Can anyone tell me the best way to move names and notes from one file to another? I am using version 8.0 (have ordered v. 9.0). I have two files and for some reason I didn't want to merge them. I think I had it in my mind that the 'merge' feature had a problem, so I dragged and dropped the oldest ancestor and all of his relatives into the other file. It did not move the notes. Do I have to copy/paste the notes separately for each person? Thank you Kathy McKellep-Lathrop

Maxine, If you are trying to "unwind" it on the floppy there isn't enough disk space. It tried to create the GED file but couldn't and that's why there is a GED file name on the floppy. It is necessary to copy the EXE file to your hard drive and open it there. Be sure to put the EXE in a folder where you wish to use the GED file. Otherwise it will be necessary to remember where you "unwound" the file. Once the GED file has been created it will be possible to import it into a FO database. Remember to import the GEDCOM into a new empty database so that there will be no problems that may trash your existing database(s). Frank ----- Original Message ----- From: "MMW" <genbug@olypen.com> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 2:09 PM Subject: [FO] Importing from Ancestry.com > Hello, > I just downloaded a file from Ancestry.com to a 3 1/2" floppy. It > was named 14236.exe. It said it was a self extracting utility. > I got the message-PKSFX-(E50) Disk full, file: 14236.GED. > > I cannot get it to import in FO8. > > Isn't it called .GED now and how do I import it? > Thanks. > Maxine > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > Family Origins GenForum - http://genforum.genealogy.com/fo/ > Tech Support Knowledge Base http://www.familyorigins.com/support/ > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > >

First you will have to click on the file and extract it, saving to your hard disk, then import it into FO. Carolyn, just an old Texas Gal. Researching: Knight/Byles/Walton/Espy/Smith/Little/Marshall/ Waters/Garner/Martin/Foote/Berryman/Colclough/ Rogers/Grigsby/Blanton/Tate/McGuffey/Hobbs/ Schuenemann/Latinsky/Altman/Gambel/Sinz & Gross WebSite: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cgetting/ WebSite: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cgetting/familygroups/ > -----Original Message----- > From: MMW [mailto:genbug@olypen.com] > Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 1:10 PM > To: FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [FO] Importing from Ancestry.com > > > Hello, > I just downloaded a file from Ancestry.com to a 3 1/2" floppy. It > was named 14236.exe. It said it was a self extracting utility. > I got the message-PKSFX-(E50) Disk full, file: 14236.GED. > > I cannot get it to import in FO8. > > Isn't it called .GED now and how do I import it? > Thanks. > Maxine > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > Family Origins GenForum - http://genforum.genealogy.com/fo/ > Tech Support Knowledge Base http://www.familyorigins.com/support/ > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! >

Hello, I just downloaded a file from Ancestry.com to a 3 1/2" floppy. It was named 14236.exe. It said it was a self extracting utility. I got the message-PKSFX-(E50) Disk full, file: 14236.GED. I cannot get it to import in FO8. Isn't it called .GED now and how do I import it? Thanks. Maxine

