Note- all of above information may not have been filled in for every interment.

Proposal for file names of the digitized images

- first the letter f = film then the film number 7 digits, e.g. 1401399,
- then the letter s = section followed by 3 digits, eg 100 to identify parts of the information on the film
- then the letter i = image then a 5 digit number that is sequential by 10 e.g. 00010, 00020, 00030 ... 00100, 00110

f1401399s100i00010
the section part of this file name is just an idea that I had that we may need a mechanism to break a film into sections - for example the film 1,401,399 begins with a handwritten index and then it has the daily register pages. I skipped the index because there is another index on a different film - so I jumped ahead and started with the daily register pages - so I decided to call the s100

the image number 5 digits with the last digit being 0 for most files - this allows up to 9999 files in a section - If a film goes past this number we would call the next image section s200i00010 - I guess.

the image part of the file name is because my experience is that sometimes the person doing the scanning - me - gets distracted and maybe I miss a page - this way I can go back another day and see if any pages were missed and then scan the missing page and number the file it to fit in sequence within the previous number, eg 00115.

The below info gives you a rough idea of the process used for this project:

Sheila went to her local Family History Center to put in an order for the microfilm. If not readily available at that particular library, it will be a few weeks before it is delivered for use.

Then she uses the scanner at the FHC to make digitized copies of each individual page of the microfilm. For instance, microfilm # 1,401,399 is the daily register from 1872 to 1915 of interments at Holy cross.

It took her about 20 minutes to get familiar with the scanning software - because the software was fairly clumsy. Once she got past that she was able to scan about 150 images in an hour. The setup only let her save files as PDF - it did let me save the files as JPG. Also it makes up the file names as consecutive numbers - it started with number 0072. So this means she will need to rename the files to keep the numbers from 1 days work separate from the numbers on another days work.

Each PDF file created is about 650KB in size. So far Sheila has about 150 files done. Two of which are viewable on this web site. We are currently exploring ways to transfer and display these digitized pages. Getting them into JPG format would greatly reduce the file sizes.

To find a Family History Center near you click here

Anyone wanting to volunteer to help with this project should contact Sheila S at [email protected]. You don't have to be a BIGS member to participate.

Digitized files currently available for viewing: