While it's a process that's taken like 10+ years to get close to finishing, I've been trying to archive the entirety of my family's photo collection. I would start with one batch, do another weeks later. While I still have a small set at my grandma's house to finish, all of the photos at my aunt's house and mom's house have now been scanned and saved and backed up. This, combined with the thousand
s of digital photos since ~2006, currently encompass my dad's family's past 60 years. The process has been tweaked time and again, and now it's probably as streamlined as I can get it. Organizing images afterward takes some time, but I can then move on to the next set. But after a few conversations, I was given the idea to make it a service offered to others. The catalyst to get the latest (and largest) batch scanned was due to the knowledge that there were so many of these memories that involve my grandfather which he can no longer share with us. He passed last November due to complications from a stroke he suffered in mid September. He worked for years and years at a couple of radio stations in San Salvador, as well as running one himself afterward. He had a whole history prior to being "grandpa" that we had would discuss every time we visit, but new photos raise so many new questions about his early life. So many things I and the rest of the family wish they could ask him about now, which could have been answered had we only bothered to look through these photos years and years ago, rather than discovering them in boxes days, weeks, months after the fact. So, in the most long winded way, I've decided I'm going to offer scanning and digitizing photos services to people who want to have easier access to their photos, be able to share them online and amongst family and friends, and protect them from being lost due to various reasons. Photos, can fade, humidity can warp them, they can stick to each other, and living in Houston, floods and heat can wreck so many things so quickly. It is heartbreaking to hear all the memories friends and family have lost due to the elements even in just the past few years. If you've read this far, thanks. It's still a work in progress, but I should have something ready next week. For now, please check these out and follow if you're interested. If want to know more, message me on either of these.
