Digitization

To make local records accessible to a wider audience and to make it easier to look up information, we began a digitization project funded by a grant from the Albert Victor Ravenholt Fund in 2013.  Included was photographing the Luck Village tax records, the Luck Town minutes, finding and photographing vital records in the 1930s-1980s Luck Enterprise Newspaper, the West Denmark church and cemetery records, the St Peter Lutheran Cemetery records and others.  They can be searched using our computers at the Luck Museum.  

  We have a negative and slide scanner, a large flatbed and tray scanner, camera, and work with the Sterling Eureka and Laketown Historical Society's Obsolete Media Laboratory for other digitization efforts, including audio, video, paper, book, and other digitization.  You can visit their website at Obsolete Media Laboratory

October 23, 2023 we added a scanning camera to the Ravenholt Research Center -- a CZUR E16 Plus.   With it we can put a photo, a book, a document, scrapbook or item under the camera, press the foot pedal to get a rapid digital image.  The cost, $200, was from the Ravenholt Fund Grant money that helps support the Polk County Wisconsin Genealogical Society.   We tested it out and rapidly digitized  40 obituary clippings.   We put the images on our Google Cloud Drive where they can be viewed and searched.  View them at Obituaries