think it comes from growing
up with insane and/or disorganized family members.
From: Kathy Meyer [mailto:kmeyer2...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 4:27 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures
How interesting all of these opinions are! I am
them deteriorating.
>
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> From: Paul Gray [mailto:grayp...@telus.net]
> Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 3:16 PM
> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
> Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures
>
> John,
>
> While I agree that digital technologi
et them converted these days.
> I have a bunch of them deteriorating.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Paul Gray [mailto:grayp...@telus.net]
> Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 3:16 PM
> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
> Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures
>
> John,
>
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From: Paul Gray [mailto:grayp...@telus.net]
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 3:16 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures
John,
While I agree that digital technologies do become obsolete, I don't see paper
as a particul
ohn Carter [mailto:a...@wizardanswers.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 2:29 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures
Unless you and your descendants continuously stay current with changes in
digital storage technology, your digital data will eventually become
inacce
nds
and family that live far away.
Certainly, paper can be one of those multiple backups, but I'm not sure it's
the most secure.
Paul
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From: John Carter [mailto:a...@wizardanswers.com]
Sent: May-28-11 12:29 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject
And when documents are that valuable, it is important they are handled as
little as possible. You may have only one original, but once they are
digitised they can be viewed time and time again. Hence why most
repositories are trying to digitise as much as possible. It's almost
impossible for the st
Unless you and your descendants continuously stay current with changes in
digital storage technology, your digital data will eventually become
inaccessible.
Once upon a time, the 8" floppy disk was the commercial standard for
digital storage and backup. Do you know anyone who has the equipment to
I agree with you James. There doesn't seem any real justification for
keeping paper documents when it's not eco-friendly to use all that paper and
most things now can be stored digitally, unless of course they're originals
but even these can be scanned. Just in case anyone wasn't aware, as I recall
I've been working on this hobby seriously for about 1 1/2 years now.
At the time, I read about organization, and most of the articles I
found were how to keep binders. This is the computer age, and I'm a
computer guy, so took some ideas from the binder based articles, but
scan and organize all my
Michele:
I understand the daunting feeling. That's why I scanned all my documents and
photos years ago. I keep very few documents unless they are originals or have
some historic value. All copies get scanned then tossed out. Even old
negatives and photographs are scanned at the highest reso
Group@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures
Michele,
Just because one can do something in Legacy, and/or somebody uses a certain
facility, does not mean that we all should adopt that method.
As it happens I do link images to all my sources, but I do not also keep hard
copi
From: Ron Ferguson
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 8:53 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures
Michele,
Just because one can do something in Legacy, and/or somebody uses a certain
facility, does not mean that we all should adopt that method.
As it happens
Michele,
Just because one can do something in Legacy, and/or somebody uses a certain
facility, does not mean that we all should adopt that method.
As it happens I do link images to all my sources, but I do not also keep
hard copies. I use this method so that I can rapidly check a census without
h
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