The Ontario Genealogical Society is pleased to announce that
we have been granted funding by the Ontario Trillium Foundation to begin Phase
2 of our Keeping and Valuing Ontario’s Heritage Project. The funding consists
of $156,000 over two years and will allow us to continue to assist Ontario heritage
organization in scanning their materials and making them available to
researchers.
Phase 1 began in Fall
2008 with the aim to do the following:
- provide a digitized version of one-of-a-kind records, increasing security
- allow small organizations access to digitizing services they otherwise could not afford
- increase access to records
significant to
- allow an income stream to heritage organizations if they wish
Since
then we have successfully joined with several Ontario heritage organizations to digitize
their records and make them available online through a revenue generating
program. We have launched a beta version of The Ontario Name Index (TONI) as the
main access point to the Pay-Per-View database. The information available
through Pay-Per-View allows access to the history of the people of this
province.
Phase
2 seeks to continue to support the preservation of Ontario heritage materials through
digitization by adding to the data available on this system and expanding our affiliations
to include new heritage organizations.
We will improve and expand on TONI while
creating new indexing systems where necessary.
We
will also create and launch a more user friendly search interface for TONI and
Pay- Per-View to ensure that researchers can find and access their information
with ease.
OGS gratefully acknowledges the Ontario Trillium Foundation for their strong support of this project and appreciates their ongoing efforts to support the growth and vitality of communities across the
