Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Additions to the Golden Wedding Guest Book
Myrna wrote: Amy, while you are still working to finish the booklet you made for us for the guest to sign at the open house, could you print these off and put them in the book, please? They are the emails. Or I could.
Amy wrote: SURE THING :)
Myrna wrote: That's just one of the reasons I love you. You are just so thoughtful. Thanks.
Nanci Done wrote: "I Love this!!!!! Happy Anniversary! Awwwww!
Maxine Gordon wrote: "Congratulations! Thanks for the invitation. It is nice to be remembered. I have really enjoyed my associations with you."
Ella Dean Hunter wrote: "I want to congratulate you. You are two of my favorite people. And I want to send my congratulations. I will not be able to come but you both have my very best. Love you and my very best go to you. I so much loved working in the temple with you, and I have missed you."
Kathee Terry Zenger wrote: "Congratulations to two very wonderful people! Your family touched and helped me growing up and I still am influenced by them today. Have the knowledge to know that your marriage has influenced and affected more than just your own children.
Lisa Blackett wrote: "Congratulations to an awesome couple that has touched my life :)"
Emily McCabe Allison wrote: "Wow! "Congratulations Myrna and Leonard!!! That’s what my Juab Teacher looks like now!!!"
Sharon Stanworth Jarrett wrote: "Happy Anniversary"
Tami Talbot Day wrote: "Congrats to one of my favorite couples!"
Sheralyn Jones Brown wrote: "Congratulations, Brother and Sister Trauntvein! What a wonderful couple you are and what a great family you have raised! Thank you for the great example!"
Caren Wilcox wrote: "Congratulations Cousin Myrna! I loved the announcement in the post. All the best for the future with your family."
Charlotte Ann Smith Freeman wrote: "Congrats, sis!!! You are two very good people and I'm happy we've known each other even longer than your 50 years together!"
Cynthia Mikesell wrote: "CONGRATULATIONS!!!"
Janeen Howick B wrote: "Congratulations Myrna and Leonard!!!! WOW!!!!"
Pat Fullmer Howard wrote: "How wonderfu lMyrna & Leonard, Happy Anniversary....."
DeAnn Sperry Baxter wrote: "This is soooo awesome!!! Love you both!!!"
J Ross Christensen wrote: "Congratulations! Here's to another 50. And THEN on to eternity."
Patsy Ragle wrote: "Happy Anniversary to you both!! I hope that you have an eternity of love and happieness!! I think the world of both of you!! all my love!
Patsy"
Suzie Talbot Applegate wrote: "Wow! 50 years ~ what a great accomplishment! Wishing you many, many more!!!"
Deborah Knight Wilson wrote: "Congratulations! Doesn't time go fast???"
Susie Fairbanks wrote: “Myrna, you're so cute! I figured it was something like that. Love your picture on your 50th anniversary announcement! You make such a cute couple! It's neat to see how you both looked on your wedding day! 50 years is such an incredible milestone! My parents will be married 50 years next May 29 so you were married a few months before they were. I'm hoping we can make it down to Nephi for your golden anniversary celebration. That would be so much fun! Rich is nervous about driving back to Orangeville that night. He doesn't like night driving, especially with it being deer season. We'll have to see how things work out. Would love to see you!! Thank you so much for the invite! I consider you a close friend, too! :)”
Becky Leavitt Christensen wrote: "Jared wonders if he could bring a few swords and have a sword fight. :) that is awesome, you guys are great and we miss you."
Kyle Ashworth wrote: "Congrats you two."
About Photo Sharing: I Just Don't Know
Photo sharing is becoming extremely popular on the Internet, especially with the increased participation in social networking websites. While there are specific photo swapping sites available for those who want to share their photographs, what if you want to pick and choose who is allowed to view them? Most websites have little or no way of setting limitations on the photographs you share, as far as who can view, share or distribute them. When there are privacy settings available, they are often difficult to set up or there are loops around them that allow strangers to view your precious memories.
Thankfully there are ways of protecting these memories, and the best way is throughsecure photo sharing by digitally locking up the photos you share. You can choose the privacy level you desire and exactly who can and cannot view your photographs. Why would you need such a service?
Below are three important reasons you might want to consider locking up your photographs. Which is important to you?
1. Copyright Infringement
Whether you take photographs of your family for fun, or are an avid nature photographer who likes to sell your photos online, it’s important to protect the rights of your photos. If you allow the public to view your photographs, it’s very hard to protect them from being downloaded and used in various ways. Others may even take your beautiful pictures and sell them as your own. Keep the copyrights to your work safe by securing them. Websites such as Keep and Share make it possible to not only digitally lock up your photos, but still share them with other parties or family members as needed.
2. Privacy Issues
If you are an avid user of social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace, you know how important online privacy is. Though sites such as those allow privacy options for your photos, often the settings are difficult to figure out by the average person. This allows your private photographs to be visible to anyone who can find your profile. Considering that most of us take pictures of what is most priceless to us, it is understandable that you would want to protect the privacy of those photographs. Securing pictures digitally keeps strangers from glancing into your life, and can even protect your possessions from theft.
