You know, suit yourself if you want to join. I pay for this "so called free site" and I invite people who what to be there. I am on 40 sites and admin 3 of them. I wanted a way for all to have access to the same genealogy information in one spot. It is closed -it is by invite only - if anyone wants to join they email me. I have never rec'd spam. There is nothing in it for me other than helping others while I am helping myself. But I will NOT try to convince someone who does not want to be there-between my job myfamily and my genealogy obsession I do not have time for cohersing someone who is wasting my time. You want an invite - you email and ask me for it. I do not care either way. I do not care what kind of sales you get in spam I receive none from the site. Anymore questions go and read the "LEGAL MUMBLE JUMBLE". I don't think you would like our site anyway -way too many nice and trusting people. You just would not fit in. ----- Original Message ----- From: "K.Fitzgerald" <gmakf@earthlink.net> To: <MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 4:09 AM Subject: Re: [MDGARRET] New website > I'm curious.... > This new web site isn't one of those "closed" web sites places where you > have to supply the sponsor > with your guest's name and e-mail address before they can visit is it? Where > they can > only visit the site after they read this long list of legal > mumbo-jumbo (which is usually written so that few people actually read > through it all....much less understand it) terms that they must agree to > before > they can enter and use the site for the first time? Where once a guest > visits... the sponsor then sends them little messages (whenever someone > posts > something new at the site) to click on a link provided in > the message so they can visit the site again and see what's been added? > . > The reason I ask is that I made the mistake of visiting a site like that a > few years ago and after a while > I began to notice that I would get this increase in SPAM after each visit. > Finally put two and two together and made some inquiries..... > Seems the folks who sponsor many of these so-called "free" but "closed" > sites do so because it provides them with a means of collecting what they > know to be active/valid e-mail addresses. They use and/or sell these e-mail > addresses for SPAM purposes. They get away with this under the claim that > it's > not SPAM because the guest freely supplied their name & email address plus > agreed > to receive advertisements from them an/or their associates. > Every time a person visits or revisits one of these "closed sites" it > confirms that their email address is still valid and active. > . > Sponsoring genealogy websites is especially popular among those wanting to > compile valid/active e-mail address lists because genealogists make up such > a > large percentage of today's Internet users. > . > Hmmm? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Terrie Smith <terrie7@alltel.net> > To: <MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 2:23 PM > Subject: [MDGARRET] New website > > > > There is a new forum type website on MyFamily.com called Western Maryland: > Including Garrett and Allegany Counties. This forum allows posting of > pictures and other documents. The site is brand new and there is not much > there. But, it is expected to have a large response. If you are interested > in joining us, please email me you first and last name alongwith your email > address. Thank you Terrie Smith and Bonnie McCRoby Wuensche. > > > > terrie7@alltel.net > > > > > > > > ==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== > If you need help with this list, make sure to email the list administrator, Carol Hepburn, at chepburn@cox.net. > >

