Showing posts with label ScanFest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ScanFest. Show all posts

Sunday, December 26, 2010

ScanFest Sunday

Today was the monthly ScanFest over at AnceStories.  This is my second time participating, and I love it.  It gives me a set time, once a month for three hours, to scan my family history documents.  Otherwise, without the "appointment," I would just keep putting it on the back burner.  

Today I did 90+ scans:
  • A couple of pictures and memorabilia I got from my mom recently; 
  • My aunt's baby book that my mom found at her house (and which, of course, I will be mailing to my aunt this week); 
  • My mom's birth certificates (one official, one decorative with her footprints); 
  • My mom's baby book; 
  • Several "new baby" greeting cards my grandmother had saved from my mother's birth, along with a couple of her birthday cards from her first year; 
  • My mom's 1st grade report card; 
  • My mom's high school graduation announcement; and 
  • My brother's birth and death certificates.    
That completes the documents I had on file for my mom!  I'm very excited about that!  

One of the "Welcome
New Baby" cards -
this one from her aunt.













Of course, I still have a stack of pictures (more my mom passed along recently) to scan.  I'll do a few a week, probably, to get them done.  I don't want to wait until next month's ScanFest (January 30th, from 11am-2pm PST).  I have already planned what I'm going to do then:  any documents I have for my paternal grandparents.  I'm moving right along.  And it feels GOOD to get this done.  

Now I just need to back these files up somewhere...