[Bgnet] Bowerman/Gifford Family Photographs

Tue Mar 14 13:00:09 EST 2006

I think they are ALL Bowermans--lots of different branches!  And the pages are like font size 8, full page of small type.  A huge task to type it all into a database/spreadsheet.  I've offered to work on it, your help would be great!  Ron is busy working on a zillion other things.  He's going to try a couple things to see if they'd work and let us know.
Exciting to think of 52 different albums of Bowerman family photos, isn't it??
xoxo  Patti

Ron,
How about taking the 150 pages of indexed material and pull out just the Bowerman names and making a sub-index?  How many pages would that end up being?  If you send me the 150 pages I could probably do that.  Then put that sub-index on the web site so anyone could see it.  Then if anyone wants the pictures send them a CD with the sub-index and pictures for a price.  Or send 75 sheets to Patti and 75 to me - LOL - that way it would get done in half the time if not sooner.  Or 50 to Patti, 50 to me and 50 for you.
Lon

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  From: Bowerman Genealogy Discussion 
  To: Bgnet at hawkshome.net 
  Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 10:40 PM
  Subject: Re: [Bgnet] Bowerman/Gifford Family Photographs

  Lol - Patti can type, Lon can sort and collate, Ron can convert to html and spend a month adding a few hundred links - roflmao!!!

  While it sounds good in theory, it's a massive undertaking, Lon.  Close to 2000 entries to type up, convert to html, and link into the website.  I just do not have the time for that now, as I am sure it would not be done before I leave here in May.

  I also have to consider the amount of drive space it would consume - we are close to our limits now, unless I upgrade the server again.  I had thought to add the photo's to the site, as they are all sorted by album, but that is 650 meg - more space than I have - by almost double.  Mind you, there are 52 albums of photos.

  What I am considering are a couple alternatives:

    1.. Posting the index for album 1 for a period of time, then pulling it down and posting album 2., etc.. 
    2.. Creating a bound photocopy of the indexes, adding a copy of the entire CD, and letting people order them from me for cost + shipping. 

  I personally think option 2 to be the most realistic.

  I have the same problem with the West Falmouth Archive listing - too much data (over 100 pages) to put up on the website.  The file would take forever to download and take up a lot of space.

  Add these facts to a 35gig/month bandwidth limitation - means it isn't going to happen.  This is the same problem I have with adding all the Picton references.

  I'll make a final decision on all this after I decide if I want to lay out the cost of another website upgrade.  This site was originally based on a 200 meg partition, and we are already cramping 600 megs. The next addition/upgrade puts me into commercial website territory and that starts getting expensive.

  I'll keep you posted though.

  Ron

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  From: Bowerman Genealogy Discussion [mailto:Bgnet at hawkshome.net] 
  Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 9:25 PM
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  Subject: Re: [Bgnet] Bowerman/Gifford Family Photographs

  Ron - at least you need to get the index up on the web site so we can search it.  Otherwise we will never know if there is a picture we may want to look at.

  Lon

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