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State Agency Databases Activity Report 7/17/2011

VOLUNTEER AND ORPHAN NEWS

This week the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project welcomed Brenda Hemmelman as our latest volunteer documents specialist. Brenda has taken over the care and feeding of the South Dakota project page.

Brenda has not only fixed all of the broken links on the South Dakota page, but has also added a number of new databases including the Cemetery Record Search, which is considered to be a great resource for pre 1940s burials.

In other volunteer news, we are currently in discussions with a few people over the future of the California page and we hope to have it adopted out in the next week.

That leaves the following pages as orphans waiting for a volunteer government documents specialist:

Connecticut
District of Columbia
Illinois
Indiana
Mississippi
New Jersey
New Mexico
Tennessee
Texas
Vermont
West Virginia
Wisconsin

If you’re interested in one of the above states, check out our volunteer guide and then send me an e-mail if you’d like to adopt one of the above states.

WIKI ACTIVITY

See our last seven days of activity at http://tinyurl.com/statedbs for a blow by blow description of changes to the page. Here are a few highlights:

Nebraska – Extensive link fixing.

DATABASES ADDED

Arkansas

State Vehicle Inventory Search – Searchable by agency, vehicle type, plate number, and most common reported use.

Delaware

Delaware Environmental Navigator (DEN) – “Will allow the public to view all facility information, violations, enforcement actions and monitoring results pertaining to Air Quality, Waste Water, Water Supply, Hazardous Waste, Hazardous Waste Annual Reports, Solid Waste, Contaminated Site Cleanup, Underground Tanks and Vapor Recovery, Above Ground Tanks, Septic Permits, Wetlands, Ambient Water Monitoring Data and Corrective Action Sites.”

Nebraska

Nebraska Memories – Images of Nebraska-related historical and cultural heritage materials.

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