3. Safety and Protection
One of the biggest reasons to secure your photographs digitally is to protect the health and safety of your family, especially children. If you want to share pictures of your family as they grow and change, you can do so without sacrificing their innocence as they are exposed to strangers’ wandering eyes. Though we would all like to think nothing bad will ever happen to our children, the sad fact is that children are at the greatest risk for abuse. Secure photo sharing allows you to pick and choose exactly who can see your children, which gives you as the parent the greatest control over their safety.
Questions from Myrna
Do you want to receive photos?
Do you want to receive photos via email?
Do you want me to post to a site?
The problem, as I see it, is that we have to password protect a photo site and no one ever uses such sites because they don't remember the password.
Kirsten's idea:
Kirsten sent an example of one place you can do it that is very secure. Only those we send a link to can access the photos and we have to enter their email addresses and we can also select to let only those we share the link with (the siblings and me) to contribute photos. It is called picasaweb.
I did download some of the photos on the site Kirsten recommended. Go and see what you think.
Kirsten wrote: I still think we can upload a majority of photos using a secure site. We could leave those with ams and Julie's kids off. Most of the photos I think the majority of us want are the younger years of our family and genealogy type photos. What does everyone else think?
Melanie wrote: For the same reason that others can only receive a few photo emails. There is a quota and a size for each file, to protect the user from receiving junk mail or viruses. The one system that we use with Braden is photobucket. You can invite only family if you want and anyone can upload photos or download photos, as long as they have access to the site. Melanie
Myrna wrote: Thanks. Who is going to decide what we do? Kirsten also had an idea. Why don't you work it out together and let me know.
AnnMarie: I know that you are trying to stay out of the latest family "discussion" though I have tossed your name about. However, I would like to know your thoughts on the photos and putting them on a site vs emailing them. I suppose you want this kept private between us. But I value your knowledge and would like to know what you think about the safety of sites. I suppose that the only safe way is to save them to CDs but Dad thinks that takes too much time and he may be right. It is not a question of expense. But there are a lot of photos and it takes hours to scan them--about 15 minutes per scan. Then, on top of that, it take five minutes to burn a CD. I have to stay with it because, one out of 10 or so, will not burn properly. Is there a safe way to post them to a site which takes about 5 minutes per photo (as opposed to the 5 minutes per CD burn times 10)? Is there a safe site? Kirsten and Todd think all the sites can be protected. Eric likes either CDs or email. David likes a site or CDs. Julie does not like sites. Kimberly has also stayed silent. Melanie thinks that a site would be a solution though she has lots of capacity on her computer. What do YOU think? You work with sickos and have training in ways to protect yourself and, therefore, I value your opinion.
Talk over all your ideas with AnnMarie and Julie. They both have concerns with sites. I didn't used to but, last week, I typed my name into google because I was looking for an article I had written a number of years ago. I found it, no surprise. I also found, on public access, three e-mails I had sent to others from my sisna account way back then. They were word for word--my reply to one and the email they had sent me--and I started to think that once something is on the web it is on the web. I don't know if I am just worried of ghosts and goblins but it did make me think.
Of course, that being said, I have sent the photos via email.
AnnMarie wrote: I like the pictures. I don't care how they are delivered. If you do it on a site, don't include names of my kids.
Shawn wrote: I have appreciated receiving the CD’s in the past, but that is more costly for you. Online takes time to download, especially if you can’t do a whole folder at a time, and I don’t spend an a lot of time on computers once I leave work. Also, it seemed some of the sites charged you annually. Email might overwhelm size limits sometimes. I wonder if a server or a computer with remote access turned on would be a good way to do it, of course we would want a password again.
Melanie wrote: There were so many emails to read, I thought I would start at the bottom (the newest comes first) and read to the top. I responded before I had read all 52 emails. I like the photobucket idea and I also like Kirsten's idea.
With a family as large as ours, there will be different needs for different folks. Many of us go to Utah yearly. You said that the cds were costing time and money and not everyone wanted them. Therefore, send out a mass email and tell people what photos you are copying and ask them how they want them stored/sent.When they want a cd, have them supply the cds and then give them the option of paying for postage or picking up the cd when they see you. Or let them know that you have them stored on your hard drive and are willing to send out the photos that day.
I like Kirsten, have downloaded most of the photos to my "Trauntvein Family Photo History" storage folder, but not everyone has the capacity to store that amount of files, especially if they have children who use the computer and store their files.
There is a solution. It can be worked out. We just need to not overthink it. Some sites are very protected, but all forts have holes and eventually someone can get through and find pictures. They can even take them off of school websites and out of yearbooks, which can be scanned. Not even emails are safe anymore. I know mine has been hacked before (as was my credit card and checking account).
I know the family is not saying they don't appreciate your work, they just have a limit to the size of files and the capacity on their computers for the files sent. Mel
Myrna wrote: Meanwhile, back at the ranch. It is not the cost. A few CDs will not put me in the poorhouse today or tomorrow. I don't need money. I need time.
