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Letters, certificates & personal papers
Digitise handwritten letters, birth and marriage certificates, family correspondence, legal papers, service records, receipts and other documents that help tell your family’s story.
Personal archives · Family history · Digital preservation
Personal & Family Document Scanning
Protect the letters, diaries, certificates, family papers and photographs that tell your family’s story. We carefully digitise personal collections so they can be preserved, searched, shared and enjoyed by future generations.
Careful handling. Professional digitisation. A lasting digital family archive.
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Keep family stories safe for the next generation
Family documents are often irreplaceable. A handwritten letter, a grandparent’s diary, a birth certificate, military papers or an old family business ledger can hold memories and details that are impossible to recreate if the original is lost or damaged. Paper can fade, become brittle, suffer water damage or simply become difficult to organise and access.
Creating high-quality digital copies helps reduce the need to handle delicate originals and makes it easier to organise records, share them with relatives and support family-history research. Digital files are not a substitute for caring for the originals, but they provide another useful way to protect and access their information.
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Diaries, journals & notebooks
Preserve personal diaries, travel journals, school books, memoirs and family notebooks. We can discuss suitable non-destructive methods for bound or fragile items.
Scrapbooks, albums & family collections
Bring related material together as a digital collection, including scrapbook pages, newspaper cuttings, loose documents, photograph albums and mixed family archives.
A careful, considered process
Respect for originals, clarity in every digital copy
Not every family archive is the same. Some collections contain robust loose papers; others include fragile pages, old bindings, annotations, folds or faded handwriting. We can discuss the condition and format of your material before recommending an appropriate scanning approach.
- Non-destructive handling: suitable methods for bound volumes and delicate papers, depending on their condition and format.
- High-quality master files: TIFF outputs at 600dpi are available for suitable document projects, supporting detailed preservation and future reuse.
- Convenient access copies: PDF, searchable PDF/OCR and JPEG options can make everyday viewing, sharing and retrieval easier.
- Organised delivery: agree file formats and delivery arrangements with our team so the digital collection suits how your family intends to use it.
The best resolution and output format depend on the material, condition, intended use and project requirements. We will discuss these with you before work begins.
From a few pages to a family archive
What can we digitise?
We support personal and family collections of different sizes, from a small group of treasured papers to a substantial archive gathered over many generations.
- Family letters and correspondence
- Birth, marriage and other family-history certificates
- Diaries, journals and memoirs
- Military records, service papers and historical documents
- Family business records, ledgers and account books
- Newspaper cuttings, scrapbooks and photograph albums
- School records, certificates, maps and plans
- Fragile papers, manuscripts and bound volumes, subject to assessment
We can also help with other family media, including photographs, slides, negatives, cine film, audio tapes and video tapes, helping you bring more of your family archive into digital form.
Preserve now, plan for the future
Digital preservation is more than scanning
Once your collection is digitised, keep at least two copies in separate places, use clear file names and folders, and periodically check that files can still be opened. For especially important family records, maintain a simple inventory and include dates or descriptions where known. These straightforward habits help make your digital archive more useful over time.
We can supply preservation-oriented files alongside convenient access copies, depending on the project. Tell us whether your priority is family sharing, reading faded text, printing, research or creating a long-term digital record, and we can help you choose suitable outputs.