FOR SUBMITTING PHOTOS By: Don Wright Photographs are an important part of Genealogy. They allow us to see our ancestors as we read their history. It also allows those left behind to see what we looked like when we were full of life. So, it is important that you provide your family with many photos (with names, dates, and locations written on the back of each) I use all photos on the database (as it is unlimited in space), and a few of them on the Web Page. I am limited on space on the Web Page, but I will include the majority of them. To submit your photos, you can mail them in or send them via e-mail. If you mail them in, we will scan the photos, make an electronic file of each, then return each photo. E-Mail is preferred as they are always on file and I don't have to worry about returning them. I scan the photos 4 or 5 at a time, which gives me one large photo of many individual photos at one time. I then pull each photo from the sheet, give them a number and save them individually. I recently received a group of 25 photos from Ken Shipman. They were scanned 4 or 5 photos at a time and I received 5 large photos with an average of five photos on each. Not being able to think of a better word for it, I call them "frames". They way he did it was one of the best way to scan a large group. He typed the names on strips of paper and put them on a page below each photo, then scanned the whole page of photos. This way, I not only have the photos but the names that go with them also. Check the photo pages submitted by Ken and you will see five photo frames, the way he submitted them. I have not finished adding all the Shipman names to the database, so have not pulled and saved the the individual photos.  Please place in the Subject Line: SHIPMAN-PHOTOS 
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