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Post by Linda on May 31, 2020 14:29:54 GMT
I had some of my childhood photos - when my granny died, mum split up the (duplicate) photos she had sent granny between me and my sister (based on who was in them mostly) plus I got my first camera at 7- and I've scrapped some of them over the years.
I now have ALL of my childhood photos and oh my gosh, there are SO many. I'm very fortunate to have had two parents who owned cameras and loved taking pictures. There are black and white, colour, square, rectangle, polariod, slides...so many pictures.
I'm still scanning them but I'm almost through my childhood (currently scanning 1972 - I was born in 1970).
I have a plan for the pre-me photos - I'm going to make photo books. I have a plan for the post-graduation year photos (I graduated in 1988 and had my first kid in 1991) - I'll do year in review photo books with selected photos.
I don't know what to do with 1970-1988...do I scrap them and combine with the pages I've already done - but now instead of the one photo for an event I've already scrapped, I now have several more... Do I scrap some photos and do photo books with the majority?
[and I don't even want to think about the cost and time all these photo books are going to take - but as the family historian and now photo archivist of the family - I want the old photos to be accessible and that seems the best way to preserve them, caption them, and pass them on]
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Post by grammadee on May 31, 2020 15:02:40 GMT
When my brother discovered a box of my Mom's photos in the old house in which we grew up, my niece scanned and captioned them. She then made each of us a CD with the photos so that we can print what we want. My other brother created a Slideshow with selected photos, ordered chronologically and with music added, and that is on the same CD. I took some of the photos and used them on some of the pages in a family reunion scrapbook.
Since you have already scanned the photos, could you caption them and save them all on a stick which could be duplicated for your kids and your sister's family? Then you will also have them to scrap "at leisure" when you want to feature them on a page or add one of them to a current page...
My niece chose to caption the photos by name, and that is how they organize themselves in the file, which makes it easy for someone who is searching for a particular family (say one of my brothers' kids). I don't know if it is possible to caption them by date as well, but that would sometimes be handy when searching through them.
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Post by Linda on May 31, 2020 15:59:22 GMT
Thanks grammadee - I'm uploading to Google Drive and sharing with my sister and my kids that way but I want something tangible that can (hopefully) be passed down (and yes, my kids have expressed interest in that. I'm not looking to photo book ALL of the photos - because that's just too much in so many ways but I do want a good selection - I think digital is likely to end up 'lost' due to not maintaining the cloud accounts (once I die - the payments to Google will stop and they'll jettison my photos) and to technology changes. I'm mostly wondering whether I try and incorporate all the photos of me as a child into scrapbooks and what to do with the 6-8 photos of say Christmas 1975 when I've already scrapped the one photo of Christmas 1975 I had previously |
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Post by msliz on May 31, 2020 16:52:30 GMT
... I'm mostly wondering whether I try and incorporate all the photos of me as a child into scrapbooks and what to do with the 6-8 photos of say Christmas 1975 when I've already scrapped the one photo of Christmas 1975 I had previously I'm in a similar situation. My mother recently gave me back a huge stack of photos of my children. Many of them are new-to-me photos from events I've already scrapped. My plan is to retrofit them into my albums, whether that means making additional pages or re-doing my completed pages. It's a daunting task, but I think that's the only way I'll be happy with the outcome. |
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Post by Linda on May 31, 2020 17:58:02 GMT
msliz - I think that's probably what I'm going to end up doing - and yes, daunting is a good word
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Post by 950nancy on May 31, 2020 18:10:32 GMT
My mom made each of us a photo album that she filled as we grew up. It is one book. You could fit a year of photos on two pages for some years. I love having the pictures, but I don't have a lot.
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Post by myboysnme on May 31, 2020 21:55:01 GMT
I have ended up just scrapping all of my photos and I just got a 12x12 scanner from a friend. What I plan to do if I live long enough is scan my layouts and make photo books of pretty much all my albums. I already know my kids cannot deal with hundreds of albums.
I enjoyed scrapping my childhood photos but if I was in your situation where most of your photos are not scrapped, I would probably scan the pages you already did and make them part of photo books.
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Post by justjac on May 31, 2020 23:04:58 GMT
I have ended up just scrapping all of my photos and I just got a 12x12 scanner from a friend. What I plan to do if I live long enough is scan my layouts and make photo books of pretty much all my albums. I already know my kids cannot deal with hundreds of albums. I enjoyed scrapping my childhood photos but if I was in your situation where most of your photos are not scrapped, I would probably scan the pages you already did and make them part of photo books. What kind of scanner is it? I've been thinking about getting one, but most of the ones I found were 11x17 or if larger super expensive. I would love to be able to scan my layouts. |
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Post by myboysnme on Jun 1, 2020 0:14:34 GMT
What kind of scanner is it? It is a Brother Professional Series Multifunction L6500 series (I think the is the series) I paid her $50 for it and it is really large. |
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Post by Linda on Jun 1, 2020 0:25:18 GMT
I enjoyed scrapping my childhood photos but if I was in your situation where most of your photos are not scrapped, I would probably scan the pages you already did and make them part of photo books. That's a good idea - especially given how many I have - and I scrap 8.5x11 so not hard to scan (and many of my layouts are already scanned actually). so the options I'm looking at a)scrap all the childhood photos into albums and adapt/redo the current layouts b) scan my current layouts and make photo books with the layouts and photos c) make photo books with all the photos and compile the layouts I've already done into a random 'childhood memories' album and just scrap random photos for that album if/as I feel inspired I'm leaning towards C at this point |
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Post by joblackford on Jun 1, 2020 0:28:20 GMT
For the extra photos, you could do additional pages in layout style, or you could perhaps add pocket page inserts. Or if you don’t care for pocket pages, simple grid layouts in a similar style to pocket pages. Whether you want to include a lot of them probably depends on how much you like the “new” photos and how much they add to the story.
What a treasure to have, but yes, also a daunting task to manage.
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