Digitizing all your old photos is a great goal, but there are good ways and bad ways to go about it. Here’s a scanning mistake I see all too often that you’ll really want to avoid. Passing down a digital … Read More
You’ve scanned a box of photos and now what do you do with the original photos? The problem of keeping everything If you have a box or two or three of photos, keeping all the original photos after scanning them … Read More
Do you have a photo album filled with photos you want to digitize, but the photos aren’t easy to remove? Here are three ways you can scan photos stuck to a photo album. I have several 12 x 12 Creative … Read More
Do you have grandchildren? If you do I bet you take a lot of photos of your grandchildren, right? And as a new grandma myself, I can understand why! But way before I became a grandma I noticed that some … Read More
March 31 is World Backup Day, and it’s a fitting reminder to take a moment for an annual checkup on how you’re doing with your backup processes and habits. Here are three important backup steps to help make sure you … Read More
Like the Holy Grail the search for a perfect photo book can be elusive, but it’s still desirable. Take this great question posted in a comment under one of my YouTube videos: “I’m collecting all of our family photos and … Read More
It’s January 2021! A great time to look ahead and plan what you want to accomplish this year with your family history, so let’s talk about what it takes to tackle and finish a family history project or book. Not … Read More
Digitizing old photo albums wasn’t on my radar until this summer when forest fires got so close to my home that the air outside was difficult to breath because of the smoke. Charlie and I decided to get ready BEFORE … Read More
What happens when you come across a family historian who is reaching millions of people with the message that our photos and our stories matter? You find out more about him and his mission by interviewing him! That’s exactly what … Read More
Do you have old family videos to digitize? The Do-It-Yourself Elgato Video Capture device may be just the ticket. We recently sent an old VHS tape we had of some family memories off to ScanCafe.com to see how they would … Read More