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RAIN 0505 Weekly Update: Archives (20)



The Times 4/22/02
Census website delayed again
By Richard Ford, Home Correspondent
THE relaunch of a website containing details of the 1901 census has been delayed again because testing of technical improvements is taking longer than expected.
Millions of amateur geneaologists are still waiting to gain access to the records almost five months after the website crashed within days of the details of 32 million people being made available to the public.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-275250,00.html


WIRED 4/25/02
Raising Alexandria Library
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52028,00.html


Cairo Times 4/29/02
Wired
With a new internet archive, the Alexandria Library keeps seeking to carve itself a niche
http://www.cairotimes.com/news/library.html



Windsor Locks Journal 4/29/02
Library proves useful to amateur genealogy club members
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=3982932&BRD=1651&PAG=461&dept_id=12343&rfi=6


Houston Chronicle 4/29/02
Battle waged over baseball memorabilia
Son contests dad's will benefiting Texas A&M
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/metropolitan/1387402


Houston Chronicle 5/1/02
A&M loses donor's gift in probate
Jury gives estate to family after finding that millionaire C.E. Olsen
didn't have mental capacity to legally alter his will
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/metropolitan/1391545


New York Times 4/29/02
Going Is Tough for Clinton Library Campaign, Backers Say
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/29/politics/29LIBR.html


Cecil Whig 4/29/02
'Lost' Jefferson letter found in Elkton
* Found by local historical society volunteer sorting
through papers
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=3983156&BRD=1973&PAG=461&dept_id=214849&rfi=6



Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 4/29/02
Finding a Home for the Stasi Files
By Mechthild Küpper
BERLIN. Twelve years are a long time in the life of a politician, but a short time when it comes to injustice and restitution, event and memory, trauma and forgetting.
Helmut Kohl, the chancellor of unity, won a fundamental decision in March from an appeals court, which ruled that the letter of the law governing the files of the former East Germany's secret intelligence service, the Stasi, stipulates that, as a person of public interest, he enjoys the same protection of his private sphere as any private citizen whom the Stasi spied upon. The ruling logically also applies to all other officeholders with him, whether good or evil, dead or alive, pillars or victims of the regime.
http://www.faz.com/IN/INtemplates/eFAZ/archive.asp?doc={FE4B243B-B06C-482F-86D8-BA3A9577BF24}



icBirmingham 4/30/02
McCartney halts Hey Jude lyrics sale
http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200nationalnews/page.cfm?objectid=11829867&method=full


Corpus Christi Caller-Times 5/1/02
$16,000 will grant better archive access
Library will preserve 19th century papers
By Tricia Schwennesen Caller-Times
History buffs will have greater access to the main Corpus Christi Library's collection of 19th century volumes thanks to a $16,659 state grant awarded Tuesday morning.
The money is part of a $2.9 million Loan Star Libraries grant given by the state Legislature to be administered by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and divided among 517 public libraries across the state this year.
http://www2.caller.com/ccct/local_news/article/0,1641,CCCT_811_1120101,00.html



NASA News Archives 5/1/02
NASA Helps Preserve Our Nation's History
A team of NASA scientists working at the request of the National Archives has determined why the United States' most important historical documents may be sealed in an atmosphere unhealthy to their future preservation.
Scientists from NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., presented their final report in Gaithersburg, Md., at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the organization contracted to provide encasements to the National Archives. They announced their findings on the composition of the atmosphere in the encasements of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
http://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/2002/200205019303.html



Courier & Press 5/1/02
New Harmony history expert Elliott dies
By PATRICIA SWANSON Courier & Press
Josephine Elliott, who devoted much of her life to documenting and preserving the historical papers of New Harmony, Ind., died Sunday, five days after her 90th birthday.
http://www.myinky.com/ecp/local_news/article/0,1626,ECP_745_1119719,00.html



St. Petersburg Times 5/2/02
Genealogy: Don't bypass
records for Civil War pensions
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/05/02/Floridian/Genealogy__Don_t_bypa.shtml


St. Augustine Record 5/02/02
Reel problems
Time destroyed much of Marineland's historic films
By PETER GUINTA
pguinta@staugustinerecord.com
MARINELAND -- The world's first dolphin movie, "Training Flippy," has turned into a pile of vile-smelling gunk, and other important films have also crumbled into oblivion here.
But that's not keeping Sandra Birnhak, a New York film archivist, from trying to save as many of the 300 films stored here as she can.
http://www.staugustine.com/stories/050202/new_682841.shtml



Manchester Times 5/3/02
Memorial to be held Saturday for Civil War steed 'Old
Isham'
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=4005087&BRD=1617&PAG=461&dept_id=160351&rfi=6


Christian Science Monitor 5/3/02
Uncovering the truth of Gulags
Documentary includes interviews with guards, survivors of Stalin's forced-labor camps
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0503/p17s01-altv.html



AP 5/3/02
UN: Iraq to Return Kuwait Archives
Fri May 3,11:09 PM ET
By GERALD NADLER, Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Iraq has said it will return Kuwait's national archives which were taken during its occupation of the country over a decade ago, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) said Friday.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020504/ap_on_re_mi_ea/un_iraq_kuwait_2



AP 5/4/02
Earhart Papers Donated to Purdue
Sat May 4, 4:49 AM ET
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - Relatives of vanished aviator Amelia Earhart donated nearly 500 of her personal papers and belongings to Purdue University, where she had been an instructor.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020504/ap_on_re_us/earhart_papers_1



News & Record 5/5/02
Man works to make history
5-5-02
By JIM SCHLOSSER, Staff Writer
News & Record
GIBSONVILLE -- Bob Adams appears so committed to the cause, no one wants
to play devil's advocate.
If his dream becomes real, it will amount to a historic achievement in itself.
Adams vows to stuff more than 200 years of history in a 3,000-square-foot
building that he intends to build with free labor and donations in his hometown of
Gibsonville.
http://www.news-record.com/news/local/gso/museum05.htm





Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Va