I have several hundred 35mm slides that I want to get into the computer. and transfer them to CD's with a Read/Write CD Rom Drive. Does anyone know if this can be done? I can put them onto CD'S for 88 cents each. Thanks Aubrey G. Cloud

Folks, I have created a database based on the online source of Confederate Service Pensions Application index. I can search by county for all the USGEN webmasters and will be happy to provide a sorted printout. As well as any one wanting a lookup of all surnames or such. I also have Levy County marriages as published in the "Search For Yesterday" I will be happy to do a look up as well. and if your family is from Dixie, Lafayette, Gilchrist or Levy Counties check out my tree you may find something. Lil tommy, Ps. I will try to respond as quick as I can. but last time I did this I was amazed at the number of requests. so please be kind if I am a little slow in responding back. Parker Family, a tree of the South http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~twparker Searching for the following: Bain, Baker, Biggs, Branch, Burke, Cannon, Coleman, Cunningham, Dayhoff, Dehoff, Digges, Downing, Driggers, Edmonds, Engham, Gayman, Gordon, Herndon, Holley, Howard, Jones, Kempe, Kempland, Ledger, Lee, Legette, Lislin, Locklier, Maria, Martin, Mccall, McGowen, Mikell, Moll, Osteen, Overstreet, Padgett, Page, Parker, Patrick, Patterson, Peterson, Phillips, Robbins, Robinson, Senger, Sheppard, Simmons, Simpson, Stock, Sullivan, Tindle, Townsend, Webb, Wenger, Whidden, Wilsford Wite, Wolfe, Wood, ?ipkins ( could be a P or T), For my always up-to-date contact information, click here: http://www.planetall.com/main.asp?cid=618967 It's private, secure and free

Susann, I also am looking for Whiddens in Florida around 1850. I have a John Driggers who married a Whidden possible the Lakeland area over to Hillsborough area. I do not have much on the family but sometimes little leads will lead on to others. Check out my tree at the address below. Lil tommy, Parker Family, a tree of the South http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~twparker Searching for the following:Bain, Baker, Biggs, Branch, Burke, Cannon, Coleman, Cunningham, Dayhoff, Dehoff, Digges, Downing, Driggers, Edmonds, Engham, Gayman, Gordon, Herndon, Holley, Howard, Jones, Kempe, Kempland, Ledger, Lee, Legette, Lislin, Locklier, Maria, Martin, Mccall, McGowen, Mikell, Moll, Osteen, Overstreet, Padgett, Page, Parker, Patrick, Patterson, Peterson, Phillips, Robbins, Robinson, Senger, Sheppard, Simmons, Simpson, Stock, Sullivan, Tindle, Townsend, Webb, Wenger, Whidden, Wilsford Wite, Wolfe, Wood, ?ipkins ( could be a P or T), For my always up-to-date contact information, click here: http://www.planetall.com/main.asp?cid=618967 It's private, secure and free -----Original Message----- From: Phil Wandrey [mailto:gavinwandrey@earthlink.net] Sent: Tuesday, 02 March, 1999 2:01 PM To: FLORIDA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: WHIDDON Info needed Hello from Susann WHIDDON-Wandrey New member here---and I'm pretty certain this is the right place!! Looking for any and all info on: Charles WHIDDON who supposedly arrived from Eng/Ire in mid 19th C. By early 1880's (poss. much earlier) he had married a Catherine PAINE of Deerfield, AL. Their children were: Charles Wilson WHIDDON b. July 9,1883 in AL Eason WHIDDON Eugenia WHIDDON Lilly WHIDDON IDA (or Ila or Ida-ben) WHIDDON Maybel (or Maydel) WHIDDON It is my belief some of these children were born in Florida. I am most specifically trying to find out about CHARLES WHIDDON, SR., however. Family tales have it that he migrated from UK, but because of some naming patterns and other clues, I'm beginning to doubt the truth of this. I think he was born stateside, very possibly FLA. His parents are unknown to me, but his siblings are the following: IKE----(what is this nicknmae for?) BEN (Bennett?) JOHN ROSA JOAN obviously, these children were also all WHIDDONs, time period would be maybe 1840's to1860's (?) Oh please, Whiddon-kin, if you are out there, please answer! Susann

