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I spent this weekend writing photo captions and uploading hundreds more photos, mostly in the Frost and Tuell branches. Adobe Bridge allows me to write metadata, including captions, for multiple photos simultaneously, which is really handy when dealing with several hundred images. MS Pro Photo Tools, a free utility you can find on Microsoft's download site, does the same but not as easily as with the Adobe product.

The Gallery 2 content management application is agonizingly slow, especially with the large number of images I've posted. I like the PicLens compatibility, but I don't know how many people use that browser add-on. I still think a flash gallery might be better — certainly faster — but it would take some time to put one together with all the nested family branches and other photo subgalleries.

On Saturday, I located lots of period music for the genealogy documentary I'm working on. One great site for public domain and open source audio is http://www.archive.org. There is a phenomenal collection of old 78 and cylinder recordings dating from late 1800s through the 1920s. The site also has archived video and books. It's really worth checking out. The Library of Congress is another great source for both audio and images.

I'm also thinking of putting together some sort of family photo DVD for Christmas, using some of the period music I found. That's probably next weekend's project.

Tom