Dear Sisters did any of you remember Joel’s birthday this year? I thought his birthday was later this month and I just realized it was November 6th. I will send him a belated card and gift and if any of you forgot too please send him a card at least.
Here is his address and phone number:
Joel Sheller
680 N. W. 119th Ave
Sunrise, FL 33323
954-741-3378
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1900 Grandpa Emery is 5 years old. Both of his Grandmothers are living with the family.
1910 page1
1910 page 2
1920 Grandpa isn’t listed.
1930 Grandpa, Grandma and our young Mother
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Russell J. Emery WW1 Registration.
Russell J. Emery WW2 Registration.
I don’t think the image is from one of the latest scans I have done. This is just to show you the damage on his face. Click on the image to see a 1000 dpi wide picture.
I want to add a bit about my scanning of the photo. I used my older but better Epson 2450 scanner to scan a few image sizes of Grandpa’s picture. I had to use it in Windows XP though because Epson has no support for any 64 bit system. I found out that to use it in Windows 7 64bit I would have to buy Vuescan software for $39.00 and scan only through that without the many options I have with Epson Twain.
This scanner lets me scan up to 2400 dpi without interpolation. Modern good scanners will scan 4800, and up to 6400. These higher dpi scans are for enlarging film and photos.
I scanned at 1200 48bit, 1600 48 bit and 2400 48 bit.
The way I scanned the picture was to select only the image, being very careful not to get any of the outside color from the border in the scan. The result was a rich image with almost perfect levels because my scanner wasn’t using the useless information in the border area.
I did perform auto levels in Photoshop just to see what would happen. I found that there was no improvement in the images and auto levels only damaged it.
What I’ve learned is to scan only the image, not the border and to scan in 48 bit.
Click on the picture to see the awesome quality of the 2400 48bit untouched scan.
Dear Sisters I found that an 18 x 24 frame with a mat opening of 13.5 wide and 19.5 height would work with a larger image I can print on 17 x 22 paper. At least I can buy precut mats for an 18 x 24 inch frame with those dimensions. Whether those sized frames normaly come with a mat with that opening, I don’t know but I will check it out tomorrow in an arts and crafts store. There is an online store that I can buy mats for 3.99 each in lots of 10 plus shipping. I figure I will be making 10 pictures for 10 grandchildren. This mat opening will only affect the height about 1.25 inches. Shown in the pictures below is the full size on the left and evenly cut top and bottom on the right to show what the mat opening would look like.
Let me know if this is acceptable. The full size picture will be sent to you and you will be able to move the picture up and down if you want more foot room or head room.
All in all the larger size picture will be more pleasing than the one I was planning to send. If the picture on the right size is acceptable then I will do it without continuing struggling cutting mats and hurting my fingers.
You can click on each image to show a larger picture in a new window. These pictures have not been fixed.
I installed a new feature to this site a couple of weeks ago and have been using it to test it’s usefulness. If you have noticed “Subscribe to Posts” at the top of the site (bottom of the header) and/or on the sidebar, that is the link to the Page which controls the feature.
You need to click that link and enter the e-mail address that you wish to use to get the subscription email notices at. It does NOT have to be the email address that you are registered here as a user with. It can be any email address you have access to.
Follow the direction for subscribing. Basically it will give you options of which categories to choose … automatically everything is selected and that is what you’ll want to stay with.
I don’t remember the total in-and-out for how it worked exactly, just know that I followed the directions and then when anyone posts a new Post I get an email with an excerpt of the post.
That is the alert that someone has posted here, and you can click a link in the email to get to the site. You can also manage your “subscription” by clicking links in any email you receive from the Subscription function here. You can’t just click on a link on this site, use the actual emails to manage turning it off, or changing your email address.
If you have trouble with it, let me know.
–Maisy
Happy birthday, dear sister!
Click here to view the gallery of photos of the hotel we stayed at in Lilloet, BC. http://www.reynoldshotel.com/gallery.html
this photo was taken on highway 23 in Canada.