Digitize Family History
| Digitize family history so that you can share it more easily and preserve it at the same time. One library (the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah) has 278,000 books related to genealogy. There are many other genealogical libraries in the US and around the world. Imagine the volume of family history only available in printed materials. If we digitize it, we can preserve it and share it. |
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Share Family History Digitally
You spend lots of time writing your own life story, typing the interviews of your grandparents, collecting photos, and then what? Do you spend your savings at the copy store to make copies you can share? Do you hire a printer to print a book? You might do those things. Digitize it. Today you can share these treasures more easily. With a website you can display the stories, provide downloadable histories or photos. Even a professionally created family history website might cost you less than printing a book. A digital website doesn’t have one of the primary limits of a book. If your grandparents printed 1,000 books in 1977, how many descendants are there now? Could you afford to reprint the book? With a website you can simply give people who are interested the URL to your family’s website. Digitize it.
Share family history pictures without paying to print more. Just email your photos, once digitized, to anyone who has access to an email account. You can make photos available for download, and easily upload them for others to share. Current photo scanning and editing technology makes it easy to scan old photos and make new images that restore ripped or faded images.
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Sharing and Preserving Family History
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Preserve Your Family History Digitally
Sharing family history is a very prominent advantage of the technology we have today. However, nothing since the invention of the printing press in 1440 has improved our ability to preserve information than the advances made in our Information Age. Printing replaced copying by hand. Digitizing probably won’t replace printing. So why not do both? Digitize that family history book that your grandparents published. You could burn your information including text, images, audio, video, onto a CD or DVD, and then watch for new information storage and preservation technology then transfer that data to the new method. This could be propagated through generations.
Digitizing Family History: We Can Help You With That
DigitizeFamilyHistory.com is dedicated to promoting the sharing and preservation of family history utilizing digital technology. If you want to know how to scan and restore photos, we can help you with that. If you want to find the life story of your relatives, we can help you with that. If you want to choose a website service that fits you, we can help you with that. Visit our Family History Directory to find family history websites by name. Any technology, method, or tip that pertains to this subject, we aim to find it, learn it, and share it here at DigitizeFamilyHistory.com
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