Genealogy

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...

 Periodically devices die. I seem to have a collection of backup strategies that did not work for assorted reasons. (What do you mean CDs become unreadable?) Yet again a friend (you both know who you are) helped take my old computer apart and pull stuff off my hard drive. But it is more than. An environment that understands the files is also needed. As expected this is going to be a long slow process. Today I bought an upgrade license for Reunion13 and got support to look up my old license to Reunion9. (Time to start keeping records of license numbers.) Opened a copy of the old file, and accepted the option to convert the file format. It then gave an error about missing media files. Woot! This was to be expected and is clearly the next step.  For a small, sample it worked! This enables me to look at the branch in the spotlight this week. So I have a bit of a mess with  4 versions of information: familysearch on internet - built with a bit of knowlege and approximately 20...