The site is run by MyFamily - the mother company of this mailing list. I haven't had any problems at all with SPAM, and I belong to a long list of the sites for the great value they provide for research! We post, like we do here, but can also share photographs, documents and other items that are of interest to all who belong. The little messages are to inform the whole list of the new things that have been posted by others. I LOVE the sites - sorry you had a bad experience with whatever it was you belonged to. PS - the information stays right there in the site - email addresses and all That's why it is private and password protected. -------Original Message------- From: MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com Date: Monday, November 17, 2003 23:57:09 To: MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MDGARRET] New website I'm curious.... This new web site isn't one of those "closed" web sites places where you have to supply the sponsor with your guest's name and e-mail address before they can visit is it? Where they can only visit the site after they read this long list of legal mumbo-jumbo (which is usually written so that few people actually read through it all....much less understand it) terms that they must agree to before they can enter and use the site for the first time? Where once a guest visits... the sponsor then sends them little messages (whenever someone posts something new at the site) to click on a link provided in the message so they can visit the site again and see what's been added? . The reason I ask is that I made the mistake of visiting a site like that a few years ago and after a while I began to notice that I would get this increase in SPAM after each visit. Finally put two and two together and made some inquiries..... Seems the folks who sponsor many of these so-called "free" but "closed" sites do so because it provides them with a means of collecting what they know to be active/valid e-mail addresses. They use and/or sell these e-mail addresses for SPAM purposes. They get away with this under the claim that it's not SPAM because the guest freely supplied their name & email address plus agreed to receive advertisements from them an/or their associates. Every time a person visits or revisits one of these "closed sites" it confirms that their email address is still valid and active. . Sponsoring genealogy websites is especially popular among those wanting to compile valid/active e-mail address lists because genealogists make up such a large percentage of today's Internet users. . Hmmm? ----- Original Message ----- From: Terrie Smith <terrie7@alltel.net> To: <MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 2:23 PM Subject: [MDGARRET] New website > There is a new forum type website on MyFamily.com called Western Maryland: Including Garrett and Allegany Counties. This forum allows posting of pictures and other documents. The site is brand new and there is not much there. But, it is expected to have a large response. If you are interested in joining us, please email me you first and last name alongwith your email address. Thank you Terrie Smith and Bonnie McCRoby Wuensche. > > terrie7@alltel.net > ==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== If you need help with this list, make sure to email the list administrator, Carol Hepburn, at chepburn@cox.net.

I'll reply off list if you don't mind Sam. Bye for now, Kathleen ----- Original Message ----- From: Samuel J. Bowser <bowsersa@pa.net> To: <MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 12:45 PM Subject: Re: [MDGARRET] New website > Sounds like you're describing ancestry.com. I belong to it, > and that's exactly the reason I have no intention of putting > my data in their "My Family" or whatever they call it.com. > > One day I'll put it on rootsweb where anyone can access it > without going through Ancestry's rigamaro. > > Sam > > "K.Fitzgerald" wrote: > > > I'm curious.... > > This new web site isn't one of those "closed" web sites places where you > > have to supply the sponsor > > with your guest's name and e-mail address before they can visit is it?....<snip>

First, because I simply asked a question about the SPONSORS of a new website...(not of YOU or the people who are already members of it) after having a bad experience in the past.... you insulted me saying I would not fit in with "nice and trusting people". You don't apologize to me for the insult but you do apologize to the list, using as your excuse,for insulting me in front of this list, you had no idea it was going out to everyone. THEN, when you DID know your post was going out to the entire list.....you proceed to insult me again...you tell everyone that you hope MY ignorance will not put anyone off. Thank you so very much nice person. ----- Original Message ----- From: Terrie Smith <terrie7@alltel.net> To: <MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 9:20 AM Subject: [MDGARRET] Western Maryland site > Last night I responded to a letter and I had no idea it was going to the entire list. I am very sorry about the response I gave for all to see. I was more than a little irritated with the mistrust of her and a few more like her and I guess that probably showed. I have an obsession with genealogy and right now I think these sites are the best thing that has happened to online research. You have one gathering place for forum, inquiries and postings. Theres no catch and have initiated a plan to get all counties WV represented and I would hope it catches on to other states. I hope that how I reacted to the ignorance of one person will not put any of you off for joining the site. I had planned to admin the site along with Bonnie and think now that that would not be for the best. I will not be admin on the Garrett Co site and ask that you send your emails to Bonnie McCroby Wuensche at mccroby@hotmail.com. I will still be a member as my McCroby roots lie there too but I ! > will not admin and I do hope that any of you that were put off by my unintentional post will reconsider. Thank you, Terrie Smith > > > ==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== > If you need help with this list, make sure to email the list administrator, Carol Hepburn, at chepburn@cox.net. >

