This also caught my eye.
Thank you. Digitizing historical documents and records and putting them on the internet is a great boon to historians and folks with historical interests. Unfortunately it is not as easily done as some folks think. After the initial digitization, the tifs must be checked for clarity, combined into pdf files, made word searchable, and given meta tags to make them come up on an internet search. And finally get a website up and running to which the historical records are posted. And it takes money to pay for this.
thus patience should be given to those who have the records to get them on the web. I’m just not speaking from theory on this, but what I have personal experience in trying to accomplish.