Digitizing Your Genealogy Cheat Sheet

You'll love this if...

• You want to preserve and share family keepsakes digitally
• You're seeking guidance for scanning family history photos and documents
• You want advice on which scanning tools and settings are best for archival purposes
• You want a quick-reference guide to key digitization techniques and strategies

Need help digitally preserving all the physical genealogy "stuff" you've accumulated-documents, photos, ephemera, family artifacts? You need the Digitizing Your Genealogy Cheat Sheet! Developed by Family Tree Magazineand Denise May Levenick as a companion to her book How to Archive Family Keepsakes, this Cheat Sheet is a quick-reference guide to solutions for your questions and conundrums about scanning, organizing and backing up files, and even whittling down your bulging paper piles.This six-page PDF features:

• hints for using a digital camera to copy genealogy documents
• seven steps to break the paper habit
• hard-drive backup checklist
• data-storage quick guide comparing capacities, prices and uses for six types of storage media
• scanner selection quick guide outlining the best uses for various scanning devices
• 10 tips for using a flatbed scanner
• scanning guidelines chart of scanner settings for different genealogy items, from photos to textiles
• roundup of scanning resources
• 12 strategies for naming files and organizing folders on your hard drive
• file-naming cheat sheet
• digitizing checklist

Use the at-a-glance strategies, tips and resources in the Digitizing Your Genealogy Cheat Sheet to jump-start your family history digitization projects!