From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Sep 10 17:28:33 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 k8ANSXjb023282; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 17:28:33 -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 k8ANSWVJ011590 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 17:28:32 -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 k8AKlKFI012759 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 16:47:20 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k8AKlKWV012758 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 16:47:20 -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 k8AKh9FI012684 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 16:43:09 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k8ANOBuc022778 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 17:24:11 -0600 X-Envelope-From: neal4@comcast.net Sun Sep 10 17:24:10 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 k8ANOAjb022769 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 17:24:10 -0600 Received: from sccrmhc15.comcast.net (sccrmhc15.comcast.net [63.240.77.85]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k8ANO9ba008867 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 17:24:09 -0600 Received: from wd080a (c-67-175-229-124.hsd1.il.comcast.net[67.175.229.124]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc15) with SMTP id <2006091023240401500ogq39e>; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 23:24:04 +0000 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.20060910182340.00a612f0@mail.comcast.net> X-Sender: neal4@mail.comcast.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 18:23:40 -0500 To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com From: Neal Underwood Cc: "Anelle Kloski" In-Reply-To: <200609101500.k8AF072t006949@lists5.rootsweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: I need advice on digitizing paper (#6 / ROOTS-L Digest V06 #394) Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter of August 20, 2006 has an article entitled "A Robust Document Management system for Genealogists" See: http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2006/08/a_robust_docume.html Unfortunately, the essential part of the article requires a paid substription, which I do not have. If anyone has access, there are a lot of us who would be interested in further information, particularly the name of the software and if anyone else has had experience with it. > >X-Message: #6 >Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 14:38:35 -0700 >From: "Anelle Kloski" >Subject: I need advice on digitizing paper documents > >I need advice from others who have tried digitizing family documents as well as pictures, etc. I have used PAF for some years, and it has a way to display pictures I have scanned. But I have many copies of wills, Revolutionary War records, deeds, etc. which are still on paper. I can scan them (or photograph them if they are too large to scan) and put them in the same computer directory as the family pictures. But what would be the best >way to link all these scanned images to the individuals they are for? I do like PAF, but perhaps there are some programs which deal with all the related paperwork in another way? My children are only somewhat interested >in genealogy at this point, and while I have given them CD's with family pictures and files, when I die the paper stuff is likely to get thrown out. What is the best way to link all this information together digitally, so it is compact enough to be retained easily? > >I have also sent this message to the GEN-COMP-TIPS list also, so this may be a duplicate for some of you. > >Anelle Kloski > >