Archive Proposal From Doug

Should We Establish Some Archives for Photos and Documents?

Doug's Proposal

 Here is his complete e-mail on May 9, 2020:

Subject: Archive

This may seem a little long but is really quite simple.  And perhaps no one is interested and that is OK.  Lets discuss this on Sunday and see if there is any interest. 

It seems like there are 2 kinds of information we want to pass on to future generations. Photos is an obvious class.  The other type of information is written documents. This would include genealogical documents, obituaries, and other historical documents.  

Pictures were often stored in a shoe box and passed on to children in no particular order.  The destination was often the dustbin. Genealogical records were often stored in a courthouse or in a cemetery providing hours of interest for people like Doris and George.  

Here is my proposal and hopefully we can discuss the drawbacks and features on Sunday.  Richard and I have been discussing this and here are some ideas for discussion.  Store pictures in a Google Docs account.  Use the existing Meinhard Family Diary that Richard has created for documents.  

Google will store an unlimited number of low res pictures. I will also create a flash drive to send to anyone that wants the original scanned image. I will send a complete set of scanned images on a flash drive with all the pictures that Doris et. al. have sent me to be scanned.  Richard has a good start on the documents library.  

Go to:

https://meinhardfamilydiary.blogspot.com/    for the documents library.

For the pictures library use the Gmail account meinhardsamsel@gmail.com 

 If you have Gmail open then you will need to go to the upper right hand corner and add the account.  You can have multiple Gmail accounts open at one time.

Donna's Zoom meeting on May 10

Let's determine what sites we want to use and who might wants to paticipate.

To do that, let's look at the sites during the meeting, discuss, and decide.
If we decide to juse the sites, we can devote part of another Zoom meeting to the technical details.