{"id":17463,"date":"2023-12-31T11:09:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T17:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=17463"},"modified":"2023-12-31T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T20:52:00","slug":"17463","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/31\/17463\/","title":{"rendered":"Preserving Diary-Calendar Material?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/plum-tree-connie-ufkes-neill-2003-1024x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/plum-tree-connie-ufkes-neill-2003-1024x375.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/plum-tree-connie-ufkes-neill-2003-300x110.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/plum-tree-connie-ufkes-neill-2003-768x281.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/plum-tree-connie-ufkes-neill-2003.jpg 1228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Entry made 10 May, but referenced items on the previous Saturday&#8211;8 May.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have approximately fifteen years of calendars on which my Mother has written down various things that happened on most days. For 2003, I have a blank journal in which she made entries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve realized I will probably never scan these items. Instead, I&#8217;m taking pictures of them, saving the images, and creating a guidebook. That guidebook will give the probable full name of various people to whom she is referring, what I think some of the abbreviations mean, where various pieces of farm ground are that she references, and other things that I think might help someone later understand the references (<em>eg<\/em>. &#8220;PlumTree&#8221; in the illustration refers to a local restaurant). I don&#8217;t foresee having the time to completely transcribe them and pictures that get organized and saved are better than starting a project that does not get finished. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In some cases, I have pictures taken at the events she mentions and I will use the diary reference to augment the digital images I have made of the photographs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I may be chastised for not scanning. Preserving with photographs is better than no images at all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have approximately fifteen years of calendars on which my Mother has written down various things that happened on most days. For 2003, I have a blank journal in which she made entries. I&#8217;ve realized I will probably never scan these items. Instead, I&#8217;m taking pictures of them, saving the images, and creating a guidebook. [&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-17463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17463","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=17463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}