Hi Everyone, I called the audio-visual service I've used in the past to duplicate my VHS tapes. Here's what I was told. They can transfer your VHS tapes to DVD. I didn't ask what that would cost as there would be many variables (i.e., length of the VHS tapes, how many would fit on one DVD, and how many copies you'd want of the DVD). Walmart may even be able to do that for you inexpensively. Would make wonderful Christmas presents. Because VHS has two fields (audio and visual). You can only capture the audio to a CD (this is what the transcriptionists use to transcribe). This particular place I called charges $85/hr to pull still images off of VHS. They can do about 15-20 images/hr depending on how well organized the information is that you give them. He explained that if you "zero out the counter" and then note at what time the pictures appear on the VHS, they can maximize the process. The software I mentioned before "Snappy or Snap It" may have some "motion jitter or bluriness." I saw a demonstration years ago and although the freeze frame technology was great, I don't recall seeing a finished snapshot off of the equipment. The tech I spoke to said they can generally get a better quality photo than you would get using the software above. I hope this information helps some. At least you have some of the industry terminology to go forward. Lois Hetrick Stewart

Hi Kathy, Well I'm certainly glad to hear that not ALL "closed site" SPONSORS are taking advantage of nice people wanting to put together these closed genealogy sites. A friend and distant relative of mine was not so lucky when she started her closed genealogy site a few years ago. Her site SPONSOR sold her guests' names and addresses to a SPAM agency and the SPAM we would get was ridiculous. (There was even a piece on T.V. about the fellow who runs this SPAM agency earlier this year!) Most of it was just annoying but a fair share of it was just plain disgusting. Not the sort of stuff you'd want to download onto a family computer. Well, I needed to email another site guest one day and made a chance remark that lead to the discovery of what was going on. One of our grandsons (then 7 years old) lives with us, he was due home from school and had received an email from his half-brother. I mentioned to this person that I needed to close my email and "get the latest Porno SPAM cleaned out of my mailbox before he got home" and read his email. She wrote back saying she had a nasty SPAM problem too. We began comparing things, and realized the only on-line thing we had in common where our email addresses were concerned (besides email) was the closed site. We began asking the other site quests if they had begun having major SPAM problem since they started using the site. All said yes. When the friend (who'd started the site) addressed the SPAM issue to the site SPONSORS...she received a form message in response. It basically said that the SPONSORS and their assorted associates were allowed to use any information submitted to them....as outlined in the agreement everyone had to read before accessing the site, etc. After she tried to reply to the SPONSORS... she and all the site members found the links to her site no longer worked.....all we would get was a page saying the site we were seeking no longer existed. When my friend tried to contact the SPONSORS about THAT problem her email bounced. The message said they weren't accepting mail from her address. . We have no idea what became of all the information we'd all poured into that site over the months, but we learned to be very careful of things being offered free on the Internet. Everything has a price and I just like to know what the price is up front. As I said...I'm glad that not ALL of these site SPONSORS are taking advantage of nice people ----- Original Message ----- From: Kathy McRobie <rrobie@sbcglobal.net> To: <MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 8:19 AM Subject: Re: [MDGARRET] New website > I too belong to some myfamily sites. I have enjoyed reading what other people post. I have not had not spam from the site. You can decide for yourself if you want to recieve notification of every post, there is a check list to choose what you want delivered to your in box. I chose to have notification of new posted to my in-box because I don't want to miss a thing. There is alot of nice people that are members of the site and I am glad that i joined. <snip>

Please add me to this web site. Thanks, Leon Clark leonsclark@cox.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terrie Smith" <terrie7@alltel.net> To: <MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 4:23 PM Subject: [MDGARRET] New website | There is a new forum type website on MyFamily.com called Western Maryland: Including Garrett and Allegany Counties. This forum allows posting of pictures and other documents. The site is brand new and there is not much there. But, it is expected to have a large response. If you are interested in joining us, please email me you first and last name alongwith your email address. Thank you Terrie Smith and Bonnie McCRoby Wuensche. | | terrie7@alltel.net | | ______________________________

