| Posted on: | Category: Documents | OCR Tips Preserve Your Heritage
How To
Have you ever wanted to convert that old paper history of grandma Jones to a cleaned up scanned version that you can save on your computer or share with others? This is not a difficult feat to do. There are three basic ways to this.
1. ...
Have you ever wanted to upload old family videos to FamilySearch? Though FamilySearch doesn't have a specific mechanism to do this, it is still possilble to "reference" them on FamilySearch. For example, I have converted some old 8mm film movies to a digital format and it would be fun ...
Every time I go to an ancestor's Person Page on FamilySearch, I start to feel guilty that there is no life sketch on that person. There are often many sources, and other information that I have collected on the person, like occupations, physical characteristics, ...
One of the common scanning problems I have seen over the years with photos uploaded to FamilySearch has been one that is shown above. A photo is scanned on a flatbed scanner, but the person forgot (or didn't know how) to crop the photo so the rest of the scanner bed is ...
Just recently, MyHeritage released some fascinating new artificial intelligence technology to animate old photographs, just like those seen in the Harry Potter movies. I have to admit, it is a bit "creepy" watching an old photo suddenly "coming to life" but still ...
Where do all our photographs, histories, pedigrees, and other family history collections go when we die? As my parents got into their 80s, my mom began to get anxious about passing on all the boxes of family history collections to someone in the family. There were about 6 good sized ...
Are you one of the many out there that have old grainy black & white photos of your ancestors, or maybe of your early childhood? Some exciting developments are coming as Artificial Intelligence continues to develop! Artificial Intelligence is slowly creeping into the photography field. ...
Summer has snuck up on me once again. It wasn’t very long ago that we still had snow on the ground. As with many families, we have been once again been faced with the thoughts about getting all our family together for a reunion. I am a procrastinator by trade, ...
I LOVE newspapers.com for all the information that I can find about my ancestors. Saving those articles is easy when the article is in a column or two, and not mixed with other content, like advertisements. I really ...
Most of us engaged in family history work will have a slew of digital photos & documents stored on our computer’s hard drive representing years of hard working to collect them. ...
Many of us have old family photos that have discolored, become darker, or lighter over time. Color negatives and even slides can drastically change color over the years giving them those odd color tones. It is a great time to assess the status of your aging family ...
I love to learn more about my ancestors! Of course, I am saying this later in my life, when I have personally become an "ancestor" to my 5 children and twenty-three grandchildren. How I wish that I had asked more questions of my grandparents, or other living ...
There are many different kinds of "family history" activities. It's not all about researching ancestors, scanning old photographs, and so forth. It's just not about our ancestors! Think about this for a moment...some of you are grandparents or parents. You are ...