Historical Records Digitization Services Grants

Description of grant program: Historical Records Repositories and Local Governments may apply for digitization services, not cash awards.

Eligibility: Organizations that care for historical records and provide public access to those records on a regularly scheduled basis including Historical Records Repositories (historical society, library, museum, private university, or similar organization) and Local Governments (county, municipality,  court system, board of education, or local authority) are eligible to apply.

Eligible Records: Preference will be given to records of high genealogical value. Other historical record types will be considered as part of a project where the majority of the records have genealogical value.
All records that are proposed for digitization must be ready to scan at the time of application or must include a timeline for them to be ready to scan by December 1, 2009.

Amount of services available for the grant program: Applicants who request digitization services up to $10,000. The number of awards will be determined by the quality of the applications received. Paper records can be digitized for 10 cents an image; microfilm collections can be digitized for 3 cents an image.

Deadline To Apply For Grant: September 1, 2009.

All grant projects will run for one year. 

Application Form and Guidelines: The application form and guidelines are available on-line or may be mailed to you. The application is a PDF form that can be filled out, printed, and mailed. It cannot be submitted on-line. To view and complete, the form requires the free Adobe reader. If you do not have this reader, you may download from Adobe. You may also request the guidelines and application forms mailed to you.

Additional information or to request forms: Contact Elizabeth Barr at 678-364-3718 or ebarr@sos.state.ga.us.