When I was back in Dublin a few weeks ago, my dad asked me to have a look at a CD his brother had given him. On it were a whole lot of photos of his family some possibly from as early as the 1920’s.
They were done up in some strange format, I think that whichever company had done the work had locked them into some proprietary software and I couldn’t open them. I made a copy of the CD to take home so I could look at it again and perhaps look for the software from less reputable channels.
Well this afternoon I came across the CD and after a little looking around I found that not only would a nice photo app. that I’ve used for a good while now, IrfnView, open the photos, but it would batch convert them to usable images.
I have 147 surprisingly good quality images of what seem to go right back to my great-grandparents. I think there is a single one of my grandfather as a child with his family. It’s not in good shape at all but that’s my guess. It also seems to include my grandparents wedding day and covers at least 20 years of their kids growing up.
That’s very cool, my dad is going to spend tonight adding names and time frames as best he can. It seems to have kicked my mother into going off and getting some of her old family photos too. It would be very cool if I could get them all together.