Time to Digitize

My husband and I attended the family history and genealogy class at sunday school today. It was great! Brother Ray is an amazing teacher (and I'm sure it helps that he's taught it for a LONG time). The biggest lesson I've learned is of the importance of digitizing.
We have the technology to make things digital, and it's benefits are manyfold:

1. Everyone can have a copy of Mom's scrapbooks, great-grandma's journals, etc.
2. Keeps contents of documents and/or photographs eternal through digital storage.
3. Takes up a TON less space (physical space, that is)
4. Encourages others to participate in the family history efforts because everyone has everything!

So I am going to start another blog for my immediate living family members. Basically for all those who are not labeled as "living" on our four generation sheets. At that blog, which I will make private so ask for an invitation, I will post stuff on our living family history. It will be awesome.

My end of the deal is to make things available to everyone. Your end of the deal is to give things to me to make available to everyone.

My request is for everyone to send me your photos, special documents, etc that you would like digitized. We just learned that here at our local family history center (in the BYU library) they have a high tech super awesome document/photo scanner. It's one that you can put a stack of photos and it takes them and scans them all for you. Talk about awesome. And so for our last year here in Provo, I would like to take advantage of that machine and digitize all of our family history. So send it my way.

I'l post the name of the blog once I get it started!