I need to know the best way to handle obits. I have collected many obits, some are typed in Microsoft word and some are scanned original or clipped from newspapers. I use FrontPage and still use the Rootsweb server. I want to know if I need to create a page for each obit or if there is a way to link to an individual obit in other ways. Any ideas appreciated would like the easiest, fastest way to get them online since there are so many of them. I have considered linking to the person's name in the cemetery listing and/or creating a separate tab for obits. I don't know code but am willing to learn simple methods. Thanks Suzanne Sowell (San Augustine County)

Suzanne, I would treat them as photographs and put them in a folder labeled "Obits." Then at the grave listing on a cemetery page you just need a link to where it's stored. Are you going to allow users to download the obits? If not, they can still do a screen capture for the image or Ctrl-C for plain text copy. Gale Gorman (Robertson Co.) Houston On Jan 6, 2014, at 3:30 PM, Suzanne Sowell <[email protected]> wrote: I need to know the best way to handle obits. I have collected many obits, some are typed in Microsoft word and some are scanned original or clipped from newspapers. I use FrontPage and still use the Rootsweb server. I want to know if I need to create a page for each obit or if there is a way to link to an individual obit in other ways. Any ideas appreciated would like the easiest, fastest way to get them online since there are so many of them. I have considered linking to the person's name in the cemetery listing and/or creating a separate tab for obits. I don't know code but am willing to learn simple methods. Thanks Suzanne Sowell (San Augustine County) ------------------------------- 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

The way I have handled situations like that is to save the obits or notes as a text file and link to them just as you would a photo from the cemetery listing. It would be best to convert the Word files to text because some of your viewers will not have a copy of word. You would need to make sure that the scans were in a format that all could see using a free software, i.e., pdf, jpg, etc. To put in a link, <a href="images/Photo.JPG" target="_blank">name or other text on your page you are linking to</a> (Photo link); <a href="images/Obit.txt" target="_blank">name or other text on your page you are linking to</a> (A text file link) Hope this helps, if it is confusing I will try to rephrase. Cliff Fargason Scurry County -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Suzanne Sowell Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 16:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [TXGEN] Posting obits I need to know the best way to handle obits. I have collected many obits, some are typed in Microsoft word and some are scanned original or clipped from newspapers. I use FrontPage and still use the Rootsweb server. I want to know if I need to create a page for each obit or if there is a way to link to an individual obit in other ways. Any ideas appreciated would like the easiest, fastest way to get them online since there are so many of them. I have considered linking to the person's name in the cemetery listing and/or creating a separate tab for obits. I don't know code but am willing to learn simple methods. Thanks Suzanne Sowell (San Augustine County) ------------------------------- 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

Suzanne, I have indexes that are listed on the cemetery page for Parker County. They are relatively new on the Parker site and it is probably a slower way of doing it. I wanted all of the death records (cemetery and obituaries) together. If I have an index of the cemetery, then I also link it from the cemetery listing. I would like to eventually set them up like Betsy has her cemetery records in Lamar County. Lela Parker & Palo Pinto Co, TXGenWeb Tallahatchie Co., MSGenWeb On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Suzanne Sowell <[email protected]>wrote: > I need to know the best way to handle obits. I have collected many obits, > some are typed in Microsoft word and some are scanned original or clipped > from newspapers. > > I use FrontPage and still use the Rootsweb server. > > I want to know if I need to create a page for each obit or if there is a > way to link to an individual obit in other ways. > > Any ideas appreciated would like the easiest, fastest way to get them > online since there are so many of them. I have considered linking to the > person's name in the cemetery listing and/or creating a separate tab for > obits. > > I don't know code but am willing to learn simple methods. > > Thanks > Suzanne Sowell (San Augustine County) > > ------------------------------- > 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 >