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From: "Kenneth Stallard" <>
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] I want to share a book
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 06:47:13 -0500
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Book scanning can be a job, but rewarding when it works. The following
worked for me on teacher contracts in a large ledger from the early 1900's:
I scanned the pages in 'grayscale', this gets rid of any yellowing of the
pages. I opened the scan in my photo imaging program and set the size to 7
inches width (with auto proportioning on, the height sets automatically). I
then copied the resized photo and pasted it into my web page. If you want
to see the results, go to:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~whitetwp/index.htm .
From the home page, go to 'Schools', from 'Schools', go to 'Teachers' and
click on the thumbnails. There is one or two pages that I forgot to scan as
grayscale and scanned as a black and white document, so if you look for it,
you can see the difference in yellowing.

Kenny

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul & Stella" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 8:01 PM
Subject: [FreeHelp] I want to share a book


> I have a book that was published in 1867 titled "Genealogy and
> Ecclesiastical History". It's about the first church in New Britain,
Conn.
> I've been puzzling over several different ways to get the contents out to
> the genealogical community. The book is nearly 600 pages and is indexed
> with over 800 surnames. I do have an account at Free Pages but haven't
> uploaded anything yet. I'm trying to figure out HTML - which until about
> two weeks ago was a mighty nasty word for me. I'm learning. I've done a
> lot of reading on Betsy's help site, as well as other places, and looked
at
> a lot of FreePages sites.
> What I really would like to be able to do is scan the book and upload
it
> a page at a time. I have been able to use the "img-scr" feature in HTML
and
> read the page in my browser. However, when I scan so I can get the pages
> down to around 50 kb, I can't read them. Would I be better off to put the
> indexes (there are two) into a very simple data base (last name, first
name,
> middle name or initial and title), upload that, get Free Find for
searching
> and then just type the book?
> Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks a bunch.
> Stella
>
> ______________________________

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