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Document
Digital Restoration
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As in a restoration of an original
painting, restoring original documents will cost you your first born.
Digital scanning and restoration is the only way to go for most of us.
There are many reason why people restore documents. Not just to share with
relatives but to have a copy in tow when we are doing our researching, you won't
want to carry the original around to further degrade it would you? You may
want to restore a document that you plan on publishing in your family
biography. Documents like newspapers are brittle and scanning them is a
way of preserving the document or the very least the information that is in
them.
Samples of:
Mold
Damage
Newspaper
Print
Sample
of document made to look like new.
Genealogy
Tip
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Some documents are attractive enough
to display. By restoring and enlarging them will enable you to read
them. To minimize handling of documents this fragile, make copies. The torn edges are left on purpose to keep and
antique appearance.
Submitted
by Nancy Beer, German Baptism Certificate.
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Newspaper
Print
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This is a good way to preserve
newspaper, you don't have to restore it, just copy it to photo paper.
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Mold Damage
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This passport was cleaned up to be published in a
book. This client liked it looking
like new.
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Area
of passport on previous page zoomed in.
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This
can be left looking aged and remove only the creases.
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Submitted
by Bill and Nadine Ford from the Antelope
Valley Genealogy Society
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Genealogy Tip
If you are having difficulty reading a document
there are two things you can try. If you have the ability to scan an
image, you have the advantage of zooming in and can make out better what's
at hand or you can turn it into a positive to see it in reverse lighting
sometimes helps too to make out the writing.
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