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Digitizing Printed Photos
The photographs you and your family have collected over the years are little windows to the past. When you look out those windows, you can relive your memories, or experience the past through the eyes of your ancestors.
The digital images created from your printed photos will prevent further deterioration of your photos, “freezing” that image as it looked on the day it was digitized. A digital image will not fade or discolor with age.
Book & Document Digitization
Handwritten notes, old yearbooks, journals, newspaper clippings, and other documents can connect you to your history in a very tangible and meaningful way.
Almost anything printed on paper can paint a picture of the way our family, community, state, or country existed at almost any time in history and provide clues that can unlock the past, giving you invaluable insight into the people, places, events, and accounts that can inform your perspective of your family’s history.
Digitizing Your Photo Negatives
The best option to digitize your photographs, negatives offer superior image quality when compared to a digital scan of the printed photo. The higher resolution image will show more sharpness and detail, ensuring the snapshot of your history is the highest quality available!
We have the equipment and experience to digitize almost every photographic negative format, both common and uncommon, you might have in your collection.
Digitizing Your Slides
Slides and photographs capture a moment in your past “as it happened” seen through the eyes of those who witnessed it. It is likely that you or a close relative have a shoebox full of photographic slides full of these captured moments. Those moments can’t be enjoyed or shared when they are sitting in a box collecting dust on the top shelf of a closet.
Slides show exactly what was captured on film without losing any detail that might be lost in printing the photo. They differ from photo negatives in that they do not need to have the polarity “swapped” after digitization. If you hold the slide to the light, you will see the image in full color, and in crisp, although very small, detail.
Digital Image Conversions
We all have digital photos or videos captured from our phone and cameras, or memories we have digitized on our own. We can convert any file into a format and structure so that it can be integrated into your archive.
This includes digital photos or videos captured from your phone, camera, or camcorder, as well as documents, photos, or videos scanned by a 3rd party. You can even scan your documents or photos yourself on your home scanner or multifunction device, and we can add those to your archive as well.
Digitizing Your Audio & Video
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My History Archives
The "My History Archive" subscription includes the online hosting, search platform, and access tools that power your archive, transforming your collection of files into an archive that can be explored for new discoveries, or for reliving old memories.
You can share what you discover with others, and connect with your past in a way you could not with a box of old photos, a scrapbook of clippings, or a DVD of pictures. By making your archive available to others, family history research can be shared, discovered, and expanded on through collaboration with other genealogists or those with a shared family connection.
This Is YOUR History
Preserve It!
The history documented in the pictures, negatives, slides, papers, and recordings you have accumulated over the years represents your personal history. You may not realize it, but that history is fading away a little bit each day. Your photos, home movies, documents, and slides are losing their color, beginning to become brittle, and losing the battle in the war against time. By creating a digital copy of the recorded accounts of your history, you capture the past in a format that is not susceptible to the same risk factors as your analog collection.
Archive It!
The "My History Archive" is an online hosting, search platform, and access tools that power your archive, transforming your collection of files into an archive that can be explored for new discoveries, or for reliving old memories. You can share what you discover with others, and connect with your past in a way you could not with a box of old photos, a scrapbook of clippings, or a DVD of pictures. As more people create open "My History Archive"s a network of free genealogical tools will emerge, allowing for “crowdsourcing” of your family history research.
Share It!
Family history does not need to be locked behind a paywall or exclusively available via a prohibitively expensive subscription service. This is YOUR history, and you can share it with anyone you choose, at any time, and on any device. You can also explore, clip, and share information you find on any "My History Archive" that an owner has made available to use as a free resource for others, or leverage the hundreds of free Community History Archives created by libraries, genealogical societies, heritage centers, and other institutions across the country.
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Grow Your Archive Over Time
Your personal history isn’t doesn’t begin or end with a single document, book, or the research that was put into developing a family tree. Your history has been recorded in countless formats over the years, from letters, photos, and video, to old family recipes, journals, and newspaper clippings. Not only is it impractical to organize and access your physical original materials, handling them too often leads to damage and eventually, loss. Photos can tear, fade, or discolor. Videos and film can become brittle and crack or break, it is easy to scratch, and plastic cassettes are not as durable as you might think. Paper is fragile, making it vulnerable, and at risk of being lost to the ravages of time.
The originals should be stored properly for safekeeping and handled as little as possible. Fortunately, preserving the original materials does not mean you can’t have access to them. On the contrary, you have the option of making them more accessible than ever before. By digitizing your past, and creating a "My History Archive", you will be able to explore, view, and share your collection from anywhere in the world, at any time, using an Apple iPad, iPhone, Android phone or tablet, computer, Mac, Chromebook, or even a smart TV.
We can archive:
Printed Photos, Slides, Photo Negatives, Scrapbooks, Family History Books, Yearbooks, Journals, Diaries, Family Trees, Genealogical Research, Annuals, Census Records, Local History Books, Programs, Cookbooks, Newsletters, Record Books, Ledgers, Meeting Minutes, Directories, Manuscripts, Visitor Books, Muster Rolls, Documents, Marriage Certificates, Birth Announcements, Obituaries, Death Notices, Children’s Artwork, Postcards, Church Records, Correspondence, Handouts, Recipe Cards, Newspapers, Clippings, Memorabilia, Military Records, Drawings, Awards, Index Cards, Maps, Meeting Minutes, Heritage Collections, Property Records, Abstracts, Schedules, Bulletins, Immigration Records, Public Announcements, Transcripts, Oral Histories, Greeting Cards, Home Movies, Microfilm, Digital Photos...
...and almost anything else you can think of!
Additionally, you can leverage the hundreds of free Community History Archives created by libraries, genealogical societies, heritage centers, and other institutions across the country. We have made it simple to clip articles or other sections of documents and add them to your "My History Archive" with just a few clicks. You can also explore, clip, and share information you find on any "My History Archive" that an owner has made available to use as a free resource for others.