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Trabuco · RV-Dreams Family Member

Family Pictures

FD5 · RV-Dreams Family Member

When through them and divided them out by who were in the pics then asked them if they wanted them. Scanned a few for our digital picture frame and downloaded a few.

Racerguy · RV-Dreams Family Member

We told the family we had no room for them and if they wanted them come and get them or they would have to be destroyed.I wouldn't really do that but they didn't know that wink

.Digitized the ones we wanted and family took the rest.

Postalpair · RV-Dreams Family Member

I felt like I had 9 million pictures !! LOL!! I found a really nice company in Georgia that put all of my pictures on disc. Only took 2 days. We stayed in a beautiful state park. I finished up with 32 disc's. We organized them the way we wanted, added captions and could have added music. We chose not to do that. I even made copies for my daughter.
If you want more info. on who we used, send me a message and I will get back to you.

janieD · RV-Dreams Family Member

I used a service called scanmyphotos.com to scan all the thousands of photos we had. Then I divided up the original and sent any that were of other family members to them and let them deal with them however they pleased. Even then it takes a great deal of time but now my photos are digitized it makes it a lot easier.

janni · RV-Dreams Family Member

We had half a dozen of those big storage containers full. Our old scanner was a flatbed so I loaded as many as I could, scanned to file, opened each file in photoshop, cropped and saved as 1-A, 1-B, etc, saved on my external book, copied, pasted and burned dvd copies for all family. I gave my niece(scrapbooker) all the totes full and have several burned copies around and with us in our fireproof safe. Put mine on a stick and plug into photo frame that shows them as a slideshow. Took a long time but is well worth it. I even scanned the saved newspaper clippings, obits, and death certificates that were left in my care. To think it all fits on a dvd and usb stick. Downsizing is a good thing.

Postalpair · RV-Dreams Family Member

Awesome job Janni. I wish I had the time to do it, but I was very pleased with the service we used. I am just glad to have it all on disc. My kids have the pictures now and have made several collage picture's to hang in their homes. We always love to visit and see all the old pictures hanging in their homes. Even the grandkids ask about their "great, greatgrandmother " etc.
It is soooo worth the work to pass along these photo's

K & E · RV-Dreams Family Member

I started scanning my pictures about 3 years before we actually went full time. I saved them to my harddrive in folders labeled either by the vacation location or by the year.

I also transferred all of my VHS family videos onto the computer using a program from Pinnacle which I bought on Amazon.

I put all of this onto an external harddrive for each child and one for myself. The video takes up a lot of space so I didn't want to store it on my computer and bog things down. Even though I have boys, I was surprised how happy they were to have these memories. I also put my favorite pictures on a stick to use in my digital picture frame.

Then I threw away all the pictures and tapes. People thought I was crazy, but I have three backup copies, so I felt safe doing that.

Speedhitch · RV-Dreams Family Member

Most all our family pictures were slides. Not many people even know what a slide is. I scanned my slides and put them on disk and memory sticks. This cleaned up a lot of totes and now we can run them non-stop on our picture frame.