Not Just Nuclear: Families are elders long buried and generations yet unborn

Post by monkeydreams » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 12:22 AM UTC

macspoofing wrote: post #37

PartiallyTyped wrote: post #29

I come from South Eastern Europe and lived quite a bit with my grandparents, my parents are split though. The experience wasn't really good. Older people tend to have a very fixed and opinionated idea of what is good or 'correct' that does not match the reality. I heard for the best part of my adolescence and childhood that 'sitting in-front of a computer will not put food on your plate'. Guess who studied CompSci? S…

>I heard for the best part of my adolescence and childhood that 'sitting in-front of a computer will not put food on your plate'. To be fair to your grandparents, large amount of screen time is not good for children and teenagers. And let's face it, if you were like a typical teenager, your screen time was largely devoted to gaming or other non-academic endeavors. I suspect when you have children of your own, you'll…

To be fair, it would be good for the world if our elders had a little less screentime.

Post by mattbk1 » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 4:28 PM UTC

1MachineElf wrote: post #57

mattbk1 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't have to put your tree in Ancestry and pay monthly, especially if you have hosting somewhere. Webtrees is good software. If you are associated with a university, you may have access to an Ancestry subscription for free through the library. Set up a system for digital files and naming conventions on your local machine to back up any documentation you add to an online tree. Family tree software should all oper…

I have some questions for you too. I have a goal of digitizing photo albums, photo slides, VHS, camcorder tapes, and 8mm tape reels that had been kept by my grandmother. What software tools did you use to organize your archive? How did you add the metadata?

This is ahem something I am not good at. Currently I use DigiKam[1] for general photos, but I don't include extensive metadata on files themselves.

All my resources are kept in a single directory, with subfolders generally using "lastname, firstname m" naming. I don't do as much cross-referencing (shortcutting) as I should, but that's also handled to some degree in the GEDCOM and full-text search of the filesystem.

[1] https://www.digikam.org/

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