Lois--This is from PC Photo--wonderful magazine and site - www.pcphotomag.com. This article was written in Sept 2001. Movies on CD, specifically a format called Video CD or VCD, for short, was developed before DVD (Digital Versatile Disc). VCD is popular in Asia, though many DVD players can play VCDs. The main difference between the two formats is the compression method. VCD uses an MPEG1 compression scheme and DVD uses an MPEG2 compression technique. As the number at the end might imply, MPEG2 gives better results. Even though the DVD format has superior compression, both formats fall short for today's image files. The resolution of a single frame on a DVD is 720 x 480 pixels. MPEG1 on Video CD is 352 x 240. Digital photo images can be 1024 x 1280 or more. So you probably wouldn't want to use either for an archival format. For simple storage of files, you'd be using a CD-R (recordable) or DVD-RAM. You need a computer to access these discs as they won't be recognized in a set-top DVD player. These media are simply storage devices and really have no effect on image quality or resolution other than a DVD-RAM can hold more data. For example, if you have a 1800 x 1600-pixel image, it will still be the same 1800 x 1600 image on a CD-ROM or DVD-RAM. In Dec 2001, this article appeared: Video CD Is there a way to take digital images (JPEG, GIF, etc.) and create a Video CD that can be viewed on a television through a DVD player that's capable of showing Video CDs? Nicholas DiLisi Paoli, Pennsylvania A number of companies have now come out with programs that let you create a Video CD--a CD that will play in a DVD player. Oak Technology has a program called SimpliCD; Ulead has these capabilities in its VideoStudio 5.0 DVD Edition product. Using these programs, you're able to "burn" a CD-R that will act like a slide show (or video program) when inserted into a DVD player. First, a couple of caveats: 1) the DVD player must be capable of playing Video CDs that have been recorded on a CD-R; 2) a television doesn't have the resolution of your computer monitor, so your images won't look as good; 3) the Video CD format uses MPEG1 compression, so your images will be highly compressed. These programs are fairly easy to use, but they do require that images be in either JPEG or ".bmp" file format. They will look for an image size of 640 x 480, but if you have a larger image, it will be scaled to the proper size before being written to the CD. Thought this might help you with the questions you would want to ask. That was two years ago; perhaps technology has caught up. I did send Photo Mag a query as to whether or not this has changed. Will let you know what I find out. Mary Lois Melinat wrote: > Sam -- > > I have heard of the process of saving VHS tapes to DVD. I know our > send out company provides the service for something like $40 per VHS > tape to DVD. Unfortunately, I have not talked to anyone that has > actually done that so far. It would not surprise me to find that > becoming more common -- especially with some of the very new > camcorders recording directly onto DVD. > > Lois Melinat > > >> From: "Samuel J. Bowser" <bowsersa@pa.net> >> Reply-To: MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com >> To: MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [MDGARRET] DVD STORAGE for VCR tapes >> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 16:38:02 -0500 >> >> The recent messages regarding storing data and photos >> has been interesting and enlightening. >> >> I wonder if anyone has had any success saving VCR tapes >> to disk? >> >> I have tapes I took in the early to mid 1990's including family >> reunions and visits to ancestor's homesteads that I would like >> to put on DVD sometime down the road. I tried a "Dazzle" >> capture device about 3 years ago with bad results; thought >> maybe someone else may have had a better experience more >> recently. >> >> Sam >> >> >> >> >> ==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== >> If you need help with this list, make sure to email the list >> administrator, Carol Hepburn, at chepburn@cox.net. >> > > _________________________________________________________________ > Frustrated with dial-up? Get high-speed for as low as $26.95. > https://broadband.msn.com (Prices may vary by service area.) > > > ==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== > If you need help with this list, make sure to email the list > administrator, Carol Hepburn, at chepburn@cox.net. > >

