At the Redlands Genealogical Society meeting today, I told them about the
Ryerson statistical achievements and they all seemed suitably impressed J
Had a couple of people come up to me at the A/tea break to ask about our
site, too.
Nobody volunteered to do indexing though L
Dawn Montgomery
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[mailto:ryerson_index-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Graham
Sent: Tuesday, 9 October 2018 11:40 PM
To: ryerson_index@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ryerson_index] Happy Birthday To Us!
I've just posted this message on our front page, and on our facebook page.
John
Twenty years ago today, on Saturday 10 October 1998, Ryerson was born. It
didn't have such a catchy name then, being known as the Sydney DPS Indexing
Project, and only included the Sydney Morning Herald and the Daily
Telegraph. These papers were indexed by just seven indexers - six doing one
day each week of the SMH and one doing the DT.
Importantly, it was decided that the site would be free to access, and 20
years on, it remains free, supported by generous donations from our users.
A look at the stats on our Update History page shows just how far we have
come in 20 years, to now have 6.75 million records from 343 different
papers. It took us almost 7 years to reach one million records, another 4
years to add the second million, but since then we have consistently added
an average of a million records every two years.
We are particularly pleased with the fact that more than 4 million of these
records are not to be found elsewhere on the web - they relate to deaths
occurring in the past 30 years, which are embargoed by all the state BDM
websites.
The 150 or so people at Ryerson (indexers, looker-uppers, and data
gatherers) are all very proud to be associated with a site which has become
one of the 'go-to' sites for Australian genealogical research.
We all hope that you continue to have success in your research, aided by The
Ryerson Index.
The Ryerson Committee and Members
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