Comments on: Favorite Genea-Technology Tools

By: Janice Brown

Janice Brown — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:54:06 +0000

I’m glad you focused on the topic of what we need to do NOW to preserve our own history for the future. Photographs are the perfect method.

Thank you for the great article.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:16:42 +0000

My favorite is still Family Search. Together with this wonderful software I use many other things…

By: Colleen

Colleen — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:13:49 +0000

In my family there are/were three portraits that we kids always knew would become the center of a tug-of-war. One was of my paternal grandparents, Joseph and Mary (Hodick) McHugh on their wedding day (1925). One was of my parents on their wedding day (1959). The last was of my mother’s mother on her confirmation day (ca. 1914).

The one of my parents has not been seen in years. Fortunately we have other portraits of this day that filled the gap.

The one of my paternal grandparents, we had a 9 x 7 copy of that a professional photography shop was able to adapt to a more typical width and enlarging. I then had copies of this made. Which is good that we had the 9 x 7 since the original enlarged copy was in a bubble frame, which would have made copying and photographing very difficult.

The one of my maternal grandmother on her confirmation day was a different story. It was too big to put on a scanner even at the photography shop (without spending a fortune); besides, it was crumbling on the sides and I was terrified to let more hands touch it than absolutely necessary. My friend, however was able to take a decent digital photo of it, and the photog shop was able to restore the photo from that image (the original is deteriorating quickly).

So yes, taking photos of photos is a neat trick. Now there are no fights over who gets the pictures as we each have a copy! Now, fights over other things…..

By: djpoint

djpoint — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:11:37 +0000

Ken,

Thanks for visiting. I’m sure you’ll enjoy Steve Morse’s site. As for the camera, I never thought of using it for taking pics of photos either until I was faced with that very situation. If someone won’t actually loan you the photo, then you might have a better shot at just snapping a photo. If it’s still in a frame though, it will be tricky because of glare off of the glass.

Donna

By: Ken Spangler

Ken Spangler — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:27:40 +0000

Donna,

Wow! I’ve once again learned something new. I’ve never been to Steve Morse’s site but I will definitely bookmark it now.

I also enjoyed your tips for using your digital camera. I never even thought of using it to take pictures of pictures. I have many relatives who have old photos but refuse to allow them to be scanned or even taken out of the picture frames. I’m gonna have to check this suggestion out!