[or-roots] old photos

[JVFRY at aol.com]

There are many systems on the market to sort and store your photos  in.  The 
most important issue is to make sure they are archival safe.
 
Older photo albums with magnetic paper will trap vapors that will destroy  
the pictures over time.  Most of the albums, scrapbooking papers, and  adhesives 
manufactured today are acid free, look for this on the  labels.
 
As to putting them in an album that is the best way to protect  them.   
I usually first decide the theme of the album.
Book of Me
Faithbooking
Time line
Heritage
 
Then I place the pictures that I want on the same page together, place a  
piece of colored paper / stickers that I want with them, cover them with a white  
piece of paper, then place the next group of pictures on top with papers and  
stickers and cover with white paper.  Doing as many pages as I have time  
for.  This is power sorting.  I then place this in a box.  Next  time I have time 
to work I can take this box out turn it over and am ready to  place the 
pictures in the album with suggested colored papers and  stickers.  It makes album 
making go a little quicker
 
I believe that it is very important to label each pictures with date,  place, 
event, people.  We are making albums so that those in the future  know who we 
are.  It is a shame to say, Yes this is someone in the family  but no one 
knows her name.
 
Judy 
_cmcjvfry at aol.com_ (mailto:cmcjvfry at aol.com) 
Oregon
 

OK, so I  am trying really hard to get organized.  I just went through a
dozen  on photo albums and took out the ones I wanted to keep.  My  question
is the best way to keep them.

So far I have seperated them  by each person.  Fortunately the ones with two
ancestors seem to also  have at least 2 copies.  So now i have a bunch of
pictures in big 9 X  12 envelopes.

What is the best way to file these?  I figure I will  be putting them into
protective sheeting of some kind.  Do I paste the  smaller ones onto a 8 1/2
X 11 piece of paper with annotations?

help  !!!!

Suzanne in  Newberg
suz_es at verizon.net
Clark/Sims/Henry/Lambert/Forrest (Yamhill  Cty)
Averill/Robison/Orr/Kingery (Benton, Coos, Linn  Cty)

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