Sometimes the search is only successful if the right
questions are asked. Discovered it can take a while to
ask the correct questions.
Started off ok. Right clicked with my mouse on the PDF
file for the AKA Membership. That highlighted
everything. Then I clicked on the highlighted stuff
and then clicked on Copy to Clipboard. Called up MS
Word, right clicked on the mouse and punched paste.
Saved the entire roster as a text file. That way, some
of the annoying code, which follows MS stuff around,
goes away. It is just a long interrupted list, but can
be copied and manipulated to whatever form one wants.
Most any text program could be used. The PDF file can
be saved and/or printed too.
If I was more familiar with Word, probably could have
searched using it. Chose to try the Search function
with the Adobe file. Typing IL for Illinois, with no
qualifications, got 1352 hits.
Checking Whole Words only for IL got 39 hits but only
showed the line with part of each person’s address. A
redeeming feature of that is that if one clicks on
what there is of that address, Acrobat Reader will
take them to the page and item on the larger file. It
wasn’t too hard to slide over to the text list and
copy that person’s data and paste it to a new file.
Once that was figured out, it was easy to search for
nearby killinuts in IN, MI, WI and IA. Had to do a
little “Mapquesting” in a couple of cases.
However, if the reasonably current state files were on
the home page, like they were a few years ago, that
list could have been copied, many of the parties
e-mailed and the others snail mailed in the time it
took me to fumble around with those files. If someone
has to do that every time they wish to represent their
affiliate or to look for people in an area they will
be visiting, then I think it would be worth the time
of the membership chair, once in a while, to sort
files by state and send a copy off to the AKA site
webmaster. That could also be a huge help to new AKA
members.
It may be that there is more on the new AKA site and
server than on the old one. If space or insertion time
is a significant issue, then leave it off.
By the way, a couple of individuals locally have
grumbled about either not getting a copy of the 2000
or 2004 AKA Roster or not being included there-in.
“Were you a current member when that was compiled?”
has been a fair question to ask before we went
roasting whoever was the current the membership chair.
The answer has always been the same. ;)
Membership is one of the maybe 6 or 7 busiest and
sometimes most thankless jobs in the AKA. I can guess
a a lot of what the membership chair (and publications
mailer) must have to do, in order to keep a constantly
evolving membership list current, and would like to
thank Dennis and Dick for doing what they do.
All the best!
Scott
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