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Family History Project: The Harris Family History CD

Status: Complete.

The Harris Family History CD is a project that took nearly five years of gathering stories, pictures, and audio clips, and digitizing them into a format that could be easily viewed and searched on a computer.

Version 1.0 is complete, and was mailed out to all our grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins on February 28, 2005. Please email me if you're interested in a copy.


Russ E. Harris, Sr.

Family History Project: The Russ Harris, Live! Transcription Project (partial)

Status: Incomplete.

The Russ Harris, Live! project was completed in 2003, and many of the stories are good enough to have in text format, so we're going to transcribe the whole thing.

We need all the help we can get! If you'd like to help, simply email me. I'll assign you an 8-minute chunk that you can download. Type in the text exactly as it was said (example) into an email and send it back to me. When it's complete, we'll distribute the text copy to everyone, and it will appear on future versions of the Family History CD. Thanks!

Page Assigned to Status
1-01 Katy Complete, 3/16/05
1-02 Betsy Incomplete, 3/14/05
1-03 Ashley Incomplete, 3/14/05
1-04 Katy Complete, 3/21/05
1-05 Katy Complete, 4/13/05
1-06 Ally Petersen Complete, 1/5/06
1-07 Ally Petersen Complete, 1/26/06
1-08 Ally Petersen Complete, 3/03/06
1-09 Ally Petersen incomplete, 3/05/06
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Family History Project: The Blue Book Transcription Project (partial)

Status: Complete.

Leona Harris Mero, with whom we share a common ancestor, has put together a compilation of information on some of our more distant Harris ancestors, from Joseph Green Harris, Jr., back to John Harris.

As part of this project we've transcribed the pages of interest into digital form, so the information can be easily searched, copied, and reprinted.

Thanks to Shelly, Ashley, and Betsy for helping!


Family History Project: The Red Book Transcription Project (partial)

Status: Complete.

In 1985, Aunts Afton and Isabelle completed a compilation of stories and pictures relating to the Smith family. This project transcribed into the computer any and all stories pertaining to Louise S. Jones and her direct ancestors, and incorporated them into the Family History CD project that was several years in the making, and finally released on 2/28/05. This was the last major remaining body of writings to be incorporated into the FHCD project.

Thanks to all who helped!


Family History Project: The History of Louise S. Jones Transcription Project

Grandma

Status: Complete.

In 1985, Grandma Jones finished work on her life story for the family history book that Afton and Isabelle were putting together. She detailed many memories of her childhood, and of her marriage and children.

Now, in the computer age we have the ability to easily store and copy electronic copies of important documents like this, as well as the ability to search through and reprint them. Thanks to Betsy Harris, Scott Harris, Kathy Jones, Laura Jones, Wendy Hargrave, Natasha Jones, Jolena Jones, Joshua Jones, Heather Jones, Shelly Harris, David Jones, Ashley Harris, and Jeanine Jones, the entire 52 page story has now been entered into the computer, and is available. Requests can be made directly from me.


Grandpa

Family History Project: Russell Harris, Live!, recorded interview and conversion to DVD

Here is the status of this project:

Project Status - DONE

Task Status
Record interviews with Russ Done, 3/15 & 3/29/03
Research DVD conversion options Done
Select company to do conversion (MesaDVD) Done, 4/17
Deliver originals Done
Receive draft DVD masters Done, 5/2
Pay for part 1 of the process Done, 5/2
Select disc 1 chapter breakpoints Done, 5/4
Select disc 2 chapter breakpoints Done, 5/18
Select disc 3 chapter breakpoints Done, 5/23
Select disc 4 chapter breakpoints Done, 5/30
Select disc 5 chapter breakpoints Done, 5/30
Select disc 6 chapter breakpoints Done, 5/30
Purchase DVD duplication software Done, 5/16
Verify that duplication can be done on available hardware Done, 5/27
Generate menu graphics Done, 6/19
Send chapter information to MesaDVD Done, 6/19
Send menu graphics to MesaDVD Done, 6/19
Receive 5 final master discs Done, 7/5
Purchase 2-disc DVD cases Done, 8/10
Generate cover inserts Done, 7/19
Print cover inserts Done, 7/19
Trim inserts Done, 7/20
Purchase 150 + 10 blank DVD-R media, Maxell/TDK brand
see this site for details on why we're choosing Maxell and TDK DVD-Rs
Done, 8/2
Duplicate disc sets (25 sets, 150 discs) Done, 11/10
Distribute sets Done.

Family History Project: The Naval History of Russell Harris, Sr. Transcription Project

Status: Complete.