[ratpack] Re: Scanner
- From: John Christensen <johncgg@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:25:16 -0600
I guess it's 14th generation for me.
JC
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:24 AM, John Christensen <johncgg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
> ---
> 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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