Last month’s photogenealogy article explained how to prepare printed family history photos for scanning. This article will explain how to care for prints post-scanning, that is assuming that the prints will be kept after scanning. My experience suggests that most people keep their prints, but some don’t! And, of those people that keep their prints, some want to have regular access to them, while others just want to store them away safely. Either way, there are several factors that should be considered when deciding where and how to keep precious family history prints.
11 threats to prints
Threats to prints arise from fire, water, loss/theft/vandalism, physical, chemical and biological damage, fading due to light especially ultra-violet light, humidity, temperature, time and finally, disassociation, which occurs when photos are not annotated…
