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Default Recipie Indexing Help!!

Carl Navarro wrote:
> Here's the deal. My mom passed away last month and I got all of her
> recipie books. I don't have a clue what to do, so maybe someone here
> can advise me.
>
> I can scan each page, about a 3-5 minute job, but I don't know if I
> should or how to index them. I have posted 3 sample scans on my
> website. One is Yorkshire pudding, one is a couple of Frozen fruit
> salad recipies, along with dips and stuff like that, and one is from
> her cookie recipies page, with Orange Frosted Pumpkin cookies as the
> main reason I scanned it :-)
>
> Anyway, please grab them if you can and tell me what you think. As
> far as I can tell, they were collected from 1945 to the early '50's.
> Some of them show the (Chicago) Herald-American test kitchen on the
> bottom. She kept them in old brown College notebooks and, yes, some
> of them are pasted 16 recipies per page into these books.
>
> I'd like to scan them and save them to pdf files for my family. Or
> don't they do that anymore with the internet?
>
> Here's the link :http://public.carl.airpost.net/food
>
>
> Carl Navarro


Carl,
My condolences for the passing of your mom.

Why not scan and organize in the same order that she had them in? Or are
you trying to come up with a filing system that makes sense to you?