Subj : Re: Copying my family history
To   : JAY EMRIE
From : Alan Zisman
Date : Sun Sep 25 2005 06:54 pm

-=> JAY EMRIE wrote to ALL <=-

 JE> For some time now I have been contemplating somehow copying the book I
 JE> have of my family history. My ancestor came to Newbury, Mass. in
 JE> 1635. This book was published in 1890. It is just shy of 2" thick and
 JE> 6"w x 9"h, some 610 pages plus about 15 preface pages. I would like to
 JE> make CDs of this book for the rest of my family. As far as I know this
 JE> is the only copy still extant. As such it can't really be shared with
 JE> the younger members of my family. Other than a first cousin (about 5
 JE> years my elder) I am the oldest surviving member of the Emrie family.

 JE> I have not been able to open it up and scan the pages - it just will
 JE> not open up enough to lay the pages flat enough to scan with my flat
 JE> bed scanner. The book was rebound sometime in the early 1900s - maybe
 JE> about 1930. The pages are easily torn. Tis a good thing the paper was
 JE> of excellent quality when printed. I would like to make CDs of the
 JE> book, thus being able to share it with my entire family.

 JE> Does anybody have any idea how I might accomplish this?

 Do you have access to a photocopier where the scanning surface is close enough 
to the edge of the machine that you can do one page at a time with the rest of 
the book hanging open at a 90-degree angle? (Can you picture what I'm 
describing)?

 If so, I'd recommend photocopying each page, then scanning the photocopies. 
Then, perhaps save the scans as a series of sequentially-numbered PDF files.
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