From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Sep 11 08:45:09 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 k8BEj9jb027154; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:45:09 -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 k8BEj8iK008131 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:45:08 -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 k8BC3tFI015337 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:03:55 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k8BC3tws015336 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:03:55 -0400 Received: from smtp.hydroottawa.com (HydroOttawa-gw.telecomottawa.net [142.46.196.98]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k8B9txFI014971 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 05:55:59 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: [ROOTS-L] I need advice on digitizing paper documents Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:37:02 -0400 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [ROOTS-L] I need advice on digitizing paper documents thread-index: AcbUu5IxBlfiAmK0StWhr9+EwpcXsQA4bPhA From: "Prytula, Karen" To: "Anelle Kloski" Cc: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by roots-l.rootsweb.com id k8B9txFI014971 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com X-Spam-Score: 1.31 (*) BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 I still use the old file cabinet system... Each person - not family - but each person in my family tree has there own file....and any bit of information pertaining to them goes in that file. If the paper lists names of others then I photocopy it, so that each person's file has the same copy in it. Don't knock the file cabinet...when the computer crashes, or the power is out...it still works. Photos, photocopies, originals, maps, spreadsheets, charts, graphs, and anything that can be printed from your computer can go into a file... Of course I still use the computer...I use the word doc. to tie everything together...The bio on the first page, birth registration on the next page, pics on the next...etc. You can make a word.doc look like a fancy web page., then I print it all out and put it in the file as well, where all the originals also are. I would be interested in hearing Gemp-comp-tips has to say. What are you're thoughts on laminating documents? I have a laminator but have not used in for my genealogy habit yet. Karen Prytula -----Original Message----- From: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com [mailto:roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Anelle Kloski Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 5:39 PM To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] 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