Thanks, Jesse! I don't think there would be any trouble deleting them using windows explorer, accessed directly or from My Computer. My point about changing their size was to avoid scanning a second time. It may be that scanning a second time correctly could turn out to be the quicker way. But I think not. Could depend on familiarity with the particular graphics program. John Ballard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jesse Davis" <jespat@LCworkshop.com> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 6:12 AM Subject: Re: [FO] Fwd: OT Scanner Problem > If she cannot delete them any other way, would it be possible to look > them up in "My Computer" and delete them from there? > JD > > | Also changing from bmp to jpg format will help a lot. What she has > now can > | be reduced in size with a graphics program. I do not mean the size > of the > | picture in inches, but rather the size in dots to match her > printer, or even > | a newer one. > | > John > | Ballard > | > | - Original Message ----- > | From: "Linda Scheimann" <linda514@ivillage.com> > | To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> > | Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 3:48 PM > | Subject: [FO] Fwd: OT Scanner Problem > | > | > | > Could someone on the list please direct me to resources > concerning scanner > | and memory problems? This message is from a relative who is working > with me > | to preserve a 100 year old photograph album. She was advised to > make a 2400 > | dpi scan of each picture and save to CD. Her graphics program > required her > | to save to hard drive before transferring to removable medium. > | > > | > After a couple days she is experiencing lockups. Her hard drive > seems to > | be full, but she is unable to delete as described below, and she is > also > | locking up on most internet site loads, leading her to believe that > she has > | memory problems as well. She has run scandisk and also defragged. I > am > | trying to help her. > | > > | > Thanks, > | > > | > Linda Scheimann > | > > | > > | > ------- Start of forwarded message ------- > | > > | > > I really haven't been on the computer much this week, but I > still have > | > > problems. When I started trying to save some of the other > pictures, it > | > > wouldn't let me and said my disk was full. I checked my hard > drive and > | > > sure enough, it had gone from approximately 35%-40% full to > FULL. I > | > > don't know what happened. It can't be the pictures. I went in > and > | > > tried to delete some of the ones that I'd already saved to disk > and it > | > > won't even let me do that. I keep getting a message that tells > me to > | > > check to see if the file is in use (it isn't) or else the > problem might > | > > be that the disk is full or that it is write-protected. None > of those > | > > things would be accurate, so I don't know unless it's so full > that the > | > > trash bin doesn't work. I've tried "delete" and I've tried > dragging. > | > > Sometimes the dragging works. > | > > | > ------- End of forwarded message ------- > | > > | > _________________________________________________________________ > | > iVillage.com: Solutions for Your Life > | > Check out the most exciting women's community on the Web > | > http://www.ivillage.com > | > > | > > | > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > | > GETTING THE MOST OUT OF FAMILY ORIGINS by Bruce Buzbee - FO DEMO > | > http://formalsoft.com NO WEB ACCESS? Write to FormalSoft@aol.com > for > | ordering information. > | > > | > ============================== > | > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & > Celebrate > | > your heritage! > | > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog > | > > | > | > | ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > | Very basic Windows: > http://www.angelfire.com/oh2/created4/COMPUTERBASICS.html > | basic HTML: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~pasher/ > | > | ============================== > | Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & > Celebrate > | your heritage! > | http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog > | > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > Family Origins GenForum - http://genforum.genealogy.com/fo/ > Tech Support Knowledge Base http://www.familyorigins.com/support/ > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library >

2400 dpi seems a bit high for restoration. Most of the people involved in restoration seldom use above 1200 dpi. Usually 800 to 1000 dpi is the choice. The size of the original photograph may dictate the choice of dpi when doing restoration. Still 2400 dpi seems a bit extreme Frank ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Scheimann" <linda514@ivillage.com> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 10:09 PM Subject: Re: [FO] Fwd: OT Scanner Problem > Thanks, everyone. I have forwarded to her. The 2400 dpi request came from a restoration consultant who wanted scans that size in order to do retouching. It's not something I would have done, because I'm not sure what the historic value of a "repainted" photograph would be. The consultant suggested she take the photos to a studio for this scanning, but she was trying to save money by doing it herself on her home computer. > Obviously her plan backfired. > > Her hard drive still shows only 5 MB free space on a 10 gigabyte system, so those scans must be lurking somewhere even though she thinks she has deleted them. This will probably take a computer repair guy to sort out. > > Thanks for the excellent URL on scantips, > > Linda

