{"id":15969,"date":"2022-11-18T07:24:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15969"},"modified":"2022-11-18T07:24:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:24:14","slug":"before-it-fades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/18\/before-it-fades\/","title":{"rendered":"Before It Fades"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been at genealogy for several decades, what non-digital reproductions of records are sitting in your files that need to be preserved in another way?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I started my research back in the 1980s, copies from microfilm were often not considered permanent and researchers were told to use them as a temporary means of capturing the text and that the item should be transcribed before the image faded from the paper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not all images fade. The image used to illustrate this post was made in the early 1980s and is still legible enough to read, but it was stored in a safe environment in terms of humidity, temperature, and minimal exposure to light. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"611\" height=\"629\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-2.png 611w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-2-291x300.png 291w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 611px) 100vw, 611px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you have that needs to be converted to another format?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been at genealogy for several decades, what non-digital reproductions of records are sitting in your files that need to be preserved in another way? When I started my research back in the 1980s, copies from microfilm were often not considered permanent and researchers were told to use them as a temporary means of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}