Hello from Susann WHIDDON-Wandrey New member here---and I'm pretty certain this is the right place!! Looking for any and all info on: Charles WHIDDON who supposedly arrived from Eng/Ire in mid 19th C. By early 1880's (poss. much earlier) he had married a Catherine PAINE of Deerfield, AL. Their children were: Charles Wilson WHIDDON b. July 9,1883 in AL Eason WHIDDON Eugenia WHIDDON Lilly WHIDDON IDA (or Ila or Ida-ben) WHIDDON Maybel (or Maydel) WHIDDON It is my belief some of these children were born in Florida. I am most specifically trying to find out about CHARLES WHIDDON, SR., however. Family tales have it that he migrated from UK, but because of some naming patterns and other clues, I'm beginning to doubt the truth of this. I think he was born stateside, very possibly FLA. His parents are unknown to me, but his siblings are the following: IKE----(what is this nicknmae for?) BEN (Bennett?) JOHN ROSA JOAN obviously, these children were also all WHIDDONs, time period would be maybe 1840's to1860's (?) Oh please, Whiddon-kin, if you are out there, please answer! Susann

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Grady Turnage is willing to take a group to the Chattahoochee cemetery on Wednesday morning,*this Wednesday* meet at the Homecoming Restaurant at 10:00 AM EST a.m. Right now he may have 5 or 6 people signed up. If you want to go on the cemetery tour e-mail Myrt Mayne at jim.mayne@gte.net Betty

Looking for info on her and her children Elizabeth Jean ALLEN bornSept 18,1937 Cindy Rae Keeley born:Dec 30,1956-San Jose Ca.Jerrel Charles Jan 02,1958-San Jose. Mark born:Oct 30,1959-San Jose. Gary Lee born:May 28,1961 there father died:Nov,1987 any help would be most welcome. Thank you Happy

Hi everyone, I have been tracking an ancestor for the last few years, following his life from Ohio, thru the civil war, into Iowa, then South Dakota. I have found all his brothers resting areas. He is my 2nd Great grandfather. As I am following his life, it seems to taper off, and with reports from the older generation of my family he wintered in Florida, my Great Aunt who prepared the basis of the tree I am working off, listed him as dying in Daytona Beach, Fla. April 12, 1915. Using this info I sent off for a Death Certificate so I can close in on where he is buried, and I get a letter back a month later saying that he was not listed as dying in Fla. in 1915. I am lost as to where to turn. Any help, references or on-line search areas would be GREAT! Thanks Chalkley Harris Derr B. Apr 15, 1840 D. Apr 12, 1915 (I guess not now) Joe (derrgenealogy) Heartland Woods CL heartland_cl@usa.net ICQ # 454960 http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/4198/index.html

I've been reading the responses. Preservation of photograph images is a complicated project. Long-term preservation of research materials generally depends on the paper on which the information has been printed. Newspaper is the most acidic and short-lived of papers....so as it deteriorates so does the readability or access to the information on it. That's why it is easier in this case to preserve the information by photocopying onto acid- free paper. Photographs however consist of an emulsion base on top of paper. So the preservation of the image will depend a great deal on the paper it is on. If the photograph is in color, then you will also have long-term deterioration of the colors depending on the inks used, storage conditions and the like. Today's laser printers act like color printers. The photograph is scanned to produce the yellow, red, and blue templates. Longevity of laser copies is dependent on the paper used, and since most quick copy places are not using acid-free paper.....the laser copy is no more long-lasting than the paper used. The new generation of home color printers for printing and for photographs--- well, archivists just don't know enough yet about the materials used in these tools to know their longevity. The color inks themselves may be more water based than oil, for example. Perhaps they are soy inks. I noticed that a copy from my HP inkjet printer ran when it was exposed to water....but if it had been a photocopy from an xerographic process, water would not have affected the image. We lose so many family pictures when relative pass away and someone "cleans" out the house....that if it is up to me, I prefer spending a little more and getting negatives and extra copies. Dean Dean DeBolt, University Librarian Special Collections and West Florida Archives University of West Florida Library 11000 University Parkway Pensacola, FL 32514-5750 Tele: 850-474-2213. Fax: 850-474-3338. E-mail: ddebolt@uwf.edu ---------------------------------------------------- Reach me by ICQ. My ICQ# is 14599771 or, * Page me online through my Personal Communication Center: http://wwp.mirabilis.com/14599771 (go there and try it ----------------------------------------------------