Just do a 'Start' 'Search' 'For Files or Folders' (Win2000 - will be slightly different for other OSs). Type in *.jpg or *.bmp or *.gif and Start Search. Once the list comes up, you can pick the bad boys and delete them right in that window. -- Happy Hunting!! -- Paul Houston, TX, USA ICQ #73314929 Researching: VA - WHITE,LIPSCOMB,HILL,JOHNSON,SAUNDERS, TALBOT,TATE,EVANS NC - SMITH, BOSWELL, RHODES, CAPEHART,MORRIS, MARSHE, BRITT,SHAW View my American Ancestry at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~paulrsmith **************** FREE Credit Card Referral Program. Quick money AND residual, lifetime income! 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What she has > now can > | be reduced in size with a graphics program. I do not mean the size > of the > | picture in inches, but rather the size in dots to match her > printer, or even > | a newer one. > | > John > | Ballard > | > | - Original Message ----- > | From: "Linda Scheimann" <linda514@ivillage.com> > | To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> > | Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 3:48 PM > | Subject: [FO] Fwd: OT Scanner Problem > | > | > | > Could someone on the list please direct me to resources > concerning scanner > | and memory problems? This message is from a relative who is working > with me > | to preserve a 100 year old photograph album. She was advised to > make a 2400 > | dpi scan of each picture and save to CD. Her graphics program > required her > | to save to hard drive before transferring to removable medium. > | > > | > After a couple days she is experiencing lockups. Her hard drive > seems to > | be full, but she is unable to delete as described below, and she is > also > | locking up on most internet site loads, leading her to believe that > she has > | memory problems as well. She has run scandisk and also defragged. I > am > | trying to help her. > | > > | > Thanks, > | > > | > Linda Scheimann > | > > | > > | > ------- Start of forwarded message ------- > | > > | > > I really haven't been on the computer much this week, but I > still have > | > > problems. When I started trying to save some of the other > pictures, it > | > > wouldn't let me and said my disk was full. I checked my hard > drive and > | > > sure enough, it had gone from approximately 35%-40% full to > FULL. I > | > > don't know what happened. It can't be the pictures. I went in > and > | > > tried to delete some of the ones that I'd already saved to disk > and it > | > > won't even let me do that. I keep getting a message that tells > me to > | > > check to see if the file is in use (it isn't) or else the > problem might > | > > be that the disk is full or that it is write-protected. None > of those > | > > things would be accurate, so I don't know unless it's so full > that the > | > > trash bin doesn't work. I've tried "delete" and I've tried > dragging. > | > > Sometimes the dragging works. > | > > | > ------- End of forwarded message ------- > | > > | > ____________________________________________________________ _____ > | > iVillage.com: Solutions for Your Life > | > Check out the most exciting women's community on the Web > | > http://www.ivillage.com > | > > | > > | > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > | > GETTING THE MOST OUT OF FAMILY ORIGINS by Bruce Buzbee - FO DEMO > | > http://formalsoft.com NO WEB ACCESS? 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If she cannot delete them any other way, would it be possible to look them up in "My Computer" and delete them from there? JD ---------- | From: John Ballard <jballard@surfside.net> | To: FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com | Subject: Re: [FO] Fwd: OT Scanner Problem | Date: Friday, July 06, 2001 9:14 PM | | A few pictures at that absurdly high resolution (dots/inch) is probably | loading her hard disk with hundreds and hundreds of megabites. She will have | to settle for something like 300 to 700 dots/inch to avoid her problem. (It | is a compromise.) A new, great big, hard disk will help. | | Also changing from bmp to jpg format will help a lot. What she has now can | be reduced in size with a graphics program. I do not mean the size of the | picture in inches, but rather the size in dots to match her printer, or even | a newer one. | John | Ballard | | - Original Message ----- | From: "Linda Scheimann" <linda514@ivillage.com> | To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> | Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 3:48 PM | Subject: [FO] Fwd: OT Scanner Problem | | | > Could someone on the list please direct me to resources concerning scanner | and memory problems? This message is from a relative who is working with me | to preserve a 100 year old photograph album. She was advised to make a 2400 | dpi scan of each picture and save to CD. Her graphics program required her | to save to hard drive before transferring to removable medium. | > | > After a couple days she is experiencing lockups. Her hard drive seems to | be full, but she is unable to delete as described below, and she is also | locking up on most internet site loads, leading her to believe that she has | memory problems as well. She has run scandisk and also defragged. I am | trying to help her. | > | > Thanks, | > | > Linda Scheimann | > | > | > ------- Start of forwarded message ------- | > | > > I really haven't been on the computer much this week, but I still have | > > problems. When I started trying to save some of the other pictures, it | > > wouldn't let me and said my disk was full. I checked my hard drive and | > > sure enough, it had gone from approximately 35%-40% full to FULL. I | > > don't know what happened. It can't be the pictures. I went in and | > > tried to delete some of the ones that I'd already saved to disk and it | > > won't even let me do that. I keep getting a message that tells me to | > > check to see if the file is in use (it isn't) or else the problem might | > > be that the disk is full or that it is write-protected. None of those | > > things would be accurate, so I don't know unless it's so full that the | > > trash bin doesn't work. I've tried "delete" and I've tried dragging. | > > Sometimes the dragging works. | > | > ------- End of forwarded message ------- | > | > _________________________________________________________________ | > iVillage.com: Solutions for Your Life | > Check out the most exciting women's community on the Web | > http://www.ivillage.com | > | > | > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== | > GETTING THE MOST OUT OF FAMILY ORIGINS by Bruce Buzbee - FO DEMO | > http://formalsoft.com NO WEB ACCESS? Write to FormalSoft@aol.com for | ordering information. | > | > ============================== | > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate | > your heritage! | > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog | > | | | ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== | Very basic Windows: http://www.angelfire.com/oh2/created4/COMPUTERBASICS.html | basic HTML: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~pasher/ | | ============================== | Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate | your heritage! | http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog |

