At 10:11 PM 9/24/06 -0400, you wrote:
I have found that waiting for someone else to get genealogy
information
online is a long lonely wait.
Sorry, Mike, I'm typing as fast as I can. Of course in my case, I have to
keep moving a cat's tail out of my view as he likes to sit on top of the
monitor and dangle his tail across the screen. This evening one was parked
by my mouse, one on the monitor and one laying beside the keyboard so that
I had to work over / around him to find some keys.
In the last 3 weeks, I have taken 2,600 digital photos of tombstones
in
the northern half of Chippewa County, MN. It takes about 250 photos per
hour. Some need to be retaken. Some need manually reading then adding the
information to the side of the tombstone in the photos. I will continue
taking pics until the snow falls. Then I am spending the winter going
through each photo, entering data in Excel, using Excel to generate indexes
and html coding.
Just how close do you frame each stone? I suppose lighting is an issue as
well and sometimes the stone makeup? Do you have a database program you
could use instead of Excel? It sure makes indexing and coding a lot easier.
I do hope though seriously that the snow takes some time yet before falling
as we plan to come to MN the first weekend in October, then over to Door
County, WI on Lake Michigan before returning home to TN.
This weekend it rained all day Sat and most of Sunday was volunteering
to
pick grapes from a nearby vineyard. And I spent early Sat photographing
(one hour, 15 mins) a cemetery in Bunde, MN only to find out I photographed
a cemetery in Roseland, MN in Kandiyohi County. And Sunday evening I
managed to photograph half of Zion Lutheran cemetery NW of Watson, MN. I
have a Canon Powershot with 128 meg memory card which seems to hold about
300 small pics even though it advertises over 600. I use rechargeable
batteries.
Do you prefer a particular brand of battery? That's my major irk with
digital cameras - eating batteries too fast.
Tim Stowell
Chattanooga