tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4361643719072455990.post7337465279424807239..comments2024-02-06T01:09:04.011-06:00Comments on Long Lost Relatives.net: Sentimental Sunday - Those Kodak MomentsSusan Petersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02788283253544225956noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4361643719072455990.post-64800706619071156662010-12-06T14:02:08.637-06:002010-12-06T14:02:08.637-06:00In order to avoid big decisions about each and eve...In order to avoid big decisions about each and every photo, which would significantly slow down the process, I made one decision - well, technically my daughter made it. We were going to scan each and every picture. Period. This decision did get overridden when there was a picture that we couldn't identify what it was - and did throw the photo away. Eventually after a couple of boxes, we had an emergency - needed family pictures for a slide show, so I changed the rule to all pictures of people get scanned. I don't rewrite history - the people in the past were there for a purpose - even if it was to teach us a lesson. I also tagged all the photos for easy retrieval. That part is done, but now going back and scanning pictures of places and things is much harder.Shelina (formerly known as Shasta)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03290945204269323129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4361643719072455990.post-30205719581076926702010-11-19T12:07:56.904-06:002010-11-19T12:07:56.904-06:00I have been scanning family snapshots and loading ...I have been scanning family snapshots and loading them on digital picture frames. I did one for my mother-in-law for her 90th birthday, one for each of my children of their childhood pictures and one for us of our son's recent wedding. They've been a great hit and allowed me to keep the silly shots I might have discarded. I've archived copies of each slideshow and boxed up the originals. The next task is an ancestral slide show.Susan Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02009218875010743399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4361643719072455990.post-87461843692183823672010-11-14T16:41:46.942-06:002010-11-14T16:41:46.942-06:00That's wonderful, Heather! You are fortunate t...That's wonderful, Heather! You are fortunate to have someone who can help you ID the photos. In the older albums that have been passed along to me, I have no idea who many of them are and no way of finding out - so far.Susan Petersenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02788283253544225956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4361643719072455990.post-59824177443726063692010-11-14T16:39:31.120-06:002010-11-14T16:39:31.120-06:00I can sympathize with you! I'm going through ...I can sympathize with you! I'm going through a photo album owned by my husband's great aunt. Hubby's family is all in Spain. The photos start in the 1920s and end in the 1980s. I carefully remove the photos that look like family, scan and email them to my mother-in-law and older cousins in Spain. They help me identify the people, the time period, the places, I enter it all into the computer and label the faces on a duplicate copy, then I email back my thanks to Spain- rinse and repeat. This has been going on for weeks. We're all having fun, and we've never had so much family communication! I don't know what I'll do with all the photos when I'm finished, but at least I'm identifying lots of forgotten cousins and relatives for the family tree.Heather Wilkinson Rojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17704949156266722016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4361643719072455990.post-56796964694424482792010-11-14T14:26:07.317-06:002010-11-14T14:26:07.317-06:00Many times we took 25 photos of the same event, th...Many times we took 25 photos of the same event, the same day. I pick the one I feel most represents the day and scan it, many of the rest are in a storage box, OR, I give them to the others represented in the photo. <br /><br />I rarely scan scenery for my family history, even tho I LOVE scenery, flowers, trees, critters, etc. <br /><br />I do scan all my pets. I scan our cars and trucks and trailers, I even scanned my hubby sitting on his big monster mowing machine.<br /><br />I only scan something that is out of focus on the rarest of ocassions, it has to be very special.Carolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11754623831815018924noreply@blogger.com