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Dont forget the acid free envelopes fir the films :)]Dan<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/29/2016 09:50 AM, Kith-n-Kin
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">You are
absolutely right, Layne! How we keep "stuff" is most
important. How we "see" it is, I would say, time specific.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Yes, I do enjoy
reading the newspapers and all the other digitized items,
but I am very concerned about program extinction, where the
program creating the file no longer exists -- not only with
the digitized films, but of our own digital images -- I've
got some that were done so long ago that nothing will read
them. Fortunately, not critical.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">On the other
hand, sometimes rescanning the original documents is very
important. The digitizing in gray-scale of censuses is
frequently far superior to the black and white of the early
efforts. Much more data can be squeezed out. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I remember my
first forays into reading censuses on microfilm/fiche was at
the Oregon Archives. I was so excited! Some had some
significant black "shadow" that prevented us from really
reading all the information, but I was so happy to get what
I could.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Now, of course,
spoiled rotten, "we" tend to expect much more than is
reasonable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thank you for
this additional information. I think we all learned
something today!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Pat</span><br>
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