Family History
Have your film digitized for your Family History Project
Your family history project won't be complete until you can include all of those 35mm slides, negatives, and photos that are stuffed away in your closet.
Family History is quickly becoming a very popular hobby for family centered folks but the hours required to scan photographic slides and negatives is simply overwhelming. We offer a quick and affordable means of having all of your film converted to digital images on CD or DVD so that they can be included in your family history projects.
Each year we help thousands of families capture their memories by digitizing
their film and slide collections to CD or DVD. Being able to easily access
and organize your photos on your computer is a great advantage that our
generation can now enjoy. We can even watch our old 35mm slides on our TV
once they have been scanned. It just doesn't get much easier than that. We
no longer need to drag out the screen and projector to take a trip down memory
lane. And we no longer need to put up with burned out projector bulbs and
constantly jamming slides.
We all know that we would like to capture our family's history for our children
and their children and generations to come. But getting started on
such an onerous task can seem overwhelming at times. Where do I
start? What should I say? What will be of interest to
future generations?
It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words -- and when it comes
to writing your family history, every word helps. It's amazing how much a photo
will help you tell your story of your family's history. Once you have your
photos digitized onto disc, you can organize them chronologically and by family
tree branch. One of the simplest ways to write your history is to use a word
processor like MS Word and embed the digital images into the document. With the
photo on the screen, you will be amazed at how much easier it is start writing
about events that took place many years ago. A photo of Grandpa's old farmhouse
where you spent several summer vacations, a 1940's era automobile, or the dress
styles of the 60's will elicit many stories from your memory that will find
their way to the document on the screen.
What Are Some Of The Things I Can Do With My Scanned Images?
One of the great things about having your photo library captured to a digital format is that you have the freedom to do anything you want with the images.
Capture and archive your family heirloom with photos
Make copies of the CD-ROM’s and give them to everyone at your next family reunion.
Create VCR (VHS) tapes of your digitized photo library so that your computer challenged parents and grandparents can easily enjoy the slide show without having to drag out the old slide projector and a screen.
Create lasting memorable gifts for Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries, war veteran memorials …
Cost Benefits
Are you in a situation now where your old Kodak, Airequipt or Bell & Howell projector doesn’t work anymore and needs expensive repair? Even replacing the lamps in these old projectors can be extremely expensive – if you can even find a replacement bulb.
Once you have your slides and negatives digitized, the cost of making duplicate CD's is dirt-cheap. This makes it unbelievably affordable to share your family photo collection with every member of your family. It also allows you to keep a backup set of CD's in a bank safe deposit box. Then should a disaster strike your home, you will always have a backup of your irreplaceable photos in a safe place. Try doing that with slides!
Scanned images that are stored on CD can be copied and stored in a safe location like a bank vault. When your images are transferred from your slides and/or negatives and placed on CD, you have much easier access to your images without dragging out the slide projector and screen.
Scanning film gives better results than scanning photos. This is true because the film is the original image and not a second-generation copy. This means that the film contains much greater detail than you can ever extract from printed photos. A major benefit of film is that it offers a much greater contrast range than can be extracted from prints..
Genealogy Resource Links
Of course, photos are only part of the challenge in researching your ancestral history. We have included some links below to several excellent sites dealing with genealogy and family history research.
Family Tree
Searcher - Find Family Trees Easily
Enter your ancestor information just once to search for family trees at
multiple online genealogy databases. The site also includes hints for searching
family history online.
Genealogy:
Advice for Effective Searches
Answer a series of simple questions and get free, customized advice on the
most effective next steps in your genealogy search.
Grave Info.com
New Jersey, New York cemetery information. Featuring ONLINE BURIAL RECORDS for
Hudson County Potters Field Cemetery, Secaucus, NJ and Constable Hook Cemtery,
Bayonne, NJ
All
Genealogy Sites.com
Find genealogy sites, surnames, ancestors in this free genealogy sites directory
Jewish
Genealogy Web Index
Focused Web Directory on Jewish genealogy
GenHelp.org
This site was created by five experienced and devoted genealogists dedicated to
helping all genealogists, from novice to advanced, improve their research
skills. Offering free articles and Genealogy Courses to assist you.
Family
Search
Search for ancestors, share information and learn about the world's largest
Family History Library.
Roots
Web
The oldest and largest FREE Genealogy Site.
Cyndi's
List
More than 85,500 links that are categorized and cross-referenced in over
140 categories with another 8,850+ new links in the works.
My
Trees
Kindred Konnections welcomes you to the most advanced genealogical
research site in the world. MyTrees.com houses the World's Largest
Pedigree-Linked Database allowing you to find family names fast.
Genealogy.com
One of the largest and best Genealogy sites on the Web
About.com's
Genealogy Mining
A source for links and other information for the genealogy enthusiast.
Family
Tree Maker
One of the best software packages for keeping up with your family tree.
Plus, lots of other information for genealogical research.
Ancestry.com
By dedicating itself to connecting and strengthening families online,
MyFamily.com, Inc.'s mission is to build the largest and most active online
community in the world for families. Since its initial web debut, MyFamily.com,
Inc., and its three Internet properties, Ancestry.com,
MyFamily.com and FamilyHistory.com,
have rapidly become the leading online services for families.
