{"id":304,"date":"2013-01-31T12:24:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T19:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/norsky.net\/TerisBlog\/?p=304"},"modified":"2013-01-31T12:24:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T19:24:28","slug":"here-comes-the-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"Here Comes the Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/norsky.net\/TerisBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/013113_1924_HereComesth1.png\" alt=\"\" \/>Long ago (it seems long ago to me) I began scanning my old snapshots of cemetery markers. My dad and I took these in the days before digital cameras. I had barely begun this project when life got in the way. Now I am ready to work on it again, so I got out the box of snapshots. It is a mess. I know we scanned some of them, but which ones? Getting this under control will require a multi-step approach.\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Sorting<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>First I need to identify which snapshots have been digitized and which have not. I will put the prints of those already done into an archival-quality album and insert the rest after I scan them.\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Creating the Database<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now that I attended the presentation by Nancy and Gary Ratay on organizing digital images, I have learned how to sort the photos in a way that makes sense to me. I plan to index them by both name (married and maiden for women) and cemetery. We already have quite a few digital images of cemetery markers that just need to be reorganized this way. To digitize those photos that have not yet been done, we have a large flatbed scanner I can use.\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Posting<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Once I have everything nicely organized into digital folders that I can actually find again in the future, I want to post these images as exhibits in <em>The Master Genealogist <\/em>software program I use and on the website. My husband\/tech advisor has posted some of our images on FindAGrave.com, and I want to post the rest there, too. When I am ready, he will help me learn to do it myself. The images will be accessible to any descendant working on the same lines.\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Documenting<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The key for me is always written documentation. How the process works. Where to find things. Keywords used in indexing. I plan to create written documentation for all of this as I go. Then, as I acquire more photos, it will be easy to follow the same steps to insert them into my existing system. I will be able to find any image quickly. And someday, a descendant can take it over. He\/she will not need to dig it all out of a cardboard box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long ago (it seems long ago to me) I began scanning my old snapshots of cemetery markers. My dad and I took these in the days before digital cameras. I had barely begun this project when life got in the way. Now I am ready to work on it again, so I got out the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}