I am trying to go both ways on archiving these old hard copies - digitizing
as well as paper print outs. Digital is wonderful, but I deem it to be
potentially "fragile".
If the home made CDs and DVDs have such a short projected life, who is going
to copy my files to new media every few years after I am unable. Who will
migrate this data to new formats as the digital world continues to change
almost daily? I'm not concerned about the public records, such as census
schedules, which become easier to access all the time, but rather the
one-of-a-kind personal items like old letters, bibles, family diaries, and
photographs. These hard copies will continue to fill my file cabinets.
In order to "back-up" these hardcopies, I share copies (digital & printed)
with any of my families that show an interest, as well as keeping the more
important originals in the bank safe deposit box ($120 per year) and use
photo copies in my home files.
My biggest problem at the present, is to find a way to make prints of the
old photos that I have obtained as digital images. Wally World just dashed
my plans to use their self service photo print shop ($1.52 for 8"x10") as
they say the photos are still copyright protected. The family photos I was
trying to print were taken from 1873 to about 1900. They said I must get a
copyright release from the photographer even though there is no evidence of
who that was.
I really do hate to print these at home as the useful life is not nearly as
long as those printed "professionally".
I DO love redundancy!
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "John S. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Why save copies of census records?
Suppose you have a magnificent genealogy file: all your ancestors going
back 300 years identified, described and sourced; all yours sources and
pictures scanned and digitized. You've stored everything electronically
and backed it up six times. Everything is organized and labelled
meticulously. Tomorrow you get hit by a bus. Your executor goes through
your belongings and finds this box marked "GENEALOGY" full of labelled
CD's and gives it your granddaughter. She has no interest in genealogy,
so puts the box in a garage storage cabinet. 50 years from now her son is
going through her belongings and finds the box. He's a genealogist. He's
excited! He has visions of all those brickwalls crashing down. He opens
the box. He has no idea what all these thin, shiny disks are. Maybe
early 21st century coasters?
It would be like finding a box of piano rolls and only having a DVD player
to play your music.
The fact is that 300 years ago, the best way to save data for posterity
was on paper, and that is still the best way today, unfortunately. Don't
throw away those paper files!
John S. Adams
Hermosa Beach, CA
"Just another day in paradise."
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 1:28 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Why save copies of census records?
Since I have been using Legacy to attach census images to people
appearing in the census, I am wondering if there is any longer a need for
a hard copy record. What do you think?
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