Scanning Photos, Documents, and Slides

• Gently clean your photos, front and back, removing all dust and debris. Learn how to safely clean photos here.
• Remove all the sticky residue from old photo albums. Learn how to safely remove sticky residue here
• Sort and organize your photos.
• Make sure the photos face the same direction.
• Group the photos by size.
• Bring a flash drive at least 32 GB.

By preparing your photos you will maximize your time and preserve more family memories during your digitizing session.

• Gently remove dust and debris from your documents.
• Remove paper clips, staples, tape and other fasteners.
• Straighten your documents.
• Organize and group them by size. Documents of the same size can be scanned, front and back, in a rapid feed scanner.
• Fragile documents are best scanned on a flatbed scanner.

By organizing and preparing your documents you will maximize your time and preserve more family memories during your digitizing session.

Memory Lane can accommodate slide scanning on a flatbed scanner, slide snap or with a Kodak slide carrousel.

• Clean the slides of all dust and debris. Learn more about cleaning slides and negatives here.
• Rotate all slides so the image is in the landscape orientation.
• Damaged or fragile slides can be captured using a flatbed scanner.
• Thick plastic bordered slides can be best captured using a flatbed scanner, not in a carrousel.
• Our equipment will accommodate most Kodak slide carrousels.
• Bring a flash drive at least 32 GB.

By preparing your slides you will maximize your time and preserve more family memories during your digitizing session.

The FamilySearch Library has book scanners to accommodate journals, scrapbooks, family histories, photo albums and more. These specialty book scanners do not require a reservation and are located on the 3rd floor and the B2 floor. Learn more about our book scanners here.

• Clean, dust and organize your materials.
• Bring a flash drive at least 32 GB.
• Please do not digitize materials under copyright.

By preparing your materials you will maximize your time and preserve more family memories during your digitizing session.

Memory Lane equipment includes flatbed scanners for digitizing strip film negatives. Black and white roll negatives can be digitized on a ScanPro 3000 Ultra microfilm scanner located on the 2nd floor near Memory Lane. Learn more about scanning negatives here.

• Gently dust and wipe clean your negatives. Learn more about cleaning negatives here.
• Sort negatives with the shinny side visible.
• Bring a flash drive at least 32 GB.

By preparing your negatives you will maximize your time and preserve more family memories during your digitizing session.