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 resolution and tossed. Negatives, especially color, do not hold up very long. Black and white negatives seem to last forever even ones that are about 100 years old.
I still have several hundred negatives that need scanning so I know that daunting feeling because I keep putting it off. Scanning negatives is very boring and time consuming because you can't do much else while you're doing it. Also, if you have any old audio recordings I suggest converting all of them to digital. I did that for a collection of about 50 hours of audio interviews done back in the 1970's and noticed that the tapes were starting to degrade. They lasted nearly 30 years so I guess I can't complain. Bill Boswell -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 7:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures Speaking of pictures... In the Marriage Record Webinar, Geoff pretty much said that he attaches a photo (scan of a document) to every source he does. I have been thinking about this. Right now I don't have any scans in my file and I have been working in Legacy for 6 years (FTM before that). Since census records are readily available, I just cite them. I do copy marriage, death, military, land records etc. and I keep those in binders (I have a binder for each type of source and then I file them alphabetically). I am trying to figure out the wisdom of scanning everything into Legacy. I would love to hear your opinions. I must say thinking about going back and scanning everything is rather daunting. michele Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
