Scanning old photos...

[jomar]

It's time consuming, but I'm smiling a lot...

I'll share a few with family and friends through email or Skype...put a few on my Facebook page...ya'll do have Facebook, right?

 

[Guest]

It's time consuming, but I'm smiling a lot...

I'll share a few with family and friends through email or Skype...put a few on my Facebook page...ya'll do have Facebook, right?

Yep.

We did that for my parent's 50th wedding anniversary last year.

Scanned many of their old pictures, printed them off and made a scrapbook that was partly humorous and partly loving.

Made us smile, too.

 

[jomar]

That's very cool...

I'm going to make an album of pics across the years - on a yearly family vacation we take pictures in front of the same thing every year. Parents, sister, spouses, kids...we probably go back 20+ years. It'll be a treasure.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I did my genealogy beginning in 1994. I started with almost nothing, and knew less. My old man died in 1969, my mom died in 1971, and I never knew or met 3 of my grandparents. The one grandparent I did know wouldnt tell me anything, like it was a big fucking secret.

But I collected 100s of old photographs, memoirs, diaries, books, and copies of oil portraits, plus artifacts etc. People were very generous to me.

Recently, a man sent me a diary his ancestor kept in 1860. His ancestor was seriously smitten with a 16 year old girl who became my 2nd-Great Grandmother. The guy obsessed about her and filled the diary with all kinds of stuff about her. But she broke his heart.

 

[jomar]

I did my genealogy beginning in 1994...

I haven't gotten into that yet, but have access when I want to a lot of material my grandmother and mother collected...apparently we go back to Rob Roy on one side and your more run of the mill horse thieves on the other.

I do enjoy the old family photos...you know, the ones with pictures secured in albums with those old school glued down tabs where the picture corner slides into a slot.

 

[_Lynn_]

It's time consuming, but I'm smiling a lot...

I'll share a few with family and friends through email or Skype...put a few on my Facebook page...ya'll do have Facebook, right?

I just yesterday finished sorting the family pictures/albums I had here. Now there are stacks for my kids, the ex and my siblings. Myself, I'm not into photos. I'm keeping very few, and I'm sure they will end up with the others real soon -- passed on to someone else to deal with.

 

[jomar]

I just yesterday finished sorting the family pictures/albums I had here. Now there are stacks for my kids, the ex and my siblings. Myself, I'm not into photos. I'm keeping very few, and I'm sure they will end up with the others real soon -- passed on to someone else to deal with.

I haven't looked at mine in...well, forever. But I set the screen saver to slide show random pics I've scanned and I find myself really enjoying it - quick blasts of happy.

 

[bb_peaks]

We just did this to do a memorial slide show for my uncle's funeral service. I put together an 8 minute DVD to run during the service and a 1 1/2 hour one that ran while everyone ate beforehand. Definitely good to look back down memory lane.

 

[cloudy]

I haven't gotten into that yet, but have access when I want to a lot of material my grandmother and mother collected...apparently we go back to Rob Roy on one side and your more run of the mill horse thieves on the other.

There's one HUGE advantage to having a sister that belongs to the Mormon Church: access to their amazingly extensive genealogical database.

We haven't been able to go back any further than the Trail of Tears on one side of my mother's family (for obvious reasons), but my sister has documented my father's family back to the turn of the first millennium - one ancestor was the King of Scotland that MacBeth killed.

 

[SeaCat]

LOLOL

I started doing this a few years back when I decided it was time to weed out the old pictures around the place.

I started with my wedding. Every picture was scanned then electronicaly labeled. That took a while and filled a disk.

My parents heard about this and liked the idea. I started receiving boxes of pictures along with descriptions of each picture. BY the time I had finished scanning in a box they had sent another. We're talking pictures going back to when they were dating. We're talking pictures and slides. Then they started sending me their archive pictures, things like pictures of their parents and other family members. All except the toldest pictures were destroyed when I was done.

My In-Laws heard about this and decided that it was a great idea and I started getting their boxes of pictures. Hah, no rest for the weary. My poor scanner was getting a work out from this.

BY the time all pictures had been scanned in and saved with the appropriate titles and history I had a ton of filled disks and a history of both families. (I saved the pictures at the highest resolutions my scanner would allow.)

It's amazing how many pictures one can gather even in a short time.

Cat

 

[glynndah]

I did this with my mother's family pictures. I scanned them into the computer, cleaned them up as best I could and then printed them out with captions for each picture, complete with those little black triangles in each corner.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

JOMAR

My old man occasionally bragged about his family...the mansion, the servants, the Cadillacs, etc. But when my mother met him he was a newly minted Marine Corps Private. She said the Johnsons were sharecroppers and horse-thieves, and they were when she met him.

He wasnt lying. In the 20s the Johnsons were kings of the hill, and by 1940 the plantations were sold-off, their banks were closed, the money was gone, and my grandmother and her 9 kids picked cotton in Arkansas.

 

[jomar]

LOLOL

I started doing this a few years back when I decided it was time to weed out the old pictures around the place.

I started with my wedding. Every picture was scanned then electronicaly labeled. That took a while and filled a disk.

My parents heard about this and liked the idea. ...

My In-Laws heard about this and decided that it was a great idea...

It's amazing how many pictures one can gather even in a short time.

Cat

They were just doing it to keep you out of trouble.

Hmm...I went with the programs suggested settings...think I'll look into it...thanks.

JOMAR

My old man occasionally bragged about his family...the mansion, the servants, the Cadillacs, etc. But when my mother met him he was a newly minted Marine Corps Private. She said the Johnsons were sharecroppers and horse-thieves, and they were when she met him.

He wasnt lying. In the 20s the Johnsons were kings of the hill, and by 1940 the plantations were sold-off, their banks were closed, the money was gone, and my grandmother and her 9 kids picked cotton in Arkansas.

Ha! Yeah, I'm not living in the lap of luxury either...