I’ve started my winter project…going through several bins.
Yes, bins, of photos from my mother-in-law’s estate.
Here’s some advice. Label your photos. Even a note on the pack of negatives. A year on the back of the photo. Something to date it, place it.
I’m doing a presort first…quickly going through each bin and separating photos into a bin for each sibling. I’m putting family photos and photos of parents, grandparents in separate bins to divvy up later.
And then there’s the most interesting bin, filling up quickly with family history photos. Identifying all of these may prove to be impossible, at least not without input from some of the family elders. That’ll be a future step.
I’m having a hard time not being distracted by all the presumably ’30s and ’40s farm shots. I’ll try to periodically scan them in and share.
Virtual Farmgirl 
oh lord.
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There are several places to get photo/acid free archiving materials. Wal-mart ofcourse is what is everywhere in the scrapbooking sections, but since you are in a “real town” you, I am sure can find a hobby store, paper store, book store or even a kids homeschooling store. Then there is this magazine (can’t say its the best just the only one I know of).. exposures.com. It is worth it to get the acid free paper and photo pens. I have found the cheapest place for albums is ofcourse thrift stores. There are folks who will help with damaged photos or copying photos that you have no negative for but everyone in the family wants a copy of… (been there) Also, just over the holidays, I saw a family history “book”. A member did the history research and archiving and then published it (really fancy, not home stuff). He had his copy, and I assume other family members had theirs as well. Good Luck!
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oh lord.
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There are several places to get photo/acid free archiving materials. Wal-mart ofcourse is what is everywhere in the scrapbooking sections, but since you are in a “real town” you, I am sure can find a hobby store, paper store, book store or even a kids homeschooling store. Then there is this magazine (can’t say its the best just the only one I know of).. exposures.com. It is worth it to get the acid free paper and photo pens. I have found the cheapest place for albums is ofcourse thrift stores. There are folks who will help with damaged photos or copying photos that you have no negative for but everyone in the family wants a copy of… (been there) Also, just over the holidays, I saw a family history “book”. A member did the history research and archiving and then published it (really fancy, not home stuff). He had his copy, and I assume other family members had theirs as well. Good Luck!
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