Make a decision, after talking to Ams and Juls, then let me know.
Kirsten wrote: I'd say go with whichever one offers most free storage. Either way, we'll have to do what Todd suggested and leave them up for a certain amount of time, then give everyone notice before we have to delete and upload the next set. We're talking hundreds of pics though.
Do you want to receive photos via email?
Do you want me to post to a site?
The problem, as I see it, is that we have to password protect a photo site and no one ever uses such sites because they don't remember the password.
Kirsten's idea:
Kirsten sent an example of one place you can do it that is very secure. Only those we send a link to can access the photos and we have to enter their email addresses and we can also select to let only those we share the link with (the siblings and me) to contribute photos. It is called picasaweb.
I did download some of the photos on the site Kirsten recommended. Go and see what you think.
Kirsten wrote: I still think we can upload a majority of photos using a secure site. We could leave those with ams and Julie's kids off. Most of the photos I think the majority of us want are the younger years of our family and genealogy type photos. What does everyone else think?
Melanie wrote: For the same reason that others can only receive a few photo emails. There is a quota and a size for each file, to protect the user from receiving junk mail or viruses. The one system that we use with Braden is photobucket. You can invite only family if you want and anyone can upload photos or download photos, as long as they have access to the site. Melanie
Myrna wrote: Thanks. Who is going to decide what we do? Kirsten also had an idea. Why don't you work it out together and let me know.
AnnMarie: I know that you are trying to stay out of the latest family "discussion" though I have tossed your name about. However, I would like to know your thoughts on the photos and putting them on a site vs emailing them. I suppose you want this kept private between us. But I value your knowledge and would like to know what you think about the safety of sites. I suppose that the only safe way is to save them to CDs but Dad thinks that takes too much time and he may be right. It is not a question of expense. But there are a lot of photos and it takes hours to scan them--about 15 minutes per scan. Then, on top of that, it take five minutes to burn a CD. I have to stay with it because, one out of 10 or so, will not burn properly. Is there a safe way to post them to a site which takes about 5 minutes per photo (as opposed to the 5 minutes per CD burn times 10)? Is there a safe site? Kirsten and Todd think all the sites can be protected. Eric likes either CDs or email. David likes a site or CDs. Julie does not like sites. Kimberly has also stayed silent. Melanie thinks that a site would be a solution though she has lots of capacity on her computer. What do YOU think? You work with sickos and have training in ways to protect yourself and, therefore, I value your opinion.
Talk over all your ideas with AnnMarie and Julie. They both have concerns with sites. I didn't used to but, last week, I typed my name into google because I was looking for an article I had written a number of years ago. I found it, no surprise. I also found, on public access, three e-mails I had sent to others from my sisna account way back then. They were word for word--my reply to one and the email they had sent me--and I started to think that once something is on the web it is on the web. I don't know if I am just worried of ghosts and goblins but it did make me think.
Of course, that being said, I have sent the photos via email.
AnnMarie wrote: I like the pictures. I don't care how they are delivered. If you do it on a site, don't include names of my kids.
Shawn wrote: I have appreciated receiving the CD’s in the past, but that is more costly for you. Online takes time to download, especially if you can’t do a whole folder at a time, and I don’t spend an a lot of time on computers once I leave work. Also, it seemed some of the sites charged you annually. Email might overwhelm size limits sometimes. I wonder if a server or a computer with remote access turned on would be a good way to do it, of course we would want a password again.
Melanie wrote: There were so many emails to read, I thought I would start at the bottom (the newest comes first) and read to the top. I responded before I had read all 52 emails. I like the photobucket idea and I also like Kirsten's idea.
With a family as large as ours, there will be different needs for different folks. Many of us go to Utah yearly. You said that the cds were costing time and money and not everyone wanted them. Therefore, send out a mass email and tell people what photos you are copying and ask them how they want them stored/sent.When they want a cd, have them supply the cds and then give them the option of paying for postage or picking up the cd when they see you. Or let them know that you have them stored on your hard drive and are willing to send out the photos that day.
I like Kirsten, have downloaded most of the photos to my "Trauntvein Family Photo History" storage folder, but not everyone has the capacity to store that amount of files, especially if they have children who use the computer and store their files.
There is a solution. It can be worked out. We just need to not overthink it. Some sites are very protected, but all forts have holes and eventually someone can get through and find pictures. They can even take them off of school websites and out of yearbooks, which can be scanned. Not even emails are safe anymore. I know mine has been hacked before (as was my credit card and checking account).
I know the family is not saying they don't appreciate your work, they just have a limit to the size of files and the capacity on their computers for the files sent. Mel
Myrna wrote: Meanwhile, back at the ranch. It is not the cost. A few CDs will not put me in the poorhouse today or tomorrow. I don't need money. I need time.
Make a decision, after talking to Ams and Juls, then let me know.
Kirsten wrote: I'd say go with whichever one offers most free storage. Either way, we'll have to do what Todd suggested and leave them up for a certain amount of time, then give everyone notice before we have to delete and upload the next set. We're talking hundreds of pics though.
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