To live your dreams of digitizing your family history project, you will need to unpack all your negatives, 35mm slides, family scans or the digital photographs that have been stacked up in your attic. Preservation of history, rather addressing it as preservation of family history, is swiftly turning into a very popular pursuit for all the kinfolks and the genetic descenders. But scanning of negatives, photographic slides and transparencies for large volumes for preservation of history is very time consuming and a costly affair. That is, it USED to be a costly affair, until the advent of the modern scanners for slides and negatives.