a web search using the terms
digitizing family history will turn up several useful sources including
http://www.2shared.com/document/Ql2q0k4S/Digitizing_Your_Family_History.html

here's help from the Library of Congress about Family Treasures
http://www.loc.gov/preservation/family/

your local public library may offer help from their geneaology folks


Best wishes, Barbara, retired librarian



-----Original Message-----
From: Melanie C King <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Mon, Jul 9, 2012 3:12 pm
Subject: [MUSEUM-L] At home documentation of paper records


Hey everyone,

My father-in-law wants to take his "family archives" (old letters and photographs, some possibly dating back to the Civil War) and create electronic copies of them, but we aren't sure the best way to do this.

I only have experience with prehistoric Southwestern artifacts, so this really isn't my field, but I do know sometimes certain lights and such can have extremely negative effects and so we wanted to make sure we weren't going to damage anything in this process.

I've already told him about possible issues from handling the papers too much with bare hands, but we weren't sure if a standard at-home scanner would cause issues or if certain regular cameras can cause issues either.

Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, we're really hoping we can get this project started so we can share their history with generations to come without worrying about the physical documents being in too much of harm's way.

Thank you again,

Melanie Deer



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