Re: [Dorset] The future of family history digital recordings?

2024-04-22 Thread Peter Merchant
On 22/04/2024 17:15, Alex wrote: If I may echo Ralph, don't do anything to the originals. If you decide to mark up the image in any way make sure you do it on a copy. Agreed. For people who turn up regularly in photos another tedious option would be to make a rogue's gallery of the usual

Re: [Dorset] The future of family history digital recordings?

2024-04-22 Thread Alex
If I may echo Ralph, don't do anything to the originals. If you decide to mark up the image in any way make sure you do it on a copy. For people who turn up regularly in photos another tedious option would be to make a rogue's gallery of the usual suspects: have a folder of cropped images

Re: [Dorset] The future of family history digital recordings?

2024-04-22 Thread Peter Merchant
My Brother agrees: Plain Text, and addressing people by position in row. Though my other brother says that XnView is simple to add numbers on people, which I remember from when I used microsoft. Peter Thanks for your thoughts. On 22/04/2024 12:47, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, The

Re: [Dorset] The future of family history digital recordings?

2024-04-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, > The thought is that they wouldn't mean anything to anybody in the 22nd > century unless I left some notes in each folder. I don't intend to > say what each photo was, but more the occasion of the photos. The > question is, what format should I use for these text files - Plain > Text

[Dorset] The future of family history digital recordings?

2024-04-22 Thread Peter Merchant
My brothers and I have been saving our family photos on a Nextcloud server maintained by my nephew.  Thethought is that they wouldn't mean anything to anybody in the 22nd century unless I left some notes in each folder. I don't intend to say what each photo was, but more the occasion of the