To answer Steven's questions, as an archivist, I highly recommend that you have any photographs you wish to preserve copied by a photographic lab, preferably a local photographer who can give you one-on-one service. Once you do this, you should have (1) a negative (and I would get two if it was me), and a new (2) positive of any picture. At that point, you can return the originals to the owners. That provides you with a negative so future photographs can be made as needed. The copy photograph that you have can then be scanned and posted on a webpage, etc. You can also as a last resort, take a regular camera to the home of the folks who won't lend and take photographs of the pictures they have. You really need to have a camera stand or something to hold the camera very steady. I'm not opposed to digital cameras and the like, however in this process you do not have a negative. Also other members of the family can only enjoy these photographs provided they have a computer, software, etc. As an archivist, I worry about capturing information digitally because there is no assurance that you will be able to vew an electronic file in ten, twenty, or fifty years. I suppor the use of scanning and computer as sharing information, but not necessarity as preserving it. In our collections here we have negatives of photographs as old as 100 years, and we can still reproduce photographs as necessary. I also have computer files as recent as ten years ago which are unreadable because (1) we either don't have the equipment (8" computer disks, for example), or (2) we don't have the software programs to read them. Dean Dean DeBolt, University Librarian Special Collections and West Florida Archives University of West Florida Library 11000 University Parkway Pensacola, FL 32514-5750 Tele: 850-474-2213. Fax: 850-474-3338. E-mail: ddebolt@uwf.edu ---------------------------------------------------- Reach me by ICQ. My ICQ# is 14599771 or, * Page me online through my Personal Communication Center: http://wwp.mirabilis.com/14599771 (go there and try it ----------------------------------------------------

I get tips from Prodigy every week and since this had to do with the recent thread, thought I would forward it. Anne -----Original Message----- From: Prodigy Help Desk <tips@prodigy.net> >Need help with e-mailing or printing digital images? Then check out >the Kodak Digital Imaging Center. Although this is clearly a >commercial site, we found it a useful resource for anyone seeking >information about digital images, including the more advanced >aspects. > >You'll find pointers on such topics as adding images to print >documents, setting up printer software for digital images, and >avoiding problems when e-mailing graphics over the Internet. There's >a glossary, a collection of frequently asked questions, and tons of >other helpful stuff. >Go to: http://www.kodak.com/US/en/digital/dlc/ >If you don't want to receive tips, please unsubscribe from this list >by going to: http://goodstuff.prodigy.com/lists/tips.html

Joe, Although the State of Florida may not have a copy of your ancestor's death, that doesn't mean he didn't die when and where you thought. Several of my Florida ancestors didn't have an official death certificate, but I have found information elsewhere. I suggest that you write to Volusia County Clerk of Circuit Court, DeLand, FL 32720 (per Everton's THE HANDY BOOK, Seventh Edition) and ask him/her to check the probate index for your g-g-grandfather. When I do this, I send a SASE and a check for $5 "to apply toward any fees." Request that they let you know the cost for copies of any records they may find. Volusia County may have a web page showing the name of county officials if you want to check for the current county clerk's proper name. Good luck. Kathleen Marsh kmarsh@innet.com -----Original Message----- From: Joe <highcouncil@gci-net.com> . . . listed him as dying in Daytona Beach, Fla. April 12, 1915. >Using this info I sent off for a Death Certificate and I get a letter back a month later saying that he was not listed as dying in Fla. in 1915. I am lost as to where to turn. >Any help, references or on-line search areas would be GREAT! Thanks >Chalkley Harris Derr >B. Apr 15, 1840 >D. Apr 12, 1915 (I guess not now)

FAX TO: 800-423-6787 cc: Via Registered Mail February 10, 1999 Desert Census Research 50 South Main Street, Suite 25-9 Salt Lake City, UT 84144 Re: Order dated 10/18/98 1. On 12/14/98 you advised that "you recognized the name and the order was in process and the package would arrive in a few days". 2. On 12/21/98 you advised "the photocopies are here and will be mailed tomorrow". 3. On 1/11/99 you advised "they will arrive tomorrow, already sent priority mail at a cost of $3.00". 4. I hereby request full refund of funds advanced to you, which you deposited 12/4/98. I expect receipt of your check via return mail and not later than February 19, 1999, so as to avoid further action on my part. Joseph V. Clawges, SR ************************************** The above was faxed and mailed on a letterhead containing full address information, including fax and email. There has been no response. Every time that I telephoned, the voice on the other end was always the same. This organization has a small web site which includes a printable order form. They do not accept credit cards; only checks and money order only. They do not accept email' all orders must be sent via snail mail. I don't recall where I found their site, but I believe it was in Cyndy's List because I use it frequently. A volunteer at FHC told me that Desert Sensus Service had absolutely no affiliation with the LDS organization.

