tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793782800729950147.post4938474294859661397..comments2024-03-26T21:29:07.190-07:00Comments on Rejoice, and be exceeding glad...: A Family History Mission: Preparing documents for digitizationJames Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793782800729950147.post-44131781545873305372018-05-21T19:29:51.878-07:002018-05-21T19:29:51.878-07:00Thank you so much! As a Maryland citizen I especia...Thank you so much! As a Maryland citizen I especially appreciate your efforts. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13315419429508710786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793782800729950147.post-47829875809145467762018-05-21T03:50:52.460-07:002018-05-21T03:50:52.460-07:00Anytime a document is handled, there is a potentia...Anytime a document is handled, there is a potential that the document could be damaged. For the most part, these documents have not been touched since they were originally filed and a few of them are fragile. If the document is too fragile, we send them to conservation to be humidified and flattened. Some of them also have mold and those are marked and sent to conservation to be irradiated. It is a complicated process. But most of the documents can be handled without any problems. I will write more about this topic in the near future. James Tannerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793782800729950147.post-61560219904179427352018-05-20T11:12:50.371-07:002018-05-20T11:12:50.371-07:00I didn't mean to imply that you were damaging ...I didn't mean to imply that you were damaging documents. I know you aren't. Some of the records you are working with are so old, I thought they might be dried out and brittle. Is the humidity in the archives itself 93% !?! I know it can be that high outside in Maryland in the summer.Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01572739124200052085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793782800729950147.post-42321816441700420592018-05-19T12:58:54.758-07:002018-05-19T12:58:54.758-07:00Any documents that might be damaged are processed ...Any documents that might be damaged are processed before being digitized. Yes, but the humidity here is about 93% anyway. That is a good question, but the documents are not being destroyed by what we do. James Tannerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793782800729950147.post-84537067212420004932018-05-19T12:55:37.839-07:002018-05-19T12:55:37.839-07:00Probably because it didn't come through the pr...Probably because it didn't come through the proper indexing process. They probably do not have a way to support some other indexing method. James Tannerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793782800729950147.post-11762072586561423212018-05-19T11:16:12.760-07:002018-05-19T11:16:12.760-07:00Are any of these documents humidified to make it e...Are any of these documents humidified to make it easier to unfold them without damaging them?Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01572739124200052085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793782800729950147.post-85314286119774016022018-05-19T07:48:20.632-07:002018-05-19T07:48:20.632-07:00The target sheet data, which include the name and ...The target sheet data, which include the name and date of the image, is input into a spread sheet and used for the way point entry onto the image. It is verified at each step of the process as shown in the blog. When looking at the family search posting of the images, it is noted as Not Indexed. Why? Something about a horse and water comes to mind.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15170724718675499826noreply@blogger.com