09-30-2007, 03:48 AM
Hi Dave,
About the photos... again, this is not a kind environment for them. I ended up leaving the family photo albums with my brother in San Jose, and glad I did -- they are irreplaceable. Of my own, the ones that have done the best are in the kind of albums that have little pockets on plastic pages. The ones that were mounted on standard albums (paper pages) stuck together after awhile, and I lost a number of them. Learning point is to never let them go face-to-face. Personally, I'd take the old ones to a scanning service and digitize them for preservation.
Also, if you have camcorder tapes or vcr tapes of value, you might look into a humidity-proof box for them. They mold!!!
Thanks heavens for digital photography!
Jane
About the photos... again, this is not a kind environment for them. I ended up leaving the family photo albums with my brother in San Jose, and glad I did -- they are irreplaceable. Of my own, the ones that have done the best are in the kind of albums that have little pockets on plastic pages. The ones that were mounted on standard albums (paper pages) stuck together after awhile, and I lost a number of them. Learning point is to never let them go face-to-face. Personally, I'd take the old ones to a scanning service and digitize them for preservation.
Also, if you have camcorder tapes or vcr tapes of value, you might look into a humidity-proof box for them. They mold!!!
Thanks heavens for digital photography!
Jane