The
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Created in 1984 as a public-private partnership and serves as the
national clearinghouse for information on missing children and the prevention of
child victimization.
Prince
Edward Island Register
The "Island Register" is your "Number 1" on-line
source for P.E.I. Genealogy, with over 496 P.E.I. lineages, and 1600+ documents
online. The Register's finest assets, are its users! We wish to thank our
provider, Island Services Network, and all that use this page.
Northeastern
Pennsylvania Photo Collection
This is a collection of photos, many of which have been sent to us by
our visitors, of the past of Northeastern Pennsylvania and surrounding areas.
Our goal is to make this the largest collection of photos showing life as it was
for our ancestors.
Illinois
State Archives Databases
A great resource including Land Tract Sales, Servitude and Emancipation
Records, War of 1812 Veterans, Black Hawk War Veterans, and other war records,
statewide marriage index, birth certificates, and tons more!
RetouchPRO
A resource for anyone, professional or hobbyist, who is interested in
photo restoration, retouching, and manipulation. Although most of their info is
aimed at digital work, this is by no means limited to computer efforts. It is a
place to learn, to teach, to share, to connect, and generally to talk to others
with the same interests.
Cemeteries
Site
Everything you ever wanted to know about cemeteries is here. Very
complete listing of US cemeteries that have been cataloged as well as online
cemetery catalogs from around the world.
Genealogy
Searching Center
Power House for Genealogy Links, FREE online surname databases in your
mail box every day. Keep up to date with NEW online research tools as they
become available.
Frontier
Net
This is a very interesting web site you will have to try. You will have to enter
your birth date, and you will then see two lists. The first list compares your
age with famous people. The second list tells your age when important events
occurred.
Internet
Archive
This is a great site. The Internet Archive web site allows you to surf through
pages stored in the archive. Bookmark this site.
Better
Homes and Gardens
Better Homes and Gardens takes a glimpse, with the help of three families, into
what life was like for our ancestors. The American Family can not only be found
on the web site but also in the magazine. You can read stories, see a slide show
and take a poll.
Gen-Newbie
This is a great web site for those of you who are new to computers or genealogy.
We would like to thank Terry Beck, Elaine Maddox, Jack Webster and Rootsweb.com
for offering this great site.
Surname
Study
This is a fun genealogy website. It allows you to enter a surname during any
time period, and the site will then display a map of the United States
indicating how frequently you will find someone with that surname in each state.
Oh, what fun!
Census
Article
Please take the time to read this very interesting article. It is about the
census in England. What a wonderful success it has become!
Obituary
Central
This is a fascinating web site. Obituary Central wants to provide you with
obituaries. They have many links to help you find information in regards to
obituaries, cemetery inscriptions and so much more. Bookmark Obituary Central.
PhotoZone
and Historical Forms
This is the web site for the U.S. Census Bureau-Photozone and Historical Forms.
This is a very interesting site since they allow you to check out the forms that
were used during certain time periods. There is quite an extensive collection.
Ancestor
Detective
This is a web site worth your viewing. The Ancestor Detective is a great
genealogical watchdog web site. It provides links to many sites that provide
copyright information, misrepresentation issues, genealogy sites of which to be
leery and a few to completely avoid altogether.
Genealogy
Search
This is quite an informative and interesting web site. It will provide you with
an abundant amount of information in regards to surnames and the census.
Island
Register
For those searching anything Canadian, this is the site to explore.
JennGen
A lot of information and links for those interested in New England, Ireland,
Quebec and France.
Dead Fred
Dead Fred's Genealogy Photo Archive, a free, fun photo genealogy research
web site devoted to helping you visualize your heritage!
U.S. Surgeon General's Family
History Initiative http://www.hhs.gov/familyhistory/
Health care professionals have known for a long time that common diseases -
heart disease, cancer, and diabetes - and even rare diseases - like hemophilia,
cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell anemia - can run in families. If one generation
of a family has high blood pressure, it is not unusual for the next generation
to have similarly high blood pressure.
Tracing the illnesses suffered by your parents, grandparents, and other blood
relatives can help your doctor predict the disorders to which you may be at risk
and take action to keep you and your family healthy.
To help focus attention on the importance of family health history, U.S. Surgeon
General Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., in cooperation with other agencies
within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has launched a
national public health campaign, called the U.S. Surgeon General's Family
History Initiative, to encourage all American families to learn more about their
family health history.
In addition to the Office of the Surgeon General, other HHS agencies involved in
this project include the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA).
I’m a scrapbook junkie and I thought that I had pretty much collected all of our photos into my various scrapbooks. Then one day my daughter asked me why we didn’t have any photos of her grandparents when they were young. I then realized that I had left out a huge chunk of our family history. But my dilemma was all of those old photos were in those round plastic things in little cardboard things. I didn’t know what to do until my best friend told me about you all out in Utah. I am so glad that I found you. You guys are the greatest and now I have two or three hundred photos that I can add to my scrapbooks. Thanks again for all you help.
Mary Beth T.
