OT: Preserving Family Photos question

VERY important, those pages are deadly but do it carefully.

I had so many that I purchased archival boxes for them and wrote carefully on the backs who the people in them are - having learned from my grandmothers photos that neither my aunt or I know who some of the people are and can only hazard a guess. I also made up photo repeats into boxes for each kid. They can have the balance when I am gone.

Be prepared, it's a long and tedious job lol

Hi! No help with the sleeves other than to check with scrap-booking websites. But: One suggestion: scan each page of photo's into the computer (and into a computerized family album) BEFORE you disassemble it. That way you will still have the original layout, and avoid tearing and losing any photo's. Sandy

We really want to get the

I have use this company's products; you might give them a look.

in Scottsdale>> Since the group seems to be the font of all knowledge - I am in the>> midst of a project to make copies of the family photos and papers for>> all siblings. Mom wants me to get the photos out of the sticky-paper>> books they are in and into archival sleeves.> We really want to get the>> photos off that sticky stuff before they get glued to it (which has>> happened in one book already). Just to note - some of these photos>> are over 100 years old.>>

Fran from my experience , old photos need some treatment, at times and you better ask experts about it . It might be against bacteria or fungus, that tend to attack old photos and documents. mirjam

You could scan the old photos and convert them to suitable sizes to match the sleeves.

Pat