To me one of the most important things before starting a large project such as this is to make sure you have really good scanning equipment. We have an HP Photosmart 6520 printer with scanner/copier/fax. You can buy it on Amazon for around $100. It did an awesome job of scanning the photos. You'll need to use the desktop software that comes with it instead of pushing the scan button on the printer itself. That way you can remove old borders from the photos and you can enhance the photo as you crop it. Very easy to use. We used our guest room as the staging area. Layed out photos on the bed and put them in the order we wanted to scan them. We kept only one of each shot (the best one) and threw away the rest. We used the computer to store them initially but once they were finished we made several copies of the entire set onto several thumb drives. Put one in the safe and gave one to our son. Kept one to play the photos on our big TV. You will be so glad you did it.
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