From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun May 29 14:10:50 2005 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.16.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j4TKAo2X027478; Sun, 29 May 2005 14:10:50 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4TKAovN032248 for ; Sun, 29 May 2005 14:10:50 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4TIo1ei014479 for ; Sun, 29 May 2005 14:50:02 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id j4TIo1UB014478 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 29 May 2005 14:50:01 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.18.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4TImpei014463 for ; Sun, 29 May 2005 14:48:51 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id j4TK9TPu026976 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 29 May 2005 14:09:29 -0600 X-Envelope-From: mscheffl@twcny.rr.com Sun May 29 14:09:29 2005 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.16.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j4TK9T2X026967 for ; Sun, 29 May 2005 14:09:29 -0600 Received: from ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com [24.24.2.56]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4TK9SvN032082 for ; Sun, 29 May 2005 14:09:29 -0600 Received: from 1070n (cpe-24-92-248-107.twcny.res.rr.com [24.92.248.107]) by ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id j4TK9PIV017439; Sun, 29 May 2005 16:09:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <027e01c5648a$4ebd7230$6701a8c0@1070n> From: "MScheffler" To: , References: <85.2891f505.2fcb5225@aol.com> Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 16:09:23 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.38 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: Courthouse Records You can take pictures of the books with a digital camera, but you do need a steady hand. I regularly use a 4 megapixal camera in our local library in lieu of making photocopies of books that are too old to be photocopied. Generally the resulting images are quite readable. With my camera, I usually have the flash turned on, but experiment both ways to see what you get. With very large books, you may need to put them on the floor and stand over them to get the whole page in one shot. You may want to take more than one shot of each page, and you might want to stop and check the pictures on your laptop if you are unsure of what you are getting. I do not know about today's hand scanners. I never had very good luck with an earlier generation of hand scanners. I wholly recommend using the digital camera. Margaret Scheffler