Scanning

[craftytam]

I have been working on scanning our old negatives, some photos, papers, etc. It's a HUGE project!

Right now I'm working on papers I ended up with from my grandparents. My grandpa was a high school physics/geometry teach for 40 years. He kept his class seating charts from his last 25 years teaching at Downey High School in CA.

I think it's hilarious that he kept these! Even though I don't feel that they are significant enough to our family history to scan or keep, I'm having a hard time getting rid of them. :blink:

Maybe I'll just spread them a bit and take a photo and scrap that?

Thoughts? Would you scan them? Would you keep them?

 

[LynnZant]

I'm a keeper. Although, instead of scanning, I would probably just take a pic and be done with it. Have fun with your project!

 

[craftytam]

I'm a keeper. Although, instead of scanning, I would probably just take a pic and be done with it. Have fun with your project!

Thanks, Lynn! I have been keeping photos/negatives & "important" documents/papers. I agree with you on this particular thing... no reason to keep it.

 

[HavaDrPepper]

My mom was a teacher for 33 years.

In 2018 when I cleaned out the basement of the house they turned over to me in the 1990's, I found a box with her gradebooks from every year she taught except one. That one was the year that I was in her class (7th grade math). She only kept the sheets that she recorded the 9 week grades on to turn in for the grade card preparation.

My next door neighbors both had her for a teacher. The husband actually teaches 7th grade math. I found their year and let them look at it. The wife had to tease him because she actually got better grades than he did! I let them keep it but don't know if they still have it. As for the rest of them, I got rid of them. No photos of them either.

Mom had prepared a lot of handouts for her classes. I didn't keep any of that stuff. My neighbor has told me that the way she taught is no longer the way he has to teach math because of common core. So they would be useless.

I did find a few things that I thought were interesting and took photos since they were basically falling apart.

Tucked away in a really old suitcase on the top shelf were letters my mom had written to my dad while she was on vacation with her family a couple of months before their wedding. I kept those. I had seen that suitcase up there all these years but never looked in it. When Dad moved to NC, he didn't take it with him... turns out it was mainly stuff from his days in the Navy. He probably forgot about what all was in it. Would have loved to have talked to him about it but he had passed away a couple years earlier. It had a lot of photos but none of him. I had already scrapped a lot of his Navy photos so he had at least sorted through them. I didn't know any of the people so I got rid of them.

 

[tjscraps]

If the school still exists, consider giving them to the school for their archives?

 

[craftytam]

My mom was a teacher for 33 years.

In 2018 when I cleaned out the basement of the house they turned over to me in the 1990's, I found a box with her gradebooks from every year she taught except one. That one was the year that I was in her class (7th grade math). She only kept the sheets that she recorded the 9 week grades on to turn in for the grade card preparation.

My next door neighbors both had her for a teacher. The husband actually teaches 7th grade math. I found their year and let them look at it. The wife had to tease him because she actually got better grades than he did! I let them keep it but don't know if they still have it. As for the rest of them, I got rid of them. No photos of them either.

Mom had prepared a lot of handouts for her classes. I didn't keep any of that stuff. My neighbor has told me that the way she taught is no longer the way he has to teach math because of common core. So they would be useless.

I did find a few things that I thought were interesting and took photos since they were basically falling apart.

Tucked away in a really old suitcase on the top shelf were letters my mom had written to my dad while she was on vacation with her family a couple of months before their wedding. I kept those. I had seen that suitcase up there all these years but never looked in it. When Dad moved to NC, he didn't take it with him... turns out it was mainly stuff from his days in the Navy. He probably forgot about what all was in it. Would have loved to have talked to him about it but he had passed away a couple years earlier. It had a lot of photos but none of him. I had already scrapped a lot of his Navy photos so he had at least sorted through them. I didn't know any of the people so I got rid of them.

I'm very thankful that my grandpa didn't hold on to his teaching supplies. That would have been a nightmare to weed through! He did keep a few books, which we have kept.

How wonderful to have your parents old letters. That's a beautiful snapshot into their lives. I just finished scanning several years worth of family letters, but haven't had a chance to read them yet.

If the school still exists, consider giving them to the school for their archives?

That's an interesting idea! The school definitely still exists. I may contact them Thanks!