How to Preserve Old Photos and Scrapbooks: The Archive Lady - Melissa Barker
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ก.ค. 2024
- Learn from The Archive Lady, Melissa Barker, how to archive photos and scrapbooks. Plus she has tips on digitizing and donating your personal archives to ensure they are not tossed by family after we’re gone.
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TIMING
0:00 Intro
0:13 Viewer questions regarding archiving
1:22 Melissa experience & background
1:56 How do we archive scrapbooks and photo albums?
2:44 Digitization is the highest form of preservation.
3:48 Tip - Always go to the next image.
4:18 Use archival tissue paper between the pages
4:52 Store in a cool, dark, dry place.
5:49 What about scrapbooks with plastic sleeves?
6:25 Keep the pages in original order.
6:49 How to digitize loose images or photos?
7:00 Treat them carefully and wear gloves
7:34 Try to pair or sort the images
7:50 Tip to not get overwhelmed with photographs.
8:25 Do you put the photos in sleeves or envelopes?
8:51 Use archival photo albums
9:19 How to archive videos?
9:36 Archiving slides and photo negatives.
9:58 What to use to scan the slides?
10:54 Black paper photo albums & magnetic albums
12:44 Tips to safely remove photos
14:00 Please plan on where you’re going to send your genealogical materials
14:50 Where to find Melissa Barker
I am a professional genealogist who loves to teach with video. It's all about genealogy, family history, and DNA to research. I strive to create the best free genealogy videos and webinars on TH-cam. I teach genealogy research skills to help you with your family tree and records research. The best genealogy tutorial videos on “Genealogy TV” are about how to keep research notes, staying organized, understanding genetic genealogy, find missing ancestors, where to find family history records, organizing DNA matches, and more. Here you can learn genealogy for free.
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Thank you Connie and Melissa. This is the information I was needing. I have photos in all kinds of albums and boxes of loose pictures. It is the albums I am most concerned about. So, your information is very helpful. I know now what to do with each kind. It will be a big job, but I can now do it correctly. Also, thank you about the scrapbooks. I have already purchased a box for one of them and can now scan it, put paper between pages and store it.
Awesome. It was a great question that others could learn from.
Love the dental floss and freezer tips, thank you.
Glad you like them!
Some great suggestions in there, Connie and Melissa. Thanks very much.
Instead of scanning slides, I put them in the slide projector, taped a smooth white piece of paper to the wall, projected them close up, and set up a digital camera on a tripod and photographed them. It worked quite well and was a lot faster than scanning. This method probably doesn't result in quite as clear an image, although they look pretty much like the photos I scanned. It enabled me to get a few hundred slides into the computer quickly and onto flash drives for everyone in the family. The slides can still be scanned at a future time if desired for the extra clarity.
Wonderful video including the discussion of what to do with our genealogies, pictures, etc. thank you.
I love my Epson V600. Not terribly expensive and wonderful at doing slides and negatives.
I have learned a lot from this discussion so I thank you now.
Thanks Ray
Love the freezer tip for magnetic (sticky) page photos. I’ll be trying this tip for sure 👏😊 as I have some that are stuck fast. Thank you
I have owned an Epson V600 for about 6 years. I love it!
I am 76 and in a small country area. We I grew up we were very poor and didn't have a camera. Back then, there were photographers who traveled through the country that would take photos if you had the money. So many of my family members photos were never taken.
Ah... that's a shame that you don't have images of them.
Thanks bunches
You bet
This was great! Makes me want to take a trip to see Melissa and her archives!
My granddad used to paint and I've got a few of his paintings.
Thanks for the tips, overwhelmed is me! I like the idea of 10 at a time.
Me too!
I have a tintype of my ancestor from 1880 but am afraid to send it to a professional to get a photo copy of it because I fear it could be damaged or lost. Great informative video!
The Epson V600 is my go to!
Thank you so much, very helpful information. I have been archiving and digitizing my family documents and photos for several years, but as I work full time it's a slow process, however, I have done a lot. I especially love your comment Melissa about donating. I have no children and what nieces, nephews, and other younger family members I do have, I'm pretty certain they will not be interested in the physical material that I have, so I have decided to donate to various historical societies. I work in the archiving/preservation field, so I know how important it is to keep historical documents and photos. I also have the Epsom scanner, love it!
I have an old black paper photo album, from my late Mother in Law, that some of the corner tabs have fallen off, along with some of the many photos, so there are lots of loose photos, and some are, of course, missing!
Hey, she's using the same scanner as I am. I feel like I made a good choice now. But, it's not an "all-in-one", it's a flatbed scanner good for photographs, negatives and slides. It does not print, wash your dishes, nor mop your floors.
It's been around for at least a decade. I'm on my 2nd one and you can buy them brand new for under $300.
If you're going to be scanning negatives, I highly recommend you invest in a piece of anti-newton ring glass large enough to cover your largest negative strips.
Perfect timing I recently received photos from my late father. I've been stressing over the 2 dozen Kodak individual slides. Fearing loss or damage if I had prints made to later digitalize. Thank you thank you !
Glad we could help
This is wonderful information! Thank you!
Any tips for archiving all of our current photos, like the 1000's we have on our phones!, for future generations? Wouldn't it be nice to do this now to save the headaches for for our children and grandchildren!
Something that changed my life is Shutterfly. I make digital scrapbooks, which is something I never thought I'd do, but holy cow, it saved me. It's super easy. You can use all the creativity you possess to design each page into a beautiful work of art! And if you don't like the layout or design you just spent an hour creating, change it effortlessly without ruining anything.
