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Our center has a wide variety of equipment geared toward making it easy for your to scan and digitize your family heirlooms and media. We have the following equipment available use:

• High Speed Photo Scanners: Scans up to 500 photos in 10 minutes or less. Scans items up to 8.5 inches wide. 
• Flatbed Scanner: Our flatbed scanner can scan your odd sized images and documents. Including small photos that won't feed through the high speed scanner, and thick pages that are too large to go through the high speed scanner.
• Slide & Negative Scanner & Light Table: We can scan a variety of different sizes of slides, films, and negatives in our slide scanner.
• Reel to Reel 8 mm converter: Come use our new reel to reel converter to turn your 8mm films into digital files that can be shared and preserved.
• VHS Digitizer: With this digitizer you can turn your old home movies into a digital file that can be viewed and shared more easily. (Including: Hi-8, Digital 8, Mini DV PLUS)
• Cassette Tape Digitizers: This equipment will allow you to take old cassette tapes with your family recordings on them and turn them into a digital file that can be shared and copied digitally.
• Book Scanner: Our book scanner can be used to digitize any bound items that you may have including scrapbooks, journals, calendars, and more. . . . You can save the files as individual jpg's or as a complete PDF, or both.
• ShotBox: This light box is designed to allow you to digitize all of your heirlooms that can't be replicated, but can at least be preserved and shared in a quality image. You can select from various backdrops and backgrounds, including green screen if you'd like to delete the background of the image later.  The box is 14 1/4" wide, 15" deep, and 15" tall, so any heirloom that will fit inside can be imaged. 

Do you have any items that need to be digitized? Be sure to schedule an appointment above by clicking on the button "Schedule Now"

After you schedule your appointment, a few things to know:

1. Verify that you have your items in a protective case to transport to the Family History Center and organized in the way you'd like to work through your files.

2. Bring a USB or thumb drive to transfer your files onto upon completing digitization. (This is where the digital files will be copied for you to take them home.

3. Dust off items before using any of the equipment for digitizing your items.

4. Be sure that you work with a consultant who will assist you with using the various scanning equipment.

5. Upon completing be sure to copy the digital files onto your USB/thumb drive. 

If you need help along the way, always ask a consultant, we're always happy to help!

At our center you will have access to Premium Subscription Websites using the Family History Center Portal, which means you'll have premium access to many of the top paid family history research sites to further your genealogy research. You'll also have access to collections that have limited access on the FamilySearch site, in the center all of that access is granted.  You will also have access to consultants who can help you with your individual research questions.  

So if you can't access it at home, come here, you'll be surprised how much more you'll discover!

Would you like to bring a group to the Family History Center? We would love to have you.  We have a research room with 16 computers that can be used by individuals or in pairs. There is also space for some patrons to bring their laptops so we can fit a larger group if needed. We offer assistance in coordinating your class plans and helping to ensure you have plenty of consultants to meet your needs.  

In order to schedule your group activity, do the following:

1. Be sure to schedule your group using the button above "Schedule Now".

2. The Shift Leader for the night you are scheduled will reach out, Coordinate with the shift leader to plan the group activity.

3. Ensure that group members have all created and have their login credentials for their free FamilySearch account.