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| Thread ID: 133296 | 2013-05-31 09:48:00 | Question for the genealogists | FoxyMX (5) | PC World Chat |
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| 1344358 | 2013-05-31 09:48:00 | I have been busy scanning and restoring the family photos, some of which are over 100 years old, and once that is done I am wondering what to do with the photos themselves. At the moment they are all loose in boxes but I would like to put them in an album of some kind. The only problem is that there are well over 500 of them of various sizes so I am going to need something like a ring binder or three with the ability to add lots of extra pages. Because the photos are all different size I don't want an album with plastic pages with slots to insert the photos in. A ring binder would also be useful to add pages with the family tree and other information. What do you enthusiasts do for your hard copies? I see that there are photo pages and family tree stationery available online (overseas) but haven't seen anything in the shops, unless I have been looking in the wrong places. I know about scrapbook paper but I am not interested in scrapbooking, I just want it simple and elegant. Would be good to hear what others have done. :) |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 1344359 | 2013-05-31 16:50:00 | It's relatively easy to obtain 35mm neg sleeves for the 35mm films and any smaller formats you may have. 120mm and 4x6 negs can go in acid free sleeves. KEEP THE ORIGIONAL NEGS! As time goes on you may need them as you loose/discover bad scans as well as in the future you may find that better scanning technology will make your current scans worthless in comparison. A flatbed scanner is nowhere near comparable to a proper film scanner, except in price. Making the first digital copies is an essential first step, some day someone else can make super high quality scans. |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1344360 | 2013-05-31 22:04:00 | Hmm. I doubt my thought on the matter will be the answer, but perhaps... laminate each one with about a cm border on one side, and hole-punch that to place inside the binder. | Greg (193) | ||
| 1344361 | 2013-06-01 00:44:00 | It's relatively easy to obtain 35mm neg sleeves for the 35mm films and any smaller formats you may have . 120mm and 4x6 negs can go in acid free sleeves . KEEP THE ORIGIONAL NEGS! We are talking about 120-year-old photos here . I don't have the negatives for them . :p Good tip though as there are a few negs of the more recent 50-year-old photos so I will get sleeves for those . May as well do the same for my own photos as well in case any grandchildren I have may be interested in them one day . My own children are not particularly sentimental about them right now, though in 40 years time they could be . |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 1344362 | 2013-06-01 00:47:00 | Buy a digital photo frame, put them on a flash drive and plug it in | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1344363 | 2013-06-01 00:48:00 | Hmm. I doubt my thought on the matter will be the answer, but perhaps... laminate each one with about a cm border on one side, and hole-punch that to place inside the binder. Sorry Greg but laminating them is one of the worst things you could do to them. It is irreversible and over time the laminate will damage the photograph. You are also not able to get a good scan off a photograph once it has been laminated. Appreciate your interest though. :) For anyone interested I have found a place with lots of good quality storage solutions - Conservation Supplies (www.conservationsupplies.co.nz) so if none of the photo shops here have anything suitable I will order from them. |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 1344364 | 2013-06-01 00:50:00 | Buy a digital photo frame, put them on a flash drive and plug it in That is good for the digital copies but I am wanting good protective storage for the old paper photos of my great-great-grandparents and the rest of the family. :) |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 1344365 | 2013-06-01 10:42:00 | Lucky you FoxyMX, 500 old photos. The few I have are in the proccess of being placed with my family trees on three or four genealogy websites that I pay a subs to. There they are able to be copied back or others' who have the same ancestors' have access to. Whether family history will be about much longer with the new marriage/adoption laws is anyones guess. Lurking. |
Lurking (218) | ||
| 1344366 | 2013-06-01 21:31:00 | Should have thought of that place for you FoxyMX. Went and bought some stuff off them a few weeks ago.They're just around the corner from me!Lots of interesting things in there. | Neil McC (178) | ||
| 1344367 | 2013-06-01 22:14:00 | Lucky you FoxyMX, 500 old photos. Whether family history will be about much longer with the new marriage/adoption laws is anyones guess. Lurking. Don't think humanity will die out or the sky fall in, just make searching and finding people different. |
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