A pro for .PDF is that if you ever want to change back to an editable text document there are free (and also costly) software programs that can convert a .PDF but I don't know of any that can convert a .jpg to editable text. Jerry Fillebrown RUFTR -----Original Message----- From: tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Taryn L. Phelan via Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 12:12 PM To: Christopher Gray Cc: <tmg@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [TMG] Organizing and Editing Sources. In particular, Emails. Delete or Keep? I am playing around with everyone's suggestions about saving or deleting Emails as sources. What are the pros and cons to saving them as PDF's or downloading Irfanview and saving as JPG? Out of 500+ Emails, maybe 20 have two pages. The rest are mostly one page. I attempted to download Irfanview thru File Forum (Editors's Pick), but big red warning page came on when I hit download: "The Site Ahead contains Harmful Programs. Attackers on fileforum.betanews.com might attempt to trick you into installing programs that harm your browsing experience"...... Terry > On Aug 21, 2015, at 3:03 AM, Christopher Gray <Christopher.Gray@gray-ons.org> wrote: > > Good morning Terry, > > I would print as a PDF and keep it as an exhibit. > > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of Terry Phelan via > Sent: 21 August 2015 00:50 > To: tmg@rootsweb.com > Subject: [TMG] Organizing and Editing Sources. In particular, Emails. > Delete or Keep? > > Hi all, > I've decided to go through my Emails and delete as many as I could > since I have over 700 now. LOL. Probably 500 are Emails from distant > cousins that I wrote to when I discovered them and they responded with > a plethora of info about their families. I added their info into TMG > and cited the Email with date, sender and recipient info, etc. In > paring down, I 've decided that I certainly do not want to print out > hard copies and then delete the Emails since I do not want all that > paperwork. In many cases, I don't have this info anywhere else so I > have to cite a particular Email. I think I just really want to cite and delete the Email. > I am single, and my nieces and nephews are not interested in > genealogy nor would they ever read 500 Emails from strangers > discussing family info if I kept the Emails. Is it irresponsible of me > to use the source and delete it when it is the only proof of new > people, their data and info about their families? If these were > conversations that we had, the source would have no hard copy to back > it up. Or even the source Personal Knowledge has no hard copy back up. > AOL only allows me to archive these Emails in AOL mail so I can't > even copy or move them to a personal file on my computer. I'm not sure > if I want all this data anymore. I'm on overload with trying to be the > family recorder and much of this is from very distant relatives. I > already have two file cabinets at my house with birth, marriage, and > death certs (paper copies) of my closer relatives. I have also scanned > these and put them in my computer file. Too many papers! > What are your thoughts on keeping these Emails of every person > you've ever researched because it is now a source in TMG? > Thanks, Terry > > > > The TMG archive is found here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message