Wayne is correct in his assessment. The choice of dpi depends primarily on the intended use. Most scanners default about 72 dpi which is usually sufficient for display on most monitors. Kodak uses 92 dpi on their Photo CDs. If the photos will always be displayed on a computer than the lower dpi (72-100) would probably be acceptable. If the plan is to print the photos then the higher dpi (200-300) would be a better choice. If unsure about the use then choose the higher range (200-300). Frank ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne League" <wleague@mindspring.com> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 7:34 PM Subject: Re: [FO] Fwd: OT Scanner Problem > Linda Scheimann <linda514@ivillage.com> wrote: > > >She was advised to make a 2400 dpi scan of each picture and save to CD. > > That was just ridiculous advice. Just one picture scanned at that > resolution could easily be 200 megabytes. And 99% of those bytes are > just wasted space. And that is exactly the reason why her hard drive > is full. She needs to delete all those images and start over. > > You only need to scan at about half the number of pixels per inch that > your printer can print dots per inch. And you get photo quality > prints from printing at about 600 dpi. You can get very good prints > from scans done at 200 dpi and if you scan at more than 300 dpi then > you're just wasting memory and disk space and very, very much of it > too, I might add. The human eye can not see any better resolution > than that. > > Wayne League

Linda Scheimann <linda514@ivillage.com> wrote: >She was advised to make a 2400 dpi scan of each picture and save to CD. That was just ridiculous advice. Just one picture scanned at that resolution could easily be 200 megabytes. And 99% of those bytes are just wasted space. And that is exactly the reason why her hard drive is full. She needs to delete all those images and start over. You only need to scan at about half the number of pixels per inch that your printer can print dots per inch. And you get photo quality prints from printing at about 600 dpi. You can get very good prints from scans done at 200 dpi and if you scan at more than 300 dpi then you're just wasting memory and disk space and very, very much of it too, I might add. The human eye can not see any better resolution than that. Wayne League

Hay! this time I saw Wayne's post before I tried to answer :-) I agree that scanning at 2400 is a complete waste of space. have her take a look at the site about scanning at: http://www.scantips.com/ I scan at 300dpi, because that is all my scanner will do, and that is too high a resolution for the computer screen, not bad for printing though. I can see no reason to scan at a higher resolution than the printer will print, it just has to throw away any extra anyway. Now, about the full disk. Does she know that she has to empty the recycle bin to delete those old files. When you delete something in Windows and it goes to the recycle bin, you haven't really deleted it, only changed it's name so that you can no see or use it. to recover the space it used, you have to empty the recycle bin. Good Luck, Alfred ============ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Scheimann" <linda514@ivillage.com> > Could someone on the list please direct me to resources concerning scanner and memory problems? This message is from a relative who is working with me to preserve a 100 year old photograph album. She was advised to make a 2400 dpi scan of each picture and save to CD. Her graphics program required her to save to hard drive before transferring to removable medium. > > After a couple days she is experiencing lockups. Her hard drive seems to be full, but she is unable to delete as described below, and she is also locking up on most internet site loads, leading her to believe that she has memory problems as well. She has run scandisk and also defragged. I am trying to help her. > > Thanks, > > Linda Scheimann > > > ------- Start of forwarded message ------- > > > I really haven't been on the computer much this week, but I still have > > problems. When I started trying to save some of the other pictures, it > > wouldn't let me and said my disk was full. I checked my hard drive and > > sure enough, it had gone from approximately 35%-40% full to FULL. I > > don't know what happened. It can't be the pictures. I went in and > > tried to delete some of the ones that I'd already saved to disk and it > > won't even let me do that. I keep getting a message that tells me to > > check to see if the file is in use (it isn't) or else the problem might > > be that the disk is full or that it is write-protected. None of those > > things would be accurate, so I don't know unless it's so full that the > > trash bin doesn't work. I've tried "delete" and I've tried dragging. > > Sometimes the dragging works. > > ------- End of forwarded message ------- > >