What I do is make yearly scrapbooks. So I have one scrapbook for the year 2014. Another for 2015, etc. This makes it manageable for me psychologically..."I am working on all things 2014, from photos to birthday cards to artwork." Plus it keeps each scrapbook from becoming too huge. I scan everything from 2014 onto my computer in a file named 2014. Then I upload it to Shutterfly, and fashion a 2014 scrapbook.
When I'm done, I can make copies for each of my kids so there's no fighting about who gets the scrapbooks when I die! Lol
I just make sure to ask all my family members for their phone photos, and any item they'd like to have scanned for that year's scrapbook, like awards, etc.
I now have a collection of yearly scrapbooks. Plus, if my house burns down, all I have to do is log into Shutterfly and there's my scrapbooks to reorder. Peace of mind.
I can't even express how much it has helped me take an overwhelming project and make it not only manageable but flat-out fun!
As for the originals, I keep them stored in boxes in a closet. The scrapbooks are on a living room shelf for anyone to pick up and enjoy. If one of the books gets ruined from being manhandled by dirty, sticky fingers, I could always order another one. I can relax!
@@mosaicmind88 WOW!! What a great idea! I actually have one of those, a small one, that I created right after my son was born, 13 years ago!, to preserve his birth pictures. WHY have I never thought of doing more!??! DUH!
Thank you!! for this awesome idea! 😃❤
Good question! I'll give that some thought.
My number one tip for anyone who uses a smartphone to capture important photographic memories for posterity;
Turn the phone to landscape mode, and use the highest resolution available.
Other than that, normal photo technique, as best as you can get from a telephone.
An actual bridge digital camera would obviously be better for important events.
@@Vector_Ze Thank you for the smartphone tip! And I agree, a smartphone isn't the best for great pictures. Unfortunately I, like many others, have slipped into the convenience of using them for most everything, including pictures. I have a Canon 77D and should get back in the habit of keeping it with me, like I did with my old 35mm Canon before the convenience of smartphones. 🙄
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Hello!
Just found time to watch this and on the topic of archiving last summer I became involved with a local Preservation Society who has the inordinate task of sorting/organizing the contents of my towns former Historical Society which all had been in storage for 9 years. What kind of video can you make out of this?
So basically archiving an archive?
I have 2 questions! One is, I have an older photo of my nan (grandmother) when she was younger. It was in a frame, but when a relative had, and wanted it out of the frame, found that the photo is stuck to the glass. Not the whole photo, but of course it'd have to be the part of the pic where my nan is. Is there a way I could separate them? The second question is abt slides. After my dad passed, I was blessed to get a tin that has a bunch of his slides. They're back from the mid 50s to mid 60s. Most are kinda dusty and dirty. Is there a way to clean them without ruining the slides? Thank you so much!
I forwarded your question to Melissa. Hopefully she can respond.
@@GenealogyTV thank you!
Answer from Melissa. For the first question you could use my answer to the other question about the photos sticking to the plastic photo album pages.
To clean photo slides, instead of me typing out a whole explanation, here is a great 2 minute video that can answer his question.
th-cam.com/video/OrY1tPaaHwc/w-d-xo.html
I would love a step by step tutorial on scanning with epson v600. I find it very clunky and cumbersome and assume I'm doing something wrong.
I think you'll find some useful information on TH-cam. I don't know whether this channel allows links, so you can just copy/paste the following into the TH-cam search bar...
epson v600 tutorial
Am I a bad person if I want to organise some family papers (old graduation certificates, autobiographies) into a nice cute album and have them ready for displaying when someone comes? 😅
I was thinking about something like a suede cover with some nice embroidery and transparent acrylic pages where a document will be trapped between two acrylic pages so you can look through the album without touching and taking them out? Unfortunately, it turns out to be really hard to find any information about that as if nobody does that.
The documents actually are not that old, around 60-80 years. Promise to keep them dry and clean 😊
You do you! Whatever inspires you. What you are describing is what I did when I got into scrapbooking my genealogy. I just set them on the coffee table when family comes over and before you know it, they're looking through them, telling stories etc. Go have fun with it.
What resolution is recommended for photos? Some shared online are very low resolution and poor quality. Also should black and white photos be scanned color? Some have a tint I like to preserve. Also format jpg or other (tif)?
Industry standard is 600 DPI. If I have an old image that I'm going to want to zoom in and see, say, a painting on the wall in the image, then I'll scan at a very high resolution like 2400 or higher. It depends on the scanner too, as to how high it will go.
Answer from Melissa Barker. You could try using dental floss (the unwaxed, unflavored kind) and try to run it between the photo and the plastic and see if they will come apart without hurting the image. If that doesn't work, try putting the pages in the freezer and see if they will release.
Otherwise, I would contact a photo conservator or leave it alone and put the entire page in an archival file folder.
Scan black and white photos in color (rgb) at 600 dpi. Jpg is fine if you’re not going to do a lot of manipulation on them, because every time you save a .jpg, it looses some of its quality. I always scan as jpg. Mainly I’ll crop, color correct and/or fix blemishes. The loss of quality is negligible.
My first photo album has the pictures stuck to the plastic. How do I archive them?
I would photograph or scan them as they are. You might not be able to remove them.
@@GenealogyTV thank you. I will try that.
Where can one donate old photos
Try your state or county archives and libraries.