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Family History Projects
Services to help you:
Scan photos and other memories
4×6, 5×7, 8×10, and 11×17 prints, photo albums, scrapbooks
Children’s artwork, documents, newspaper clippings, memorabilia
Digitize slides
35mm slides, photographs, 35mm negatives, professional 120 negatives, large format, negatives, and transfer images from DVDs to include in your collection
Transfer movies, videos, and audiotapes
Your old home movies on VHS, 16mm, Super 8, 3” reels, 5” reels, 7” reels
Organize your collection
We’ll organize by date, then further personalize
• A naming protocol is created, so you easily can find what you want
• Archival boxes are the preferred way to store prints, slides and documents
• Archival storage consulting
Access your images
Together, we’ll determine the best way for you to access your images anytime, anywhere
Options include:
• Cloud storage – Apple Photos, Dropbox
• Lightroom
• Forever.com – a site for family archives. You pay a one-time fee for space and that’s it. Then, invite family members to add photos and descriptions. The real benefit is you have this digital space for 100 years, so it passes down to children, grandchildren, and future generations.
You’ll also want to back up your images. Depending on volume, we will determine the best system so you have a backup.
Share
Now, you can use and share your newly organized family images!
• Family history projects
• Holidays and milestone events – birthday, graduation, wedding, celebration, memorial service
• Photo gifts
• Custom photo album
• Hardcover book
• Oral history
• Celebration video montage
• Memory gift box
• Slideshow
Nonprofit, Foundation or Corporate Archives
Save, organize, and share your archive collection. Archival storage consulting is available for collections of all sizes.
Why Create a Digital Corporate Archive?
Carefully and intentionally preserved business records form the collective memory of an organization.
These assets become living, breathing documentary evidence of founding principles, mission-driven founders and employees, and past events. These sometimes hidden yet invaluable treasures hold great worth for the preservation of history and culture, and to shine a light on the creation of a company and its core values.
Your collection becomes a demonstration of what makes a company authentic. The archives may hold the key to the defining aspects of a company’s unique brand proposition, such as a secret recipe, slogan, brand design, logo, or philosophy.
A well-organized and carefully maintained archive serves as an active business development resource:
• A rich, compelling history can create positive branding messages and establish a unique identity.
• Well-maintained archives provide a resource for understanding the development of a corporation. It documents important changes over time that may otherwise be lost through management transitions or poor record keeping.
• Vintage photographs, images and product literature can be referenced in new sales and marketing materials, merchandising and other revenue generating vehicles.
• Archived records can spark new research and development efforts by building on a company’s vibrant past.
• Archives help protect the company from trademark infringement and other legal and IP threats.
• Managers and leaders can learn volumes from a company’s well-documented history. They can more effectively plan for the future and gain inspiration from examples of how past challenges were overcome and successes celebrated and leveraged.
Save, organize and share your archive collection. Consulting for archival storage and organization is available for collections of all sizes. Please contact me so we can discuss your needs, assets and timeline.
CASE STUDY
As Project Lead for the YMCA of Metro Atlanta, I oversaw the organization’s year-long 160th Anniversary Celebration. During this intensive four-year immersion, I nurtured relationships and created processes to develop a thriving digital archive of the Y’s key historical assets.
This included digitizing and cataloging more than 40,000 assets – photographs, legal documents, videos, collateral pieces, newspaper articles, and more – into a digital asset management system that enabled multiple departments (marketing, membership, development, leadership) to access a wide range of resources that were branded, approved and easily accessible. I published a commemorative anniversary book, created an interactive timeline on the YMCA website and supported the production of a 30-minute documentary.