, both off and online.<\/p>\n
We need more people like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a short article published in the Quad-City Times<\/a> (Davenport, Iowa), there is mention of Bernard Bailey, a volunteer at the Davenport Public Library, recently celebrated his 2,000th volunteer hour<\/em>.<\/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\/97"}],"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=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}