Family Photos
>> Sunday, June 29, 2008
Yeah, yeah, I should be working on my presentation instead of blogging, so stop nagging me. I've got a month to go.
I finally found the family photo albums, and something needs to be done about them. They are all on those awful self-stick and cellophane pages which are rapidly decaying. But this is not a one-person project. I'm going to need some help here. Any recommendations on how to proceed? I am not dedicated enough to start a fancy-smancy scrapbook, complete with cutesy stickers and journaling...after all, I was either the subject of these pictures, some forty years ago, or wasn't even born yet.
And the sad thing is, there is no one after me and my sisters who would even want these pictures.
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I faced the same thing a couple of years ago - lots and lots of photos in many different scrapbooks and loose photos in stacks, boxes, and envelopes. I started with the earliest ones and devoted a couple of weekends to scanning them in. I've copied all those to a CD and put it in my safe deposit box. I was nowhere near finished when we received a box of photos from a great-aunt who had died at 100+. My mom, sister, and I went through them, and Mom was able to identify maybe half the people. I started scanning those in but didn't make much headway yet, and there are all the photos from since I became an adult that also need to be scanned in.
So, FWIW, my suggestion would be to sort them by date as much as you can and then, either before you scan them or while you're scanning them, write on the back of every one the names, date, place, event, etc., for the benefit of people way in the future who may be looking at them.
And have fun!
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