GeneaBabble

I read about this on the Genealogue and thought I’d pass it along.  Fiona Wilson is conducting a survey concerning the importance of old family photos in family history research as part of the research for her dissertation.  I’m sure many of you genealogists (i.e., BOTH of my readers) have photos of an appropriate age, so take a few minutes to complete the survey.

I just read this post over at Genea-Musings and since I’ve been on the topic of preserving family history (both oral and written) I thought I’d bring up the subject of scanning old photos. While going through my father’s stuff I’ve found lots of old photographs a few of which are in pretty bad shape. I have a flatbed scanner and I really need to get to work on getting them scanned. But then it hit me… I also have thousands of other photos sitting around! These are mostly from the 60s through the 90s. HOW do I scan them all? Is there an affordable service that will digitize them for me? Or perhaps a special scanner I can buy? Time to start doing some research…