{"id":1643,"date":"2015-12-15T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2015-12-15T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T14:05:00","slug":"sourcing-digital-images-while-onsite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1643","title":{"rendered":"Sourcing Digital Images While Onsite"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Digital images made from photographs are great, but the challen\"osb-pictures\"ge when making them at a library a distance from home is to make them in such as way as to stay organized.<\/p>\n

While I was at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City this May, I took pictures from several published “family books” from villages in northern Germany. I could have made a folder for each book on my phone as I made the pictures, but I didn’t. I could have named each file as I took the pictures, but I didn’t.<\/p>\n

Frankly both activities, while good from an organizational and methodology standpoint, were going to take too much time. So I took a different approach. These family books are frequently referred to by the initials “OSB,” for ortssippenbucher. For each village book, on a piece of paper, I wrote the name of the village and the initials “OSB.” Then I would lay that piece of paper on each page as I took the pictures. A picture of the title page of the book was also taken. I always made certain not to place the paper on a part of the page I would need and could have used a smaller piece of paper if getting the entire page had been required. I did make certain to get the page number in each photo.<\/p>\n

Then when home, I had all the citation information I needed. I knew where each page was from, had the page number, and had a copy of the title page.<\/p>\n

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I’m giving a webinar on organizing for your research trip <\/a>later in December. You can join me on my research trip to Salt Lake City<\/a> or the Allen County Public Library<\/a> in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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