Portable Storage for Scanning and Sharing

Before you begin scanning and sharing your Family History photographs and documents you may need to get a thumb drive.  The prices have gone way down and so I recommend you get at least a 16 GB thumb drive for your sharing needs. It will hold hundreds and even thousands of files, according to your scanning size.  I also recommend you set your scanner to no less than 300 dpi and 400 is even better.  If you are scanning very small pictures about 1 inch square you should scan it at 1200 dpi.  Here is a thumb drive I bought at Best Buy last week for less than $7.  This is a good time of the year to get good deals.

Be sure to bring your thumb drive to our workshops.  It is also a good idea to back up your Family History file as a GED com file on your thumb drive.