I second the notion of paper prints. With the obvious note that most (not all) common home computer ink jet printers have water soluble inks, easily ruined by a few drops of moisture. And some paper is fated to a quick yellow brittle demise (my "Montague" book of 1886 requires great care in paging - as well as knowing exactly where to terminate the earliest line - a classic in "imaginative mything the point."
For your definitive archival copy(s), pick a professional print shop and inquire about (specify) archival quality paper and inks. If they don't know treen from cloth or canvas from cotton, find someone who does. (My mother has a plaque with lines engraved in copper showing her "tree", but it does not contain dates, places, Notes, etc. And it's not updateable - there have been additions since.) As for Windows disappearing ... one can only hope and dream. Wm. H. ----- Original Message ----- From: malkajef To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 12:20 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDF files and Picture Center Thanks Dave. I see. I too transcribe the census portions pertinent to my research (for the same reasons), but I simply add that transcribed text to the "Source/Detail Text" for that Census event. I believe those source details should appear in reports, though I have not yet done much work with the reports. As you note, Census scans are far too small to be readable in reports and I therefore do not include them as images (but keep their paper prints and save their scanned images in a special directory that's available to future researchers). Thanks for the explanation. Incidentally, paper prints of all one's data is extremely important. The tools to "read" many of today's computer files may no longer exist 50 years from now rendering them useless. Think of the obsolete diskette readers, VHS tapes, etc. On the other hand the tool to read printed pages (our eyes) will hopefully be here for many future generations. I consider genealogy software as a temporary tool to organize data, not as a tool to preserve it for future generations which may no longer even have Windows operating systems. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Keeney To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 10:50 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] PDF files and Picture Center I'm not Keith but I'll answer also. Yes, I've created pdf forms for each census and I transcribe each of the jpg images. The advantage to me is that others can see my interpretation of the sometimes (mostly) unreadable scans. A lot of people that view my genealogy are not interested in spending hours on an image interpreting it. When they question my transcription they can always go to the actual image file. I used to do it mainly for my own edification since lots of pictures (jpg and/or pdfs) didn't work very well for me in Legacy reports but now that I have a TNG web site it's ideal for posting both and I therefore need to attach my files to people, families, and events. It's so much more time consuming to do it with the picture gallery I was hoping to be able to use the Picture Center. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of malkajef Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 6:40 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDF files and Picture Center Keith My census records come as jpg images. When you say yours are pdf files, do you mean the transcript you typed of the listings or the actual census page converted into pdf format? Is there an advantage in having them as pdf files? Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: GeoSci To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 6:38 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDF files and Picture Center Dave, Believe it or not - attach it as a SOUND FILE (change the file extension to .pdf). The file will be there - and viewable if you click on it. I have done this with many .pdf files of census records. Keith -- Website: http://home.comcast.net/~geosci64 EMail: GeoSci64 at gmail dot com McCain-McKane-O'Kane DNA Group 1 On 12/26/06, Dave Keeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there anyway to attach .pdf files via the Picture Center like you can for .jpg? *** Give the gift of Legacy for the holidays! Order online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/Redirect/Store-Legacy.asp or call 1-800-753-3453. *** Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp *** Give the gift of Legacy for the holidays! 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