T Scanning Grandma's Scrapbooks

It's awesome you have the opportunity to scan Grandma's scrap book.
I always loved going through my grandmothers when I was little and even as a teen. She always told me she would leave it for me one day when she was gone.
Sadly, Grandma passed a few years back. As my cousin and I were going through her things I came across that beloved book. We sat down, opened it, only to find that she had taken EVERYthing out of it and only left blank pages smudged of glue and tape.
Grandma had Alzheimers, and I guess for the last year she had taken ALL photos from all albums, folded them into tiny pieces and then wrapped them in papertowels. We found many of the ruins in different places in her house. She hid them in the backs of all drawers from bathroom to kitchen.
I asked Grandpa if he knew she was doing this and he said he had noticed pictures in the washer and dryer and in her pockets before, but it didnt dawn on him that during her daily wanderings through the house that she was destroying all the photos. It was so sad.
Anyway, even if you do hafta spend the 100 bucks to get the stuff scanned, you will be happy you did it and so will everyone else in the family.
Just my 2 cents ;)

I am sorry for your loss.

We just lost Dad in February and had a similar situation with numerous photo albums, being that they are irreplaceable treasures we just paid Kinko's to do it and received extraordinary service and results in a few days. Well worth the expense, we couldn't have done nearly as good a job or as efficiently.

I would try a library or bank.

In our town our library charges $0.25 per page using a copy machine. You can get them in color or black and white.

Our bank charges $0.10 a page. Also choice of color or black and white.

We live in a small town... but they let me bring in the photo paper to use. Still charged the same but atleast the photos were on photo paper.

Not sure how you could put them on to Cd's after but you would have the pages any way to share.

You might want to check Groupon for deals in your area. A few weeks ago I got a Groupon for $30 for $100 worth of scanning at a local multimedia production company. I am doing the same kind of project--scanning all my parents' pictures so I can give each of my siblings a copy--they will be there Christmas presents this year.

The only thing I can think of is to try to take photos of the pages, if you have a decent camera. This has worked for me in the past when my scanner was too small. You can even color correct if necessary.

How nice of you to share the photos with the whole family and take the time to do that for everyone.

Sorry for your family's loss, and so thankful you're protecting wonderful memories!

There are few places with a 12 x 12 scanner. I just reproduced a vintage 12 x 12 scrapbook that was 60 years old.

(disclaimer: I am an independent Creative Memories consultant). I ended up removing the pages from the book and scanning in the best photos. I followed the original scrapbook maker's order and feeling, although I did not use every single photo (there were some pages of, for example, their new home, and there were dozens of photos of the home. Instead of transferring every photo of the same house, I made sure to faithfully what the pages showed: the new house on moving day, the house in spring with flowers, the house after a snow storm, etc. I replaced all the pages when I was done. An added benefit to scanning the photos using the Creative Memories software was that I could digitally fix photos that were ripped and faded or discolored or too small.

Using Creative Memories Story Book Creator, I reduced the book from 12 x 12 and about 5 inches thick to a reasonable, affordable printed, digital book that everyone could order and enjoy.

Feel free to send me a message if you have any questions.