I just wanted to know what kind of site this was. I'm sorry you think I wouldn't fit in with nice people like you. Have a nice life. ----- Original Message ----- From: Terrie Smith <terrie7@alltel.net> To: <MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 10:38 PM Subject: Re: [MDGARRET] New website > You know, suit yourself if you want to join. I pay for this "so called free > site" and I invite people who what to be there. I am on 40 sites and admin > 3 of them. I wanted a way for all to have access to the same genealogy > information in one spot. It is closed -it is by invite only - if anyone > wants to join they email me. I have never rec'd spam. There is nothing in > it for me other than helping others while I am helping myself. But I will > NOT try to convince someone who does not want to be there-between my job > myfamily and my genealogy obsession I do not have time for cohersing someone > who is wasting my time. You want an invite - you email and ask me for it. > I do not care either way. I do not care what kind of sales you get in spam > I receive none from the site. Anymore questions go and read the "LEGAL > MUMBLE JUMBLE". I don't think you would like our site anyway -way too many > nice and trusting people. You just would not fit in. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "K.Fitzgerald" <gmakf@earthlink.net> > To: <MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 4:09 AM > Subject: Re: [MDGARRET] New website > > > > I'm curious.... > > This new web site isn't one of those "closed" web sites places where you > > have to supply the sponsor > > with your guest's name and e-mail address before they can visit is it? > Where > > they can > > only visit the site after they read this long list of legal > > mumbo-jumbo (which is usually written so that few people actually read > > through it all....much less understand it) terms that they must agree to > > before > > they can enter and use the site for the first time? Where once a guest > > visits... the sponsor then sends them little messages (whenever someone > > posts > > something new at the site) to click on a link provided in > > the message so they can visit the site again and see what's been added? > > . > > The reason I ask is that I made the mistake of visiting a site like that a > > few years ago and after a while > > I began to notice that I would get this increase in SPAM after each visit. > > Finally put two and two together and made some inquiries..... > > Seems the folks who sponsor many of these so-called "free" but "closed" > > sites do so because it provides them with a means of collecting what they > > know to be active/valid e-mail addresses. They use and/or sell these > e-mail > > addresses for SPAM purposes. They get away with this under the claim that > > it's > > not SPAM because the guest freely supplied their name & email address plus > > agreed > > to receive advertisements from them an/or their associates. > > Every time a person visits or revisits one of these "closed sites" it > > confirms that their email address is still valid and active. > > . > > Sponsoring genealogy websites is especially popular among those wanting to > > compile valid/active e-mail address lists because genealogists make up > such > > a > > large percentage of today's Internet users. > > . > > Hmmm? > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Terrie Smith <terrie7@alltel.net> > > To: <MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 2:23 PM > > Subject: [MDGARRET] New website > > > > > > > There is a new forum type website on MyFamily.com called Western > Maryland: > > Including Garrett and Allegany Counties. This forum allows posting of > > pictures and other documents. The site is brand new and there is not much > > there. But, it is expected to have a large response. If you are > interested > > in joining us, please email me you first and last name alongwith your > email > > address. Thank you Terrie Smith and Bonnie McCRoby Wuensche. > > > > > > terrie7@alltel.net > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== > > If you need help with this list, make sure to email the list > administrator, Carol Hepburn, at chepburn@cox.net. > > > > > > > > ==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== > Looking for your Garrett County ancestors? Make sure to visit us on the web at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdgarret/index.html >

Sam -- I have heard of the process of saving VHS tapes to DVD. I know our send out company provides the service for something like $40 per VHS tape to DVD. Unfortunately, I have not talked to anyone that has actually done that so far. It would not surprise me to find that becoming more common -- especially with some of the very new camcorders recording directly onto DVD. Lois Melinat >From: "Samuel J. Bowser" <bowsersa@pa.net> >Reply-To: MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com >To: MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [MDGARRET] DVD STORAGE for VCR tapes >Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 16:38:02 -0500 > >The recent messages regarding storing data and photos >has been interesting and enlightening. > >I wonder if anyone has had any success saving VCR tapes >to disk? > >I have tapes I took in the early to mid 1990's including family >reunions and visits to ancestor's homesteads that I would like >to put on DVD sometime down the road. I tried a "Dazzle" >capture device about 3 years ago with bad results; thought >maybe someone else may have had a better experience more >recently. > >Sam > > > > >==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== >If you need help with this list, make sure to email the list administrator, >Carol Hepburn, at chepburn@cox.net. > _________________________________________________________________ Frustrated with dial-up? Get high-speed for as low as $26.95. https://broadband.msn.com (Prices may vary by service area.)

