Leslie That's because they are too long. You have to copy the whole link and paste it into your address bar. Ray -----Original Message----- From: Leslie Rahling [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 9:01 AM To: 'Ray Marshall' Subject: RE: [IRL-KERRY] White Paper: Preserving Your Family History RecordsDigitally Ray, the links you sent don't work. Leslie -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ray Marshall Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 8:50 AM To: Kerry List; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [IRL-KERRY] White Paper: Preserving Your Family History RecordsDigitally Gene Eastman, Eastman's On-Line Genealogy Newsletter October 21, 2010 Preserving Your Family History Records Digitally I have written several times about the advantages and disadvantages of storing records digitally for many years, both your personal records as well as the holdings of major archives and records repositories. Now Gary Wright, an employee of FamilySearch, has written a definitive whitepaper on the subject that explains the issues involved with digital archiving. He describes in detail the pitfalls of digital storage of priceless paperwork and of old family photographs that have been digitized. As he explains, if done right, digital archives will last for decades. If done wrong, they may not last three years. I had a chance to read this whitepaper a few weeks ago when Gary circulated it amongst a number of people in the industry, asking for our comments. I told Gary at that time that he had to publish it on the web and, when he did, to please let me know the address so that I could inform the readers of this newsletter. After all the comments were in, Gary did exactly that. White Paper: Preserving Your Family History Records Digitally is now available on the FamilySearch.org web site at https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/White_Paper:_Preserving_Your_Family_History _Records_Digitally <https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/White_Paper:_Preserving_Your_Family_Histor y_Records_Digitally> I would suggest you read this whitepaper and consider the information within it carefully. Then forward copies to all your genealogy friends, society members, and anyone else with an interest in genealogy. I think every genealogist as well as every person who has heirloom documents and photographs in his or her possession should read White Paper: Preserving Your Family History Records Digitally at https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/White_Paper:_Preserving_Your_Family_History _Records_Digitally <https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/White_Paper:_Preserving_Your_Family_Histor y_Records_Digitally> White Paper: Preserving Your Family History Records Digitally >From FamilySearch Wiki Gary T. Wright, October 2010 While gathering family history records over the years, you've probably been preserving them physically. So why consider preserving them digitally now? This paper discusses the benefits and challenges of using digital preservation to both augment and enhance the preservation of your family history records. It also explores solutions to the challenges, identifies what types of family history records are suitable for digital preservation, and summarizes what is required to get started archiving digital records. This paper is available as a PDF document <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Personal_Archiving_White _Paper_8_Oct_2010.pdf> Print or share this paper with others <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Personal_Archiving_White_Paper_8_Oct _2010.pdf> _______________ --------------- Policies of the IRL-Kerry List: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/mailing.html To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message. To subscribe to the Digest version of the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'subscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message. To visit the County Kerry Research and Resources Page go to: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ Share your stuff! If you transcribed research data, share it with the Irish genealogy community. Contribute it to the Kerry website to reach a wide audience. Contact Ann Hammer, data maintenance. Her contact info is at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ contrib.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Ray, I've been using this for years... http://tinyurl.com/ Quick fix for long URL's. :) Kind regards, Sherrie. --- http://www.silkweb.com.au/ On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 01:39:09 +1100, Ray Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: > Leslie > > That's because they are too long. You have to copy the whole link and > paste > it into your address bar. > > > Ray > --