Thanks, everyone. I have forwarded to her. The 2400 dpi request came from a restoration consultant who wanted scans that size in order to do retouching. It's not something I would have done, because I'm not sure what the historic value of a "repainted" photograph would be. The consultant suggested she take the photos to a studio for this scanning, but she was trying to save money by doing it herself on her home computer. Obviously her plan backfired. Her hard drive still shows only 5 MB free space on a 10 gigabyte system, so those scans must be lurking somewhere even though she thinks she has deleted them. This will probably take a computer repair guy to sort out. Thanks for the excellent URL on scantips, Linda _________________________________________________________________ iVillage.com: Solutions for Your Life Check out the most exciting women's community on the Web http://www.ivillage.com

A few pictures at that absurdly high resolution (dots/inch) is probably loading her hard disk with hundreds and hundreds of megabites. She will have to settle for something like 300 to 700 dots/inch to avoid her problem. (It is a compromise.) A new, great big, hard disk will help. Also changing from bmp to jpg format will help a lot. What she has now can be reduced in size with a graphics program. I do not mean the size of the picture in inches, but rather the size in dots to match her printer, or even a newer one. John Ballard - Original Message ----- From: "Linda Scheimann" <linda514@ivillage.com> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 3:48 PM Subject: [FO] Fwd: OT Scanner Problem > Could someone on the list please direct me to resources concerning scanner and memory problems? This message is from a relative who is working with me to preserve a 100 year old photograph album. She was advised to make a 2400 dpi scan of each picture and save to CD. Her graphics program required her to save to hard drive before transferring to removable medium. > > After a couple days she is experiencing lockups. Her hard drive seems to be full, but she is unable to delete as described below, and she is also locking up on most internet site loads, leading her to believe that she has memory problems as well. She has run scandisk and also defragged. I am trying to help her. > > Thanks, > > Linda Scheimann > > > ------- Start of forwarded message ------- > > > I really haven't been on the computer much this week, but I still have > > problems. When I started trying to save some of the other pictures, it > > wouldn't let me and said my disk was full. I checked my hard drive and > > sure enough, it had gone from approximately 35%-40% full to FULL. I > > don't know what happened. It can't be the pictures. I went in and > > tried to delete some of the ones that I'd already saved to disk and it > > won't even let me do that. I keep getting a message that tells me to > > check to see if the file is in use (it isn't) or else the problem might > > be that the disk is full or that it is write-protected. None of those > > things would be accurate, so I don't know unless it's so full that the > > trash bin doesn't work. I've tried "delete" and I've tried dragging. > > Sometimes the dragging works. > > ------- End of forwarded message ------- > > _________________________________________________________________ > iVillage.com: Solutions for Your Life > Check out the most exciting women's community on the Web > http://www.ivillage.com > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > GETTING THE MOST OUT OF FAMILY ORIGINS by Bruce Buzbee - FO DEMO > http://formalsoft.com NO WEB ACCESS? Write to FormalSoft@aol.com for ordering information. > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog >

Could someone on the list please direct me to resources concerning scanner and memory problems? This message is from a relative who is working with me to preserve a 100 year old photograph album. She was advised to make a 2400 dpi scan of each picture and save to CD. Her graphics program required her to save to hard drive before transferring to removable medium. After a couple days she is experiencing lockups. Her hard drive seems to be full, but she is unable to delete as described below, and she is also locking up on most internet site loads, leading her to believe that she has memory problems as well. She has run scandisk and also defragged. I am trying to help her. Thanks, Linda Scheimann ------- Start of forwarded message ------- > I really haven't been on the computer much this week, but I still have > problems. When I started trying to save some of the other pictures, it > wouldn't let me and said my disk was full. I checked my hard drive and > sure enough, it had gone from approximately 35%-40% full to FULL. I > don't know what happened. It can't be the pictures. I went in and > tried to delete some of the ones that I'd already saved to disk and it > won't even let me do that. I keep getting a message that tells me to > check to see if the file is in use (it isn't) or else the problem might > be that the disk is full or that it is write-protected. None of those > things would be accurate, so I don't know unless it's so full that the > trash bin doesn't work. I've tried "delete" and I've tried dragging. > Sometimes the dragging works. ------- End of forwarded message ------- _________________________________________________________________ iVillage.com: Solutions for Your Life Check out the most exciting women's community on the Web http://www.ivillage.com

