Why is it that no matter how much I get done in a day, I don’t feel like I got enough done. Anyway, the genealogy site on Rootsweb Freepages is up to date. I made some changes and have alot to add but at least it matches the blog now. Take a look here.
GetAlong got a load out of LA and is headed to Colorado again. Sweetpea’s party went fine.
Since I worked on the website instead of a post today - I’ll show you GetAlong’s antique tractor.
We haven’t seen GetAlong in the last 2 weeks and that was only for a quick stop at McDonald’s near home. Truth was he was on his way to Oregon and needed some chains he left at the house and wanted me to bring them to him. Oregon requires that chains be readily available (on the truck somewhere) during any inclement weather. He barely had time to swallow the burger. He’s in California right now, delivering a load in the Los Angeles area. It was a good paying load, although oversized, and he wasn’t passing it up. After all he’s got four new tires to pay for and the broker “promised” she could get him a good load out of LA. We’ll see.
Sweetpea is looking for another job. I made her quit the last one because her grades were slipping. Actually she was in danger of failing two classes, geometry and chemistry. She has A’s in most everything else. But she pulled through and passed both classes. She has an interview on Monday. Her dance teacher is putting in a good word for her at a local dancewear store. I’m a little concerned that it is too far to drive though. Her old truck drinks fuel like Mona and Birddog drink water. She’s going to a party down the road tonight. I’ve got my fingers crossed for that.
As for me, I’m doing yard work this weekend. If it doesn’t rain soon the grass will be totally brown. I’ve been hearing thunder for two days but only a few drops of rain have managed to hit the ground. I water some here and there but the yard is too big. Besides I can’t get enough water pressure to do much for the other end of the yard. Well water has its down side. But I’ve got lots of bushes to trim and what not. Somehow they continue to grow.
Then I have to get caught up on GetAlong’s books. The more I do the less an accountant has to do and since I won’t spend money on an accountant that means I do alot. I also plan to do some more scanning this weekend. Now if I could just convince GetAlong to take a load to Tennessee and do some genealogical research for me, I would have it made. He actually did that for me once. He was stuck in Pennsylvania one weekend and I just happened to mention that there was a house I really wanted pictures of just across the Delaware line. He went and this is what I got.
These pictures are of the oldest surviving remnant of my ancestral family in this country. The house was built by Simon and Ruth Hadley in 1717. The date is inscribed on the home which still stands, although much improved, in New Castle County, Delaware near the Pennsylvania border. Simon is said to have been murdered in the stone barn, possibly the one pictured above. The property was once known as Mill Creek Hundred and was built in the heart of the Quaker community. I’m sure the present owners humor Hadley descendants quite frequently but they weren’t home this time.
Just wanted to take a break with some digital scrapbooking. Misty Cato is another one of my favorite digital designers. Her papers and elements are always bright and colorful. I also have to say that I have learned alot from Misty because she has so many great tutorials and examples on her blog. Misty’s designs can be found at the Sweet Shoppe.
(Digital scrapbooking credit: “High Impact” by Misty Cato.)
Charlie McCollum was the son of Newman Theodore McCollum and Susan Caroline Nichols of Fayette County, Alabama. He was born November 19, 1854 and died January 27, 1940. He’s buried in Lockney, Floyd County, Texas.
This is Charlie with his second wife, Martha Merriwether. I am told that they and their dog travelled around the country in this vehicle that had been transformed into a motorhome of sorts. Apparently, Charlie had foresight…
and a better back than I do. It looks like he had a lot more patience for sleeping in cramped quarters than I ever dreamed of. Surely, at that age, he had to have had a backache every morning. I don’t know how they did it.
This photo was taken on one of their extended vacations. I have wondered for years about where it was taken. They appear to be dressed for cooler weather. They are standing on stone steps and there are cone shaped structures in the background. There is also a pond of some kind directly behind them. Maybe a spring of some kind?
If anyone can identify the locality of this photo, I would really appreciate it. I’m thinking Arizona or something.
On Friday I explained that I have been planning to scan all my genealogical source material into the computer for quite some time. This would make locating and retrieving documents much easier.
A year and a half ago I purchased the scanner and software but was hesitant to begin the project for fear I had not chosen the proper means to complete it successfully. I didn’t want to get well into a massive project only to find out it wouldn’t work the way I planned. After additional research I decided to proceed with the PaperPort 10 software produced by Scansoft.
Installation was easy. I installed to the default C drive because I still have 137 GB of space left. Now I don’t want to get too many documents on this drive so I need to monitor how fast the space is being eaten up by the files scanned in. I could have purchased a larger external drive but I didn’t want the extra expense if the software did not perform as I expected. I can add a drive later for more file storage. Moving documents already scanned in at a later time may be tricky. That’s also something to consider. The database being built by PaperPort may not handle a change in file path very well. I also had no problems with the software detecting the scanner.
From this point on, be sure to have the scanner ON when you open PaperPort, otherwise the scanner will not be detected. Place the document on the scanner. The other reason I preferred to use PaperPort 10 is that I will be able to scan multipage documents into a single PDF file. If you are going to do multipage documents I highly recommend getting a scanner with an Automatic Document Feeder. Make sure you uncheck the item “Create Single Page Items”. To begin, select “Document”, then “Settings”. This is where you will name the file (I’m using a sequential numbering system), select the file type, resolution, document size and mode (B&W or color). Click “OK”, then “Scan”. You will be asked if there are more pages to be scanned for this document.
When the scan is complete, the image will appear in the space to the right. As you keep scanning, all the documents will appear in order. You can scroll down to view all files. If you scanned a multipage document, there will be an image for each page but they will appear to be “stacked” and shown as a single file.
I then placed the scanned item in a page protector with a label showing the name given to the file as it was scanned. Although we are trying to alleviate the need to constantly pull items from the filing cabinets to review, there may be a time when you need the original. The items will then be placed in a binder in sequential order matching the file system created in the computer. This makes finding the original effortless.
Next time we will discuss tagging and searching for scanned files.
ScanSoft PaperPort 11
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