"Dee Randall" <deedoveyatshenteldotnet> wrote in message
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> Janet, my husband received 3 hand-written recipe books of his
> grandmother's (b. 1885). The recipes have different names, like "Mrs.
> Cherry's New England Chowder," etc. He is scanning/has scanned these and
> saving in two formats. One format: in a .pdf file and one source on a
> DVD. At Christmas time we sent CD's to cousins. The CDs contained photos,
> marriage certificates, important papers in their lives, and recipes. The
> cousins loved them. This is a good way to preserve recipes, sending a CD
> of the recipes to various members of the family.
> Dee
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Good idea, Dee. I'd considered scanning but hadn't thought far enough ahead
to sharing.
Thanks
Janet