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If you are scanning images for the purpose of creating a report, or publishing a family history, then scanning in color or grey scale at 300 dots per inch resolution, will give you the best quality.
Scanning lots of documents for your family history project? if so, scan them in grey scale, not color, and use a low-resolution of 72 dots per inch. This will save space and make your scans go faster.
When you're copying old family photographs, see if you can find the original negative.
Use archival quality acid-free sheet protectors for all of your original documents, master copies and photographs.
Look for the archival label on storage products - “acid free” or “archival safe”.
Do not laminate your documents. A laminated document can never be restored to its original state.
Bring old photographs with you when you visit relatives to conduct oral history interviews and ask your interview subject to show you his or her photo collection.
In the 19th and early 20th entries, photographers could order cards preprinted with their name and address which they used to mount their customers' photographs.
Always scan original documents and transcribe them to preserve the data.
You need to start to collect pictures of your family and the places they have lived.
Since there are a lot of categories, please choose a category to see just those FACTS!
We are indebted to Lee County Genealogy Society (FL) for a large majority of the "Facts" available on this page. Their list originally contained just over 490 facts. We have reduced that number for our site but will add some as we continue to build our new website.