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Recorder outlines county records digitization using preservation fund revenue

3340127 · May 16, 2025
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Jefferson County recorder reported a multi-stage digitization effort for historical records funded by the preservation fund, using revenue generated by an online access system.

Jefferson County’s recorder reported an ongoing project to digitize historical records using the county’s preservation fund and revenue from an online document-access service.

At the May 1 commission meeting, the recorder said an initial contractor visit had allowed staff to collect and ship records and that the first round of scanning will bring records “caught up from 1993 till 1889,” with a later round expected to extend the archive back to 1812. The recorder said some…

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