Queenie
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jan 4, 2005
Hi all,
I'm just working on a huge photo project - namely scanning all the family photos at my mum's house. These date from the late 1800's and there are literally tens of thousands! It's so tedious scanning them all in 4 at a time, naming and saving but it's great fun looking back. Just seeing the decor in the house changing (you can spot the ones taken in the 1970s a mile off!) and the fashions changing is fascinating, and that's not even including the stuff being photographed. Tonight I'm working on an album of pets, it's great seeing the old animals again, I still miss them all. Some I'd even forgotten about, like the goat my uncle owned when I was really little.
I just realised that if anything were to happen to mum's house (like a fire), we'd lose everything - all the photos of me, my sister and my parents growing up, basically every photo ever taken of my dad and grandparents. It just doesn't bare thinking about!
How do you guys have your old photos organised??
I'm just working on a huge photo project - namely scanning all the family photos at my mum's house. These date from the late 1800's and there are literally tens of thousands! It's so tedious scanning them all in 4 at a time, naming and saving but it's great fun looking back. Just seeing the decor in the house changing (you can spot the ones taken in the 1970s a mile off!) and the fashions changing is fascinating, and that's not even including the stuff being photographed. Tonight I'm working on an album of pets, it's great seeing the old animals again, I still miss them all. Some I'd even forgotten about, like the goat my uncle owned when I was really little.
I just realised that if anything were to happen to mum's house (like a fire), we'd lose everything - all the photos of me, my sister and my parents growing up, basically every photo ever taken of my dad and grandparents. It just doesn't bare thinking about!
How do you guys have your old photos organised??