I need a great big favor! I am searching for the death dates of the following people. Both occurred between 1971 - 1997 .... Heard, Curtis Clermont, Florida Heard, Everett - Tallahassee, Leon County, FL Would appreciate anyone who has the Death Index to check for me. Thanks in advance. Ida

Have you seen the movie "The Time Machine" based on the story by H.G. Wells? This reminds me of the future society that he found where they had to spin these 'disks' on a table that would playback the recorded history on them....and all the Books in their library were in complete decomposition......... - just a passing thought...... I believe that we will figure out a way to store photos on a very long term fashion... The digital data will not get destroyed IF it's copied all over the place and CD's Should have a very long lifespan.... they are completely protected against corrosion and are not affected by magnetisim... But if you were to leave them in the SUN for any long length of time they would probably decay due to the ultraviolet rays breaking down the plastic coating. Bottom line though, they are tougher than a photograph on acetate ot a printed on on acid free paper and you can hold thousands on a single CD. The new CD Writers are getting very affordable and are safer storage than floppies or mag tape or the hard drive. In fact I sort of guess that eventually their will be holographic records that are even more complete than a 2D photo.....:-) - Bill Brooks, Vista, CA Richard White wrote: > I have already said this, but since mine seemed mostly to be one small > voice crying in the wilderness, I am going to reiterate it in simpler > terms: > > Digital records (whether created by scanners or digital cameras) are not > assured of long term survival for two reasons: (1) The digital storage > media are unknowns as to long term storage, in spite of manufacturers > claims in that regard, and (2) they depend on a sophisticated machine to > read them so that even if the medium survives the particular machine may > no longer be available. My example was trying to read a 45 rpm vinyl > record in a CD player. You cannot do it. > > Also, no matter what how many of you say about how great scanned or > digitally photographed copies come out compared to the original, it is > highly unlikely in most cases that the copy made that way would be as > good as a photographic copy. > > PHOTOGRAPHIC COPIES ARE SIMPLE TECHNOLOGY OF KNOWN DURABILITY AND > READABILITY (NOT DEPENDING ON A SPECIFIC MACHINE TO READ THEM). Under > controlled temperature and humidity, properly fixed photographic > negatives have already survived up to 150 years. How many CD ROMs have > done that... and do you really think there will be CD ROM readers 150 > years from now? One of the reasons that photographic prints cost so > much is that they are made on acid free paper. Photographic prints are > developed in solutions containing water and are even somewhat resistant > to ill effects from wetting. Have you ever wet an ink-jet printed copy > of a photo? > > Nobody has mentioned it yet, but the best alternative of all, if > available, is to make more prints from the original negatives. You > should never neglect that if it is an available option. > > So basically I'm agreeing with Sherry, but carrying it further... > > But if you don't believe me, ask your friendly local neighborhood > trained archivist. > > Richard White > Tallahassee > > "Sherry L. Nisly" wrote: > > > So, the longest saving choice is actually taking new photos of > > the photos, the second choice is to scan them in (actually best > > is to do both if you can) and with scans, save them in the original > > format plus a universal format, such as .tif (then convert them to > > .jpg if you want to electonically send them. > > > Sherry L. (Bouse) Nisly

hello. Is there such a thing for Florida as an index? I need a lookup or a point in the right direction..I live in Kansas and am looking for Emerson Burley. There was one listed in the SSDI but he was not my Burley. Thank you! Michele R. Lockwood Researching: Blake, Burley, Church,Colon, Davis, Downs, Grant, Hulce/Hulse, Ivey, King, Libertino/Liparoti/Liperuote, Lockwood,Nelson,Rules,Traviso/Troise

This is a great list. Although I love my scanner, you have convinced me that I should photograph my touched up scans to ensure saving those photos for posterity. Thanks!! Peggy

I have already said this, but since mine seemed mostly to be one small voice crying in the wilderness, I am going to reiterate it in simpler terms: Digital records (whether created by scanners or digital cameras) are not assured of long term survival for two reasons: (1) The digital storage media are unknowns as to long term storage, in spite of manufacturers claims in that regard, and (2) they depend on a sophisticated machine to read them so that even if the medium survives the particular machine may no longer be available. My example was trying to read a 45 rpm vinyl record in a CD player. You cannot do it. Also, no matter what how many of you say about how great scanned or digitally photographed copies come out compared to the original, it is highly unlikely in most cases that the copy made that way would be as good as a photographic copy. PHOTOGRAPHIC COPIES ARE SIMPLE TECHNOLOGY OF KNOWN DURABILITY AND READABILITY (NOT DEPENDING ON A SPECIFIC MACHINE TO READ THEM). Under controlled temperature and humidity, properly fixed photographic negatives have already survived up to 150 years. How many CD ROMs have done that... and do you really think there will be CD ROM readers 150 years from now? One of the reasons that photographic prints cost so much is that they are made on acid free paper. Photographic prints are developed in solutions containing water and are even somewhat resistant to ill effects from wetting. Have you ever wet an ink-jet printed copy of a photo? Nobody has mentioned it yet, but the best alternative of all, if available, is to make more prints from the original negatives. You should never neglect that if it is an available option. So basically I'm agreeing with Sherry, but carrying it further... But if you don't believe me, ask your friendly local neighborhood trained archivist. Richard White Tallahassee "Sherry L. Nisly" wrote: > So, the longest saving choice is actually taking new photos of > the photos, the second choice is to scan them in (actually best > is to do both if you can) and with scans, save them in the original > format plus a universal format, such as .tif (then convert them to > .jpg if you want to electonically send them. > Sherry L. (Bouse) Nisly

