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Rike
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| Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 8:57 pm Post subject: Storing your Heritage |
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To be honest... nada... I have always thought about this issue... this in one of the reasons it took me so long to get a digital camera...
I come from the old generation that took time to buy nice photo album books place each one of them in order taken, even bought a nice wood truck to store them.
I come from the generation that at family gatherings we would spend hours going through the albums and listen to the folks reminiscing.
Though I think my line of generation ends with me, I have given thought about storage for my new digital photos and as this article suggest... I would definitely consider online storage, but not only one
Interesting article Rike, thanks!
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I store the original .jpg files on 3 different hard drives - one on my computer, one on an external hard drive, and one on Granny's computer's hard drive. I make a copy of the converted .jpg files to .tif files on 2 hard drives, and put the web photos on 2 hard drives, I make hard copy prints of family photos and some of my better shots of other stuff in album form using MS Publisher, although I am behind in doing that - too many photos!
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I remember finding old photos in the attic and this article made me a bit nostalgic! I think it is a good idea to make hard copies of family pictures - the new inks are supposed to last for 100 or so years. I don't believe that downloading old photos to a computer will ever be as exciting as finding real prints in an old shoebox - or even photo albums. But maybe that's just us, and what we're used to. It might be just as adventurous for our great grand-children to find a shoebox with instructions on where to find all the old photos in cyberspace and how to get access to our "old technology" when it will only be dimly remembered what ".jpg" or ".tiff" might signify!
Like owning a bunch of "reel-to-reel" music tapes and not having any access to a reel-to-reel player...
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It's funny this subject was brought up...I've been thinking of gathering my old photos and putting them on the computer...but will have to go through so many boxes to find them in the attic...Of course many shoe boxes too...
I think it would take me weeks to scan them as well...a nice idea when I can find the time...
Although it's very good for the new generation and those who have kept up with their family history...
Thanks Rike for thinking of this...and everyone who added their comments...
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Since my crash last year, I have saved all pictures to DVD/CD. I have also printed out sheets of wallet size photos to have a copy. What will happen with all of it, i have no idea. Guess it depends on my daughter.
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I don't have a digital camera and this thread made me wonder about soemthing.
When my sister was here for Thanksgiving we went thru mom's old pictures - from when she was young. There were many pictutres of people we did not know. Some of the pictures had names written on the back but many if them did not. And unfortunatley now, there is no one that can tell us who they were. This empahizes the need of recording who is in the photograph. Since writing on the back is not an option for digital photos what do you do?
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Fay, I use MS Publisher or Family Tree Maker to record the names and sometimes other information about the subjects in the photos. Here's an example from the photo album I made in Family Tree Maker picturing the Benton line of Granny's ancestors and their descendants. Granny was a Benton and is in the photo at the top right with all her brothers and sisters, second person in the back row from the left:
This is just one page - there are 14 pages in this album for the Benton line, beginning with Granny's great grandparents. Included in the album are many of their descendants (i.e., Granny's grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles and cousins as well as siblings and their offspring) down to the 6th generation. These photos are stored in plastic inserts in a binder.
Warning: photos need to dry for no less than 7 days (more is better) after printing before placing in plastic inserts.
I too, have many pictures of people that I have no idea who they are. You need to sit with your parents and grandparents before they are gone and get them to tell you about the people in their photos, and write on the back who they are and their relationship to you. Fortunately, I have been able to identify a few by process of elimination and a lot of research here and abroad. I got a picture of my grandfather on my mother's side from an aunt in Florida, who I found via the internet back in 2001. I also figured out which pictures were my 2 great-grandmothers, and figured out which was which from other pictures taken in France back around 1910. I just learned last year the name of my great-grandparents on my mother's side, again from research on the internet and writing abroad to the town hall in Italy where they came from.
Genealogy is a facinating adventure, and every year there has been something new on the internet that gave me another piece in the puzzle regarding my Italian ancestors. I have very good information and photos of my French ancestors, thanks in part to all my cousins in France, many of whom I have met in person, and to the wonderful record-keeping that the French do going back to the early 1600s.
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Repa,
So then do you save and backup the files with the notes attached instead of just the individual pictures themselves?
As I said I don't have a digital now - but just wonding in case I do at some time
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Yes, I have copies of all my Family Tree Maker files on 3 different hard drives, as well as my Publisher albums. In Family Tree Maker, the data is organized and you can print various types of reports to retrieve it, or print the Scrapbook, which contains the photos and data about each photo organized by page as you saw in my last post. I have 3 copies of everything as well as the backup files that Family Tree Maker generates when you close the program. Not likely that I will lose all 3 hard drives at the same time as 2 are in different computers, and one is an external hard drive.
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Repa,
You are so right everyone that can, should sit down with parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles or whoever can help identify people and get that information recorded. My sister, brother and I no longer have anyone left that can help with that task. All the older generation is gone. It is easy to keep putting things off until it is too late.
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Repa,
I too have Family Tree Maker. The scrapbook is priceless. You can do so much with that software. I also have back up CDs for it. Since my crash last year I have backed up evaerything so much I have to keep track of the back ups.
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Repa,
That is really fascinating and well thought out...It must have taken you some time to do all that work...Well worth it for the future generations...
Jane...keep track of those Cd's and scrapbooks...Your headed in the right direction and the kids will be thrilled in years to come that you have done this for them..
Fay...You might be able to figure out some of your ancestors with the help of your brother and sister...It also might be fun to start one even if you don't quite know who they all are right now...Maybe some day one of your nieces or nephews will be interested and find out more later on..
Take care everyone,
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