I use the photo album in two ways in FO. The first is the traditional of assigning photos to the individual and dragging them into order. I may have the first out of order as this is the one selected for showing with any book or other printout. The second is a little different. We have a family reunion every year (as a matter of fact, there are two, one on my fathers side and one on my mothers). I have created a database called picnics. I have two lines, the first is Tompkins Picnics and the child is the following years picnics. The child to that would be the next year and so on. There is no spouse in each case. Now for each years picnic, I initiate a scrapbook page and in that page, I place the photos (scanned) for that picnic. Witht the title and description, I can put plenty of information so now I print out a Report/Photo Charts/Individual and print each years picnic. It carries the title of the year at the top and is page numbered for that year if there are more pictures than will go on one page (I use 2 columns and 3 rows to give sizable photos). I have produced this for our picnics since 1981 and then bring them to the reunion picnics. They have always been a big hit. Keith Thompson Varick wrote: > > I have never used the photo portion of my FO even though I am > really big on photos and have numerous (non-computer) albums > > Having put together those albums I realize from experience that > the best albums are the ones I planned in great detail ahead of time. > > Would any of you care to share your experience with "FO albums"? > Any helpful hints before I undertake this task? > > Floreda > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > FAMILY ORIGINS - Ordering, UPDATES, books, FAQ, FREE DEMO, Newsletter, etc. http://formalsoft.com For the 8.03 and 9.02 PATCHES and what they fix, go to: http://formalsoft.com/files.htm > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp -- Keith Thompson, Worthington, OH Home Web Page: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~kthompson/ Genealogy Web Page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kthompson Efax # (419) 818-1912 JFax & Voicemail (530) 484-3831

Hi Floreda -- I think you are going to find that any responses you get to this question will be very foreign to you because FO doesn't use a organizeable 'photo album' format as such. Each page of FO's album is pre-organized to go with a specific individual or family. e.g. I have several dozen pictures of each of my children on their own page and they are arranged from birth to current (the photos can be easily rearranged as required). Some people like to try to put the photos in different folders to keep them separate. I tried to do that and it got to be overwhelming very quickly plus you have the problem of multiple links to deal with. Put them all in a single folder so that FO (and you) will be able to find them more easily. Photo file names can quickly become a problem as you get hundreds of photos in your system. Computers like short names and a code is probably the best method. Some people like to use personalized codes - prs010101 might be a photo of me, Paul R. Smith, taken 1 Jan 01. If you've got a bunch of PRSs, that becomes problematic. Frankly, any old code will work just fine. Start with 1 and number them as you input them into your system. Then use a simple spreadsheet to keep track. e.g. Filename Subject Date Taken Details 1 Paul R. Smith, Sr. 01 Jan 2001 New Years Party at brother Bob's house The advantage of the spreadsheet is that it is quickly sortable by any of the columns and you can add as many columns like Family Surname, City, State, Location, Function Type, etc. and the details can be as long as you like. Embed the spreadsheet in a note in FO (mine is in my own general notes but I'd like to find a more central location to put it - maybe Bruce will work something out along those lines one of these days. The Multimedia List is close but not quite.) Wouldn't it be neat if Bruce could give us a scrapbook that could be customized on the fly? e.g. I want to see all pictures taken in 1999 sorted by date or function type or a surname or etc. Just a thought. -- Happy Hunting!! -- Paul Houston, TX, USA ICQ #73314929 Researching: VA - WHITE,LIPSCOMB,HILL,JOHNSON,SAUNDERS, TALBOT,TATE,EVANS NC - SMITH, BOSWELL, RHODES, CAPEHART,MORRIS, MARSHE, BRITT,SHAW View my American Ancestry at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~paulrsmith **************** FREE Credit Card Referral Program. Quick money AND residual, lifetime income! CHECK IT OUT !! http://smithecomservices.tripod.com ***************************************

