If you have Hispanic or Southwestern U.S. ancestry, you probably will be interested in an article by Nicolás Cabrera that has been published in the Denver Public Library’s web site. Cabrera writes: “Many documents researchers encounter in Hispanic and southwest genealogy research are handwritten in Spanish with archaic terms, abbreviations, and old spelling rules, especially …
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Which is Better for Long-Term Storage of Records: Paper, Microfilm or Digital?
Subtitle: Unlike Paper and Microfilm, Digital Documents Can Last Forever “Conventional wisdom” amongst genealogists, historians, and archivists states that digital media is a poor method of storing data for decades or for centuries. This “conventional wisdom” claims that the only practical method of storing information for many years is to do so on paper or …
Which is Better for Long-Term Storage of Records: Paper, Microfilm or Digital?
Subtitle: Unlike Paper and Microfilm, Digital Documents Can Last Forever “Conventional wisdom” amongst genealogists, historians, and archivists states that digital media is a poor method of storing data for decades or for centuries. This “conventional wisdom” claims that the only practical method of storing information for many years is to do so on paper or …