From: rail@greywall.demon.co.uk   
      
   On 13/05/2020 17:24, knuttle wrote:   
   > On 5/13/2020 11:13 AM, Geoff Pearson wrote:   
   >> I have a pile of documents, some on very frail paper, from my father's   
   >> youth and early war time adult years 1934-1955.  My mother had them in   
   >> an envelope.  What is the best way to store these so I can read them   
   >> without risk (and on both sides)?  Poly-pockets don't seem quite right?   
   >>   
   >> Geoff   
   > I don't know a good way to store the documents, but I am sure there will   
   > be other who know.   
   >   
   > HOWEVER,  I have a similar situation with documents that were created as   
   > between 1817 and 1917,  I carefully scanned them all and saved them as   
   > PDF files to my computer.   I scan them in color on a flatbed scanner.   
   > The color image more accurately represents the document as the subtle   
   > differences on the paper surface can be more easily seen.   
   >   
   > I can read them as often as I like with out worrying that I will damage   
   > one.  I can easily share them with cousins whose ancestors are in the   
   > document, by just sending the PDF.   
   >   
      
   Check out archive quality storage, eg Arrow. I use them for my   
   photographic slide collection but they do versions for documents as well.   
      
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