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Creating Digital Copies
Home » Genealogy » Pictures and Rare Documents - How to Share them with Future Generations » Creating Digital CopiesPosted by Your Guide on July 6, 2006 9:53 PM
Another way to preserve a document is to make copies of it available to others. Sharing copies of the family pages from Grandma's Bible lets those people know that not only do you share a common heritage, but that you value their interest in the past. You may be the one to keep the Bible and pass it on, but you may not. Having copies of the family pages is almost as good as having the original, and it allows you to place those pages in a file with other information about Grandma. You would not be able to place Grandma's entire Bible in the file without harming it.
However, you can also make copies of valuable papers available to others on the internet and by email. Placing copies of old pictures on your family web site allows all members of the family to see and enjoy them, enhancing that feeling of "knowing" great Grandpa, even if he lived so long ago that they couldn't have really known him.
Sharing copies of photos and other documents with other family members also lets them know that you value their connection to the past as being just as valuable as yours. No one of us has a higher priority claim on the past. On the contrary, it is our responsibility to share it with others.
Only one ancestor can "own" the original copy of Grandma and Grandpa's wedding photo, but through digital copies, color copiers, and flat bed scanners, every one of the grandchildren can have a copy framed and nestled on top of the piano or in a precious photo album. Actual photo duplications are also available at a higher cost. The cost includes making a negative of the original photo and then printing actual photos from the negative. Making a negative must be done in a professional studio, but once it is done, any number of duplicate photos can be created that rival the beauty of the original.
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