I'm curious.... This new web site isn't one of those "closed" web sites places where you have to supply the sponsor with your guest's name and e-mail address before they can visit is it? Where they can only visit the site after they read this long list of legal mumbo-jumbo (which is usually written so that few people actually read through it all....much less understand it) terms that they must agree to before they can enter and use the site for the first time? Where once a guest visits... the sponsor then sends them little messages (whenever someone posts something new at the site) to click on a link provided in the message so they can visit the site again and see what's been added? . The reason I ask is that I made the mistake of visiting a site like that a few years ago and after a while I began to notice that I would get this increase in SPAM after each visit. Finally put two and two together and made some inquiries..... Seems the folks who sponsor many of these so-called "free" but "closed" sites do so because it provides them with a means of collecting what they know to be active/valid e-mail addresses. They use and/or sell these e-mail addresses for SPAM purposes. They get away with this under the claim that it's not SPAM because the guest freely supplied their name & email address plus agreed to receive advertisements from them an/or their associates. Every time a person visits or revisits one of these "closed sites" it confirms that their email address is still valid and active. . Sponsoring genealogy websites is especially popular among those wanting to compile valid/active e-mail address lists because genealogists make up such a large percentage of today's Internet users. . Hmmm? ----- Original Message ----- From: Terrie Smith <terrie7@alltel.net> To: <MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 2:23 PM Subject: [MDGARRET] New website > There is a new forum type website on MyFamily.com called Western Maryland: Including Garrett and Allegany Counties. This forum allows posting of pictures and other documents. The site is brand new and there is not much there. But, it is expected to have a large response. If you are interested in joining us, please email me you first and last name alongwith your email address. Thank you Terrie Smith and Bonnie McCRoby Wuensche. > > terrie7@alltel.net >

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In a message dated 11/16/2003 5:43:42 PM Pacific Standard Time, gradya3@yahoo.com writes: > The industry is just trying to bully everyone into getting dv cameras and > dvd players when gazillions of us want to use our existing tapes, cameras and > players so when we are done and want to show our tapes to people they pretty > much all have a vcr. Art, I agree. This is the area where we need to focus. Hopefully I will learn something tomorrow. The new VCRs have both the VHS and DVD capability and they are a lot less expensive than they used to be. Lois Hetrick Stewart

I have several VHF tapes full of wonderful family history. We were planning to buy "Snappy" software to enable taking snap shots off of the tapes. There was a way you could freeze frame the tape and capture the picture. You could also move it frame by frame to get the best shot. I went as far as purchasing a small color TV with VCR for my office so I could do the transfer, but we never went any further than checking on the software. I think the software is still around; however, I'm going to call an audio/visual company tomorrow (if I remember) to see what capabilities are out there. I will get back to the list with any information I'm able to glean. I know there is equipment (a peddle) and software you can buy in order to transcribe WAV files directly from your CPU. That's how they transcribe video conferences. We opted to buy a digital camera this year even though current camcorders have a snapshot capability. Problem is the resolution is not as good as the camera. We can copy the sound track from DVDs on our CD read/write, but that's no help to capture the photos. If you could freeze frame from the DVD, that would be optimal. Maybe I'll get some good scoop tomorrow. I bet, if the technology isn't here yet, it's in the planning stages. Lois Hetrick Stewart In a message dated 11/16/2003 5:16:31 PM Pacific Standard Time, loism63@hotmail.com writes: > Sam -- > > I have heard of the process of saving VHS tapes to DVD. I know our send out > > company provides the service for something like $40 per VHS tape to DVD. > Unfortunately, I have not talked to anyone that has actually done that so > far. It would not surprise me to find that becoming more common -- > especially with some of the very new camcorders recording directly onto DVD. > > Lois Melinat > > > >From: "Samuel J. Bowser" <bowsersa@pa.net> > >Reply-To: MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com > >To: MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com > >Subject: [MDGARRET] DVD STORAGE for VCR tapes > >Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 16:38:02 -0500 > > > >The recent messages regarding storing data and photos > >has been interesting and enlightening. > > > >I wonder if anyone has had any success saving VCR tapes > >to disk? > > > >I have tapes I took in the early to mid 1990's including family > >reunions and visits to ancestor's homesteads that I would like > >to put on DVD sometime down the road. I tried a "Dazzle" > >capture device about 3 years ago with bad results; thought > >maybe someone else may have had a better experience more > >recently. > > > >Sam >