Houston, Texas Save Those Memories:
Turn your photo clutter into a digital archive of lasting memories.
If shoe boxes crammed with forgotten images clutter your basement, we may be the answer to your spring cleaning blues.
We can digitize all of your photographs, slides, and negatives.
Remember baby's cake-smudged smile at age one?
Or the huge sand castle you built while vacationing in Florida?
What about the 1968 Halloween party where you dressed up like Elvis?
With your photos digitized, a trip down memory lane only requires a few mouse clicks or your TV remote.
Most people have the good intentions of going through the archiving process but it's so time consuming that they usually give up and their memories are left in the closet to literally fade away. Don't let that happen to you.
ADVISORY
Larsen Digital will never send your film to another country for scanning.
When searching for a reputable company to transfer and preserve your irreplaceable memories make sure that they won't be sending your film to another country to take advantage of cheap labor rates.
Several relatively new film scanning companies have popped up overnight which are sending the film to India, Costa Rica, and other countries to have the work done. This practice explains the "too good to be true" pricing. It's bad enough that they are doing this with their customer's priceless memories, but the fact that they are not even up front with their customers about this practice is disgusting in our opinion.
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The Atlantic Hurricane Season officially begins on June 1st
Save your irreplaceable memories by having them digitized before disaster strikes.
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2010 Tropical Storm Names
Alex, Bonnie, Colin, Danielle, Earl, Fiona, Gaston, Hermine, Igor, Julia, Karl, Lisa, Matthew, Nicole, Otto, Paula, Richard, Shary, Tomas, Virginie, Walter
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted an active to extremely active hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin this year, according to the season outlook issued today.
For the six-month hurricane season, which begins Tuesday, NOAA projects a 70 percent likelihood that 14 to 23 named storms will pop up, including eight to 14 hurricanes. Of those, three to seven could be Category 3 hurricanes or stronger, according to a news release from NOAA.
The outlook ranges are higher than the seasonal average of 11 named storms, six hurricanes and two major hurricanes.
According to NOAA, there are three weather factors at work in the higher-than-average prediction: weaker atmospheric winds, warmer water in the Atlantic Ocean and the syncing of favorable ocean and atmospheric conditions.
NOAA scientists will update the hurricane outlook in early August
Our Superior Equipment
We use the finest film scanners on the market today for professional use --
Nikon Super Coolscan 9000 scanners for perfect film scanning.
Nikon's Super Coolscan 5000 ED slide scanner offers 4,000 dpi true optical resolution, for superior-quality digital images. Furthermore, the Super
Coolscan scanners feature industry-leading scanning speeds that translate into lower costs for our customers. Our scanners have high end components such as:
Nikkor ED lens - The single most important element in the production of high-quality scans is the lens. Nikon has incorporated lenses of the highest quality in each film scanner. ED (Extra-low Dispersion) lens elements are far superior in edge-to-edge sharpness, definition and contrast, as well as color registration, saturation and accuracy.
Low-heat, high-accuracy LED light source - Most scanners use halogen or fluorescent lamps as light sources, but they require time to warm up and the heat they generate can cause damage to film. Our Nikon scanners are the only scanners to employ LEDs as the source of light. LEDs are a stable, precise light source, which require no maintenance or warm-up time and present no risk of your film being damaged.
Digital ICE4 Advanced - Nikon's ED glass and LED lighting help to optimize the effectiveness of Digital ICE4 Advanced components, making Nikon Coolscan scanners and ICE a perfect match.
Nikon color Management System (CMS) - Nikon CMS provides consistently accurate reproduction of image data on monitors and in printouts.
See What Our Clients are Saying !
We are the premier provider of slide and film scanning services, 35mm negative film scanning services, and slide scanning service. We convert negatives to digital photos, digitize old photos, convert 35mm negative to CD’s and DVD’s (DVD Picture Show, Photo DVD, or sometimes referred to as a slideshow video.We can convert your photos into industry standard file formats like JPEG (jpg) and TIFF (tif).
But all of this is just the technical jargon for what we really do. We preserve your priceless family memories on CD or DVD so that your children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren can all benefit and enjoy their pictorial family history. The film in your closet is deteriorating more and more everyday.
Why wait – get your film out of the closet and have it digitized for permanent restoration and preservation. Your film is priceless. Make sure you have a professional scan service like Larsen Digital Service digitally restore and preserve your film. If you have been hunting for a digital photo service – look no further. You have found the best ! Just read our client list and reviews to find out for yourself.
If you are looking for the best service to transfer slides to DVD or transfer slides to CD we have have you covered. If you are looking for a service to convert slides to DVD or convert slides to CD we have have you covered. We are the best service in the world when it comes to transferring slides to DVD or transferring slides to CD. We transfer old slides to a CD and we also transfer old slides to a DVD. Need a DVD from slides, or CD from slides, or even a slide show from slides? We can copy slides to CD, and copy slides to DVD in both JPG (Jpeg) and TIF (tif) file formats. Converting slides to DVD or converting slides to CD is a service that requires that finest equipment, people, integrity, and experience, in order to deliver the highest quality product. Intrusting your irreplaceable memories to just anyone isn't a smart option.
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