[ratpack] Re: Scanner
- From: John Christensen <johncgg@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:24:44 -0600
When my dad's cousin Karl Peter Eskild Christensen passed away this May (no
will, no heirs, and no other immediate family, and that is still in process
with the estate) I got a bunch of photo albums from his branch of the
family. Karl and I had been working on the Christensen side of the family
tree via email, and when he was staying with me during his chemo. Someone in
his Mom's side must have been a photographer, or very well to do, because
there are lots of pictures of this same time period, of the inside of the
house, and candid photos of a little girl and playing with dogs, backyard
parties and such. Very interesting, and eventually I will get around to
scanning these, or at least a few of them.
We just celebrated a little party that my 13th Great Grandfather was at. On
my Mom's side, my Great Uncle did a lot of research that he passed on to me,
and it ties us to John Alden and Priscilla Mullins of the Mayflower. There
are several people on the Mayflower index, and the Revolutionary war. I have
some pictures of my Great Great Grandfather with his Civil War pin on too,
from the 12th Iowa, then transferring to the 4th Iowa Infantry. The detail
on the old silver plate stiff is really amazing.
You can spend your entire life on this stuff and not even get close to all
of it. I guess I am the Family genealogist, according to the people working
on the estate. I have to call a lawyer back about Karl on Tuesday.
JC
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John Christensen
Saint Charles, IL
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just ordered an Epson scanner:
> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VG4AY0/ref=oss_T15_product
>
> It looks pretty good on the description but we'll see how it works.
>
> I think I got ya beat on the 25 year thing. I've just begun a lifetime
> project, so it seems. Well...it's gonna take a while. The 2 attachments
> are scans (done with the old HP scanner) of albumen prints done in 1899.
> They were in a photo album that I believe to be mainly comprised of my
> maternal grandparents' honeymoon in Florida after being married in Indana in
> 1913. The older prints are a bonus, I guess.
>
> The first one (depending on the way the mail servers scramble 'em) is a
> very badly faded and damaged shot of the first horse-drawn wheat binder in
> the Converse, IN area. I don't know anything more about it except that
> Converse is in the area where my grandmother was raised.
>
> The other one is a mug shot of (presumably) students and teachers at what
> was then called a "normal school" or a school for teachers...sorta like a
> "department of education" at the UofU...only a lot different. :)
>
> So lemme see how the Epson scanner works in comparison to the HP. Should
> be a lot better. We can go from there, k?
>
> RtR
>
>
>
> At 05:50 PM 11/29/2009, you wrote:
>
> I have some 25 year old black and white photos that I'd like to scan, I'm
> looking for a high quality scanner. Does any rat in the pack have one?
>
> The Great Zamboni
>
> --
> Michael Wells
> MCWells Photography
> mcwellsphoto@xxxxxxxxx
> 801-850-7279
>
>
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