You will have many different suggestions as to what works best for different folks. As soon as the program offered the capability to include photos, I started including them. I now have about 3500-4000 photos linked to individuals in my FO master database. I would suggest a very key element up-front is that you plan carefully the way you wish to file your photos for use in your scrapbook, to keep their organization manageable. That may depend on the number of photos you anticipate having. I used to keep them all in one folder together with very short file names. Initially, that worked very well. I think that works best for many people. For me though, as the number of files grew and grew, it became an unwieldy organization. The number keeps growing. Quite sometime back now, I changed my method and organization of photos.I know that having a separate spread sheet to track them works well for some folks. I didn't want to have to keep a separate spread sheet though. I now have a folder at the root: "c:\Photos" and I keep a shortcut to that folder on my desktop. Then I have a folder for each major surname line: c:\Photos\Smith c:\Photos\Yates (etc.) For all the photos related to my parents and siblings (which by far is the greatest number), I have a directory which is a combination of my father and mother's surnames: c:\Photos\Dawk-Ped I DO use a descriptive home-grown naming convention using longer individual file names, using surnames first, including dates of photos if known, etc. For example: c:\Photos\Dawk-Ped\dawkins-walt-1990x-fam.jpg (or) c:\Photos\Dawk-Ped\dawkins-walt-1990x-clan.jpg c:\Photos\Dawk-Ped\dawkins-walt-marge-pedigo-1936-Feb22-wed01.jpg c:\Photos\Dawk-Ped\dawkins-walt-1990-faday.jpg Those examples being 1. The Walt Dawkins Family, Christmas 1990 2. The Walt Dawkins Clan, Christmas 1990 3. Wedding Photo, Walter Dawkins & Marge Pedigo, February 22, 1936 4. Walter Dawkins, Father's Day 1990 You might choose to keep the "Photos" folder in your "c:\My Documents" folder. I prefer to keep it at the root level because it shortens the pathname. You DO have to backup your photos directories as faithfully as you (hopefully) backup your FO data... and do it as a separate operation, because while backing up FO data will backup the links to the photos and captions, it will NOT backup the photos themselves. You have to remember to do that as a separate operation. I have used the album printouts a LOT and have developed some caption and description conventions I use. If you are interested in those, let me know. What works best for one will not necessarily work best for another. A lot of it will be experimenting trial-and-error to see what you think will work best for you and the amount of data you want to track with a photo, etc. The data you include in the "description" box for a photo will not all necessarily print in the scrapbook, depending on the length. But it will print if you print the photo separately. The convention I developed works to accommodate what FO will and will not print in each type of printout, as well as the amount of data I want to keep with the photos (which is considerable). Patricia At 07:09 AM 7/6/01 -0400, Varick wrote: >I have never used the photo portion of my FO even though I am >really big on photos and have numerous (non-computer) albums > >Having put together those albums I realize from experience that >the best albums are the ones I planned in great detail ahead of time. > >Would any of you care to share your experience with "FO albums"? >Any helpful hints before I undertake this task? > >Floreda

I have never used the photo portion of my FO even though I am really big on photos and have numerous (non-computer) albums Having put together those albums I realize from experience that the best albums are the ones I planned in great detail ahead of time. Would any of you care to share your experience with "FO albums"? Any helpful hints before I undertake this task? Floreda

Yvonne; I tried to install the 1880 US Census from LDS yesterday. It automatically started installing (as it was supposed to), then I received a message on the screen "INVALID DISK. Replace disk, strike any letter." After several attempts, I e-mailed them today, asking for a VALID disk. I had to use a friend's computer, since I couldn't remove the above phrase; tried Alt, CTl, Del without results. I can't use my computer now at all. Margaret Hobler ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yvonne Bennett" <yvonne@monmouth.com> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 9:16 AM Subject: [FO] Off Topic Question > This is a computer question. The people on this list are so computer > smart I hope it's ok to ask :-) I bought the 1880 US Census from LDS > and I can't view it! After down loading the viewer that comes with it I > get the following message. > ""Run time error "339" > Component "Folio Objects ocx' ot one of it's dependencies not correctly > registered: a file is missing or invalid" > > I have contacted Teck help and this is their reply " There are a few, > like yourself, experiencing similar problems. These appear to be > related to irregularities in the operating system as installed on your > machine. Some are known to be problems in the Microsoft software. > Others are currently undetermined. We will notify you, 1) when we can > provide an appropriate resolution" > > That was more than 3 weeks ago, so I guess they have not come up with a > fix. > My question is, 1. has anyone else had this problem and 2. doe's anyone > have any suggestions as how I might get around it? Other then as they > suggested installing it on another computer which I don't have. > Please contact me off list if you have any suggestions > <yvonne@monmouth.com> > Thank's in advance for any suggestions offered. > Yvonne >

LS_lingbro <lingbro@lanset.com> wrote: >I then created my web site, >selecting family group sheets, and reviewed it through the browser. All the facts I marked >not to be listed on WWW was listed, including the the Facts I did mark on to be on the >website. If you're doing a family group sheet web page then you must unmark the fact from being used in family group sheets to keep the fact from appearing in that type of web page. Wayne League