Preserving and Archiving

How do you preserve and archive documents and photos? What are some good ideas and resources for keeping these items safe and making it easier to work with them?

I had planned to look for a hand scanner to archive the dairies I am transcribing, so that I could work from the scans and give the hard copy to a state historical society. When I mentioned the idea on Facebook, some friends had good advice about photographing them, instead. These were a couple of good websites they suggested. I'm working on setting up a usable copy stand.

Photographing and Scanning Old Photos and Documents
http://www.subchaser.org/photographing-documents

Using a Copy Stand - Or Faking It
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wflawrence/dig3_2...

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Hinchliff on September 12, 2010 at 9:06am

Thanks Judith, This is very encouraging and helpful.

Permalink Reply by Judith van Praag on September 12, 2010 at 9:46am

Update on my ScanCafe adventure. It's been a few months since ScanCafe returned my originals with the DVDs of the digital imaging. To be honest, I was scared to death the originals would get lost, the company wouldn't deliver what they promised, but they did and I'm so pleased with their and my accomplishment. They treat your material as though it's your baby, updating you from the get go. From the moment they received the box with my dia-positive slides and some negatives through the whole process I got updates from them. I highly recommend this company. I signed up with them, and then waited, and waited until they offered me the right deal. That in itself took a few months. If you're not wanting to wait, they already offer a good deal.

Yesterday I accomplished another task: saving old CWK and Appleworks documents as Word files. It was an enormous job, that took me about nine months (yes the baby is fine, thank you). Now I can look at my earlier writing on my new iMac and start assembling pieces and sections. Very exciting!

Ready to get on with the show.

Permalink Reply by Nancy Hinchliff on September 12, 2010 at 10:22am

OMG, Judith, you have really taken on a huge job. I hope it's worth it.

Permalink Reply by Judith van Praag on March 23, 2013 at 12:30pm

Hello everyone,

It's been 2.5 years since we were active here. I hope you all are well, and that your projects have been moving along.

I'm still working on the project I was working on last time we communicated here, and a lot has happened.

I trust the same is true for you.

The reason I thought of this group, was a Library of Congress link aboutPreservation of Digital materials, something we were already talking about 2.5 years ago. Check it out, all possible files are listed.

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