I usually don't like to think about Christmas during the summer, much preferring the warm weather to the snow, but this gift takes some work. If you decided you want to do something similar, I want to make sure I give you some time to get it together by this Christmas. Although it takes some time to get it together, I promise it's more rewarding than you could imagine learning more about your family's history, and especially when you see your grandparent's faces light up with joy.
For Christmas this year, I finished converting all of my grandparents old slides (almost 400!) to digitals and played them on a slideshow for my family at Christmas. It made Christmas extra sweet to hear my grandparents and mom reminisce on old times, and to hear my Grandpa say over and over that it reminded him what a blessed life they have had. I still remember my grandma exclaiming, "That's my daddy!" at the start of a slide was one of the cutest things I've witnessed. Then with the next picture followed, she explained that it was probably one of the only pictures with both her dad and her brother in it. After Christmas, I finished a photo book of the slides, taking into account which photos I had learned from them were extra special.
I want to encourage everyone to try to do something like this for your grandparents or parents because it really meant a lot to them, and was equally special for me to learn more of my family’s memories. For converting the slides, my dad got me a converter off of amazon a few years back “The Wolverine F2D Film to Digital converter” (He did this so we could convert his family’s old negatives… I’ll have to do a post on those old photos sometime because there was a really interesting story in that) I was also made aware of another possible way to convert- I got an ad for a phone app that can convert your slides just last week. It did have a small monthly fee, so I didn’t test it out, but if a lot of people were interested I totally would test it for you guys. I hope this inspires you! Ask your parents and grandparents if they have any old slides or photographs that you can convert or scan in for them. I would love to hear about it!
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