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"Ian Goddard" <goddai01@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message 
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> Paul Blair wrote:
>> On 29-Jul-2010 9:20 am, Wes Groleau wrote:
>>> On 07-27-2010 23:39, Steve Hayes wrote:
>>>> This is how I do it:
>>>
>>> I don't.
>>>
>>> I tried, and failed, even with systems not too dissimilar to
>>> the one you praise.
>>>
>>> Now, I scan them, enhance the digital copy with GraphicConverter,
>>> add it to my website, and reference it in a GEDCOM OBJE record.
>>> When worthwhile, a transcript can be part of the OBJE record or
>>> another OBJE or SOUR record.
>>>
>>> If it is a SOURce, then citing it on the INDI or FAM record
>>> takes care of the indexing. For some media, I make direct OBJE
>>> links in the INDI / FAM.
>>>
>>> SOURce records will use CALN, REPO, and other tags to identify
>>> the paper. No more copying and trying to organize physically.
>>>
>>> PhpGedView and webtrees both support this reasonably well.
>>>
>>> I'm sure many other programs do, too. Anyone want to name names?
>>>
>>
>> So you throw the paper out?  :-)
>
> One has to raise the question "what paper?".
>
> For one of my parishes transcripts of the registers up until the early 
> C18th were published in a couple of volumes about 1900.  The last price I 
> had for the pair was �195.  So what I actually use is a pair of PDFs 
> published at archive.org and Google books.  So my "paper" is entirely 
> electronic.
>
> -- 
> Ian
>
Surely paper records always have to be dealt with.  What about the 
photocopies collected at record offices and BMD certificates - and some may 
be lucky enough to have original documents?  That said, I do prefer to use 
electronic versions of records where available and I once tried 
(unsuccessfully!) to scan and catalogue my collection of paper, converting 
to PDFs using a program called Paperport.

Steve Hayes' solution to the indexing of paper files seems quite attractive 
but the idea of sequential numbering would not fit well with my expanding 
collection of lever-arch files, organised in categories, which are often 
reorganised as they overflow.  However, I would like to try it, if anyone 
can suggest a Windows alternative to RDF.

Roger