Hi All,

I want to share little story before I ask the question.

My family's ancestral home is in Kelantan. Ancestral Home means that's where the altars for remembering & paying respects to elders in the family that has passed on is kept. A few times a year all relative will gather at my house to pay respect, etc, including Chinese New Year. This also means, in the past, back when my grandparents were living there, every relatives & friends of the family will make sure to send some copies of the photos of important events in their life. Birthday celebrations, weddings, funerals, even holidays & graduations photos. My ancestral home is the central repository of all all these photos.

Few years back, you all know of the big flood of Kelantan, right ? My house which I usually would LOL-ed if some unknowing, concerned friend ask if my house flooded, actually was submerged in the flood up to my waist height while standing in the house. 80% of furniture has to be thrown. Most of the photos also was under the flood water then. The ones that survives are those that I secretly took back with me the last time I went back before the flood. I was planning to surprise my mom with the scanned photos of her siblings (most gone by now thanks to old age) & friends & other relatives, not to mention my own siblings & our small family's old photos. My secret plan was the reason the box of photos survived.

I am looking for a good scanner for scanning those old photos that I managed to save. I have a HP MFP at home & in the office. I will use those for scanning Facebook & small photo print version of the photos. But after I'm done with that, I would like to do it again using a high quality scanner at the "archiving" level quality.

I will be honest with you - I know nothing about photography and all these digitizing photograph stuffs aside from what I picked up here & there reading online articles & talking to my colleagues back when I work as IT guy at publishing company. So any advice you can share is much appreciated.

Parking to find out more.

We'll be parking for a long time, i think.

How to preserve your family memories letters and trinkets

This article form the New York Times I think would be helpful for you.
It also includes a few other websites that help / guide other on their efforts to preserve family memories.

I wish you all the best OP! Update here form time to time it would be great to here of your experience.

Cheers

thanks LoneWolf X. will check it out & update time as I go.