The Southern California Genealogical Society kicks off its 2015 series of free twice-monthly webinars with Preservation of Photographs and the Importance of a Good Scan on Saturday, January 3, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern time. Brett Payne is the guest lecturer.
The correct storage and preservation of your family photographs is incredibly important if you want your grandchildren’s grandchildren to be able to inherit and benefit from them. In this presentation I will describe how to protect your old photographs, but just as important is to create digital copies which can be looked at any number of times, without affecting the quality of the original. Not all scans are created equal, though, and it’s very important to you do the job properly, so as to maximise the information that you and others will be able to extract and interpret. A decent scan, well documented with ancillary information about the photographs’s location, history, provenance, etc., is worth every extra minute spent on it.
Brett Payne, originally a geologist by training, now currently works in the museum industry as a collections assistant, artefact photographer, researcher and photographic historian. His passion is old photographs, the photographers who took them, the equipment and technologies they used, the people and scenes in the photos, and the stories behind them.
You can register for the webinar here. The live broadcast is available to the public for free. It will be archived for society members.
