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One of the things we do at the ROC (Records Operation Center for those of you that haven't figured it out) is "Zoning".  That's where we look at newspaper pages that have birth, marriage, or death related articles in them and we highlight them so the information can be extracted.  After we've been doing some hardcore indexing or PPA's (Post Production Audits) and we're tired of that, we will do some zoning for a while.  Looking at old newspapers and extracting the information there is pretty interesting and sometimes funny and helps relieve the stress of a hard indexing session.  Sometimes the articles are very interesting.  Recently I was reading articles about Hitler's butler and how he disposed of his and Eva Braun's bodies after they committed suicide.  First hand articles/interviews but I only was able to read the first installment.  I've read some pretty interesting articles from the late 1800s and around WWII.  fascinating stuff.  Oh, and actually got some work done too.

At any rate, on this day we had training from a Sister Trotter from Salt Lake main office, called the TROC or Temple ROC.

Sister Trotter is, maybe, 5 feet tall and soft spoken.  But very knowledgeable on Zoning.  We were able to ask questions and get answers that we need to have answered.

She had both a morning and an afternoon training session.  You can see the stand in front so you have a rough idea of how tall she is.  This, by the way, is our main meeting room for our twice daily devotionals and any main training that wwe need to do.

 

This is a pict of one of my monitors zoned for obituaries (we all have two monitors to work with).  Note that it's all green as deaths are colored green.  This is taken from the Boston Globe and it's in about 1924 so there are a lot of obituaries.  Once they are correctly marked, the data is sent to extraction so it can be sent on for people to use the data in the genealogy.  In this case, I am checking someone else's work then making changes/corrections and submitting the batch.

 

This is an interesting picture of how our ancestors are helping us do this work.  There are a lot of people here that believe they feel them guiding our efforts as we do the work we do.  

A couple of days later and we are off to Salt Lake for Kevin/Karla's wedding.  That would be next....

 

Here we are "lounging" at our workstations...now, if I can only get that left eye to stay open during the day....sigh.