From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Sep 10 10:54:57 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k8AGsvjb032715; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 10:54:57 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k8AGsvIa020222 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 10:54:57 -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 k8AEDlFI010765 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 10:13:47 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k8AEDl1S010764 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 10:13:47 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k8ADXNFI010626 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 09:33:28 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k8AGENxR028179 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 10:14:23 -0600 X-Envelope-From: iowagob1@juno.com Sun Sep 10 10:14:23 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k8AGENjb028170 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 10:14:23 -0600 Received: from m6.nyc.untd.com (m6.nyc.untd.com [64.136.22.69]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k8AGE5nH025642 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 10:14:06 -0600 Received: from m6.nyc.untd.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by m6.nyc.untd.com with SMTP id AABCSJQP8ABJ5AHA for (sender ); Sun, 10 Sep 2006 09:13:50 -0700 (PDT) X-UNTD-OriginStamp: RU5GAULu9fXrom734xUanIxF1tcgLOqY/moJHBykhvuDphPGmHS3PA== Received: (from iowagob1@juno.com) by m6.nyc.untd.com (jqueuemail) id LZWW5FHA; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 09:13:15 PDT To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:12:58 -0400 Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] I need advice on digitizing paper documents Message-ID: <20060910.121259.2784.0.IowaGob1@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 4.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Juno-Att: 0 X-Juno-RefParts: 0 From: iowagob1@juno.com X-ContentStamp: 12:6:3364921612 X-MAIL-INFO: 453f83abdab7c3f317935b83938e6a4f6a0f4ea38bce X-UNTD-Peer-Info: 127.0.0.1|localhost|m6.nyc.untd.com|iowagob1@juno.com X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Annette & all, For years I've been scanning all types of things and photograph- ing people, headstones, memorabilia, even copying photos, paintings, pages from reference books etc. I use Family Tree Maker (FTW.) I store all of these digitized items in the scrapbook for the person, or family of the person the item pertains to. Copies of census pages for each family are in their scrap- book. Using this method I can quickly locate the person, go to the scrapbook and either print a copy or copy and paste the item into my graphics editor program (Photo Impact.) From their I can man- ipulate it and print or save again. My new computer has two monitors so I can open two FTW databases and cut and paste from one scrapbook to the other. I also backup my FTW databases and the original scans to 2 DVDs, one of which I send to my daughter in another state. I set my digital camera to one resolution below the best and my scanner to 300 dpi. I use two graphics formats depending upon whether I would be able to "do over" or not. When I'm at Aunt Alices' house I know that a lot of her stuff will be discarded or given to her sons who have no interest and will probably be lost. Those items I save in BMP format at 300 dpi. Other things I scan at 200 dpi and save in JPG 90% resolution. I scan only in color or grey scale, never black and white. The only items that are black and white are downloaded census pages. This has worked well for me over the years. Good luck, Jerry Hale Deltona, FL On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 14:38:35 -0700 "Anelle Kloski" writes: > I need advice from others who have tried digitizing family documents > as well as pictures, etc.