One of my favorite local sources for genealogy information is the former black-owned and operated newspaper, The Nashville Globe. It was founded in 1906 and ran until 1960. Over the past several years I’ve extracted data from the paper and posted it on my blog, Black Nashville.
Soon after starting that blog, I learned that the Nashville Public Library had an index of sorts available on one if their in-house computers. Local professor and lawyer Lewis Lasker, created this massive project where he extracted names and full articles from the paper. It truly is an amazing feat.
Me being me though, I’m not content with it living on a local computer in the public library and I emailed Mr. Lasker asking if I could have his permission to turn it into an online database. I spoke to him today and he agreed; I’m now ecstatic! We are planning to meet soon to work out the details, but I’m hoping that we’ll have an initial version of the site up an running sometime this summer.
More to come later….