How will our grandchildren look at Photos?

Me ^ | 8/16/18 | me

[Albion Wilde]

My paternal grandmother was the family genealogist. She had photos and meticulously written notes about our ancestors going back to Scotland. Alas, she developed Alheimer’s and, in a fit of depression, destroyed most of it.

We had the same thing happen re our Irish line. Tragic. She had done so much work, and then threw it all away.

[Will88]

Wow, I recall some old 77 rpm phonograph records, but no Edison cylinder records.

[LouieFisk]

They are cool, but they’re extremely fragile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnsizkVjGm8

Yeah, the 78s are more common, probably cause they’re more solidly built. Some of ‘em are pretty thick. Had quite a few of those around the house, too, growing up.

Everybody left their records at home so there was a wide array of hand-me-down music to listen to, fun days!

[Noamie]

My aunt gave me a cd of family images she scanned. She was very excited. Spent months on it.

Each was scanned at 72dpi roughly at 7”x5” and, apparently, she used a low-end scanner. Utterly useless for printing. Not really great for viewing either.

If a person doesnt know what they are doing they may end up wasting time.

[goodnesswins]

Oh, no...I think my scanner is great, whether I am scanning correctly" makes me wonder though...thanks for the prompt to do some checking.