I tried to begin my Mother's family old photo project. I was all set upstairs. I wanted to keep the mess upstairs! After several afternoons working with Far Guys Laptop I decided to move downstairs. My Windows 10 brain and Mac brain were fighting!! Talk about frustration! I bought a new Canon printer/scanner for the project. I had to hard wire it to the laptop. When I brought it downstairs it would not work wireless to my Mac so I had to use a freaking cord too...and give up space at my computer station. I am going to use the piece of junk for this project and then sell the darn thing. The only thing that is saving it at the moment is that it will batch scan and automatically detect photos (mostly).
So for now photos go downstairs in a pretty container they are scanned and sorted to family name and then they go back upstairs into manila envelopes. Uffda.
My Great Grandmother Hadwig (Hattie) she was a twin, her twins name was Elsie. Somewhere I have a photo of them that appeared in the newspaper when they were in the same Nursing Home.
I got the Facebook Group Family page up and running yesterday. Mission partly accomplished. Now to scan and scan some more!
The outside Fall Project list is complete, yesterday my other baby brother and his crew showed up and new plastic was put on the greenhouse/woodshop! We are so thankful to have that done before it snows!
Far Side.
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What a great photo of your great grandmother!
People who have photos of their long gone family are so lucky in my view. I hope the ones who are young will appreciate seeing where they came from.
I am slowly falling behind in my family photo scanning project. I inherit them faster than I scan them and that is phase one. Creating online photo albums that can be printed off in book hardcopy format is my ultimate goal.
I too have a Canon scanner and love the batch scanning mode. Hopefully they fixed it but on mine, after scanning awhile, it will suddenly loose calibration and start cropping pictures or adding margins of nothing off to the side. But I found that there is a setting you can toggle that tells it to calibrate before every scan and that will prevent it from happening but adds a lot of time. So I usually just wait until it happens, turn the scanner off and then back on and then do it again for awhile longer before it will lose calibration again.
I'm really struggling with storing photos but the manila envelope idea sounds appealing and easy to group pictures. I tried buying new archival quality albums and putting them in those but the sorting and placing takes a lot of time I don't want to spend. Thus far I have been scanning them from the container they were in and then moving the container to a pile on the opposite side of the room. That obviously isn't a very good solution.
Great project started but how frustrating with technology. I have some of the same projects to do -- go through old pictures, scan and save. I have an old old printer that scans, I thought it was dying back in 2013. Trouble is I haven't found something I like :) Happy scanning to you!
That photo of your great grandmother is lovely. It's obviously been well-cared for. I'm sure your family appreciate the work you're doing, though they may not realize just how much work it is.
I need to do some major picture scanning too, but keep putting it off. My brother-in-law brought me several boxes of pictures to scan. Setting up a family Facebook group is a great idea for sharing. I did a Dropbox when I scanned my mother-in-law's photos but no one accessed them. Good luck on this big big project.
When I started my photo scanning project I bought an Epson flat bed scanner. The main reason I chose that was because it could scan photos and documents up to 11 by 17, plus it had an attachment that would scan 35mm slides. It also has the option of choosing different dpi resolution. I place multiple small photos on the surface, scan and save to a folder. I then crop each individual one, edit as needed, and label with identifying info and save. It might not be as fast or efficient as your Canon but it does a wonderful job.
Any time you bring Apple into the mix, you are asking for problems.
Our kids, especially the two boys are really interested in geneology. Alex scans and stores anything we give him, but being so far away it's hard to get them to him.
I hope everything starts talking to each other soon for you. Technology is wonderful but can be so frustrating too.
Our first snow is forecast for tonight, possibly. Who knows for sure until it comes down? Yesterday was 77F!
Blessings,
Betsy
That is a very cool photo. I bet there are many cool photos in your collection!
Is your Wi-fi upstairs? I couldn't use my laptop in the kitchen because it was too far away. They said I needed a wi-fi extender...about $25...I haven't gotten it yet but if it works upstairs and not downstairs that might be the problem?
Love the photo of your great grandmother. Thanks for the bird id....I remember you talking about "assups" last year! LOL! Glad you're all set for winter.
All these old photos are so precious and yet it is such a mammoth job trying to organise them all. I have digitized a lot but still have so many albums and boxes of photos to sort through. It gets a bit overwhelming so I haven't done much lately. Sometimes I think I should just choose out the very best photos and dump the rest.
I am trying to change my photo process. I use an iPhone most of the time now and my photos go automatically to the icloud. However I recently discovered that any photo I delete from my phone is also deleted from the cloud. Uffda here too. I have to figure out a new system.
Good luck with your project. It sounds like a good way to pass the winter days.
Was wondering what year Hadwig’s photo was taken… make a guess if you don’t know.
Your great-grandmother looks like a formidable lady.
Your chore of sorting and scanning old pictures sounds daunting. Good luck.
Sam, I had wifi upstairs for the laptop and it said I had it on the printer but I could not get the windows laptop to talk to the printer wirelessly. Brought it downstairs and couldn't get the printer to talk to my Mac or the windows laptop...the wifi router is downstairs. So I just use a cord to connect the two! Pain in the butt technology!
Galla Creek The Photo was taken before 1934...possibly in the late 1920's.
Lots of projects going at your place...and they all sound interesting, and also a lot of work!
Gosh, what a project! I know because my tubs of inherited photos are waiting for me to start. The photo of Hattie is wonderful!! What a treasure!
I can't get devices to talk to each other at all. My printer just went offline for no apparent reason (had worked the day before) and I have to get Dagan or Leah to fix these things. I probably wouldn't be online at all if it weren't for them--lol! You amaze me with all you do! :)
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