Which Moses is this? McKenzie, Moses died at his residence near the village of Cresaptown the 10th day of January 1873, aged 93 years. He was the oldest citizen of Allegany Co and was born and reared here. (Jan. 18, 1873) I suppose it his James Moses McKenzie (1893-1873) m. Margaret Alice Porter (1804-1890), although the birthdate, if he were 93, would be 1780, not 1793. According to researchers at Ancestry....Daniel McKenzie and Mary Ann Chapman... I have no proof of this...putting it on my database now... Is this the correct Moses? Betty Smith csmith655@comcast.net

I work with editing video every week. I have a number of systems, but my favorite one is not too high powered and works well. I added a Pinnacle Studio capture card that captures VHS. It has composite and svhs in and out and uses the computers sound card for sound in and out. It cost about $130 on sale and the software that came with it called Pinnacle Studio is easy to learn and has quiet a few tools and features that let you edit easily, add captions, transitions, voice over, music from cds. I also added a fire wire port to that computer so I can enter or play out using a minidv videocamera. I had to add RAM and a second hard drive. Newer systems have more of what is needed so less has to be added. I work with tape footage up to about 25 minutes (even new computers can be very challenged by video files from longer tapes than that) usually ending up with 5 to 15 minute edited tapes. If the computer has a cd burner you can burn avi files which can be played on computers ! that have Windows media player, Real Player, or Quicktime. My new system at home has a dv burner so I could make dvds which would play in dvd players. One thing to watch out for is that newer machines and software might not be compatible without buying more parts and equipment with all those priceless vhs tapes we have accumulated over the years. You have to be careful that what you buy says it is compatible for input and output of analog video signal or you might get something that will only work with dv played in from a dv camera. The industry is just trying to bully everyone into getting dv cameras and dvd players when gazillions of us want to use our existing tapes, cameras and players so when we are done and want to show our tapes to people they pretty much all have a vcr. Art "Samuel J. Bowser" <bowsersa@pa.net> wrote: The recent messages regarding storing data and photos has been interesting and enlightening. I wonder if anyone has had any success saving VCR tapes to disk? I have tapes I took in the early to mid 1990's including family reunions and visits to ancestor's homesteads that I would like to put on DVD sometime down the road. I tried a "Dazzle" capture device about 3 years ago with bad results; thought maybe someone else may have had a better experience more recently. Sam ==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== If you need help with this list, make sure to email the list administrator, Carol Hepburn, at chepburn@cox.net. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard

Terrie & Bonnie, Thank you. I would like to join the new site. Lynn Alan McGriff mcgrila2@aol.com

There is a new forum type website on MyFamily.com called Western Maryland: Including Garrett and Allegany Counties. This forum allows posting of pictures and other documents. The site is brand new and there is not much there. But, it is expected to have a large response. If you are interested in joining us, please email me you first and last name alongwith your email address. Thank you Terrie Smith and Bonnie McCRoby Wuensche. terrie7@alltel.net

The recent messages regarding storing data and photos has been interesting and enlightening. I wonder if anyone has had any success saving VCR tapes to disk? I have tapes I took in the early to mid 1990's including family reunions and visits to ancestor's homesteads that I would like to put on DVD sometime down the road. I tried a "Dazzle" capture device about 3 years ago with bad results; thought maybe someone else may have had a better experience more recently. Sam

After a long and extended absense, I am now able to re-join this wonderful list! I am still researching my Knox family . . . and I'm STILL on the lookout for Simeon Knox Sr., who died ere 1860, husband of Charlotte Wiland. I have gotten several emails from people "off list", and will reply to everyone as soon as I can with the information requested. Thanks for thinking of me with Knox information over the summer and into the fall. Happy Thanksgiving to all! Beth