From: MB@nospam.net   
      
   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.   
      
      
      
   I think that is the first thing to do, scan at as high a resolution as   
   you and then save in uncompressed files, usually TIFs.  You can end up   
   with very large files but that is not problem nowadays when storage is   
   cheap.   
      
   Keep several copies in different locations.   
      
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