Genealogy

I have been scanning and transcribing letters. I have started thinking of gathering them with a TOC and index. Google Docs is where the result of that are, however it does not support embedded documents; Neither does Apple pages. Microsoft Office 365 might be a last resort, but I remembered another. My family tree software, GRAMPS, supports reports in LibreOffice. Found some documentation showing it could do some of the things I am trying for. (Please forgive me for overlapping with my previous blog entry. ) help  https://help.libreoffice. org/7.4/en-US/text/swriter/ main0503.html?&DbPAR=WRITER& System=WIN writers guide  https://books. libreoffice.org/en/WG73/ WG7315-TOCsIndexesBiblios. html#toc27   Created a template with Title, Copyright, TOC, Chapter, Index, header/footer. The TOC seems to work. Went back and played with an early page break, using insert instead of ctl+enter  to ignore page numbers on title pages. Created a master (book)  magically wi...

As I make progress scanning in these old letters, I am trying to figure out how to best organize the letters for myself and others within the family My first thought is to organize just sequentially. However I am now wondering if what I see as family newsletters should be separated from the private hand written letters. And what of those few that came from a different family member? I have a bunch of files named by YYYYMMDDdesc. The pictures are on one drive and have Google docs with images and text transcriptions. I had hoped sorting these by name would put them in chronological order. Not sure why that failed. Second of all not all of the letters were dated - since a tilde seemed like a bad idea in a filename I used ish. I tried to guess based on content, or even what the letters before and after were. Sigh. A nice thing about the Google docs, is I have been sharing (comment) with the archive owner, who is appreciative of my effort. Having both images and text seems redundant. For hi...