Does the Havana Herald newspaper in Havana, FL (Gadsden Co) have an e-mail address? Is it online? Thanks! Liz Gerlits (Deretha Elizabeth Yon Gerlits) Palm Bay, FL

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_920215402_boundary Content-ID: <0_920215402@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi All, With our ongoing discussion of photos, I could not resist passing this on from another list. What a shame to hoard photos! I'm copy and distributing as fast as I can! I've been able to share with second cousins photos of their father which they had not seen because their Grandparent's house burned destroying their pictures. I've received photos from a third cousin of the ggaunt who updated the family history in 1929. They are all treasures to us. Bonnie --part0_920215402_boundary Content-ID: <0_920215402@inet_out.mail.westol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <MORROW-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-yc02.mx.aol.com (rly-yc02.mail.aol.com [172.18.149.34]) by air-yc03.mail.aol.com (v56.26) with SMTP; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 09:40:25 -0500 Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by rly-yc02.mx.aol.com (vx) with SMTP; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 09:40:08 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA02244; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 06:25:48 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 06:25:48 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199902281439.JAA27709@mail.westol.com> Reply-To: <dmohney@westol.com> From: "Donna Mohney" <dmohney@westol.com> Old-To: <PAWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com>, <PAMERCER-L@rootsweb.com>, <PABEAVER-L@rootsweb.com>, <PAFAYETT-L@rootsweb.com>, <HOLLAR-L@rootsweb.com>, <SWEDEN-L@rootsweb.com>, <MORROW-L@rootsweb.com>, <PAARMSTR-L@rootsweb.com>, "Pfalz Germany" <PFALZ-L@rootsweb.com>, <PABEDFOR-L@rootsweb.com>, <BENTON-L@rootsweb.com>, <INMARSHA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 09:23:30 -0500 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1157 Subject: [MORROW-L] FAMILY PHOTOS Resent-Message-ID: <"dpsMoB.A.lg.oHV22"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> To: MORROW-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: MORROW-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <MORROW-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/823 X-Loop: MORROW-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: MORROW-L-request@rootsweb.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Hi all. I apologize ahead of time to those who will get more than one cop= y of this but thought it was important enough for all. I just attended the funeral of my 78 year old aunt. She was the self-appointed guardian of al= l family info and she guarded it well. I've been doing research for almost 20 years and she absolutely refused to let me have access to my grandmother's photos, etc. Yesterday, my father, who inherited from his sister, gave me access to this material. I found my grandfather's death certificate and the sermon read at his funeral, my grandmother's birth certificate, wedding certificate, death certificate, obituaries and famil= y letters, church membership records, a history written in 1932 that confirm= s the royal line of one of my families and tells me that my Rodgers ancesto= r was the "tallest man in England in his day and had a huge head", school reports for my aunts and uncles (now deceased), I could go on and on. Bu= t what's important is this: I now have photos- hundreds of them from my gggrandmother, Margaret McConahy and gggrandfather, George Van Eman Morrow= , down to my own son. So what's wrong? Many of then aren't labeled- some o= f them were hanging in a damp basement, some are falling apart, some glued t= o the album, etc . I have a photo of three teenagers that is just marked "Morrow". Now I think it is my grgrandmother and her siblings but ? Sadly the older family members are mostly gone and I don't know if they will ever be identified. So, I am begging all of you- share the photos, etc. now, sit down with the family members and mark them - get your own info in order so that 100 year= s from now, our descendants aren't lamenting the loss of family info. You can bet that within the next few weeks, all of my photos will be labeled. and copies of these photos made and shared with my cousins. Thanks for listening and I hope this saves at least one photo. Donna =3D=3D=3D=3D MORROW Mailing List =3D=3D=3D=3D List problems? First, read the Welcome Message that you received when you subscribed. Feel free to contact Yvonne James-Henderson, list administrator with questions concerning this list! mailto:hen1@idt.net --part0_920215402_boundary--