Digitizing Your Genealogy Cheat Sheet
Regular price
$9.99
“Whether you have a small collection of “analog” photos to scan or a mountain of memorabilia like me, you’ll find oodles of practical strategies and advice in this quick-reference guide to digital archiving. I particularly like the chart of scanner setting guidelines for different materials, and the file-naming cheat sheet.”
- Allison Dolan, Family Tree MagazinePublisher and Community Leader
- 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
- 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
Regular price
$9.99
“Whether you have a small collection of “analog” photos to scan or a mountain of memorabilia like me, you’ll find oodles of practical strategies and advice in this quick-reference guide to digital archiving. I particularly like the chart of scanner setting guidelines for different materials, and the file-naming cheat sheet.”
- Allison Dolan, Family Tree MagazinePublisher and Community Leader
- 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
- 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