Ogden FamilySearch Center/Scanning

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The Ogden FamilySearch Center Offers Many Scanning Opportunities

We are excited to help you preserve your family documents and pictures. The following tips will help make your experience successful. Make an appointment prior to coming. We appreciate you being on time.

Appointment times are for 1½ hours.
A missionary will greet you in the scanning area and assist you in getting started.
Make your reservation by clicking on the "Green-Reserve Button " button below for the desired piece of equipment."
FamilySearch has designated scanning and digitizing opportunities at our Center in order to preserve personal family histories. While using the scanning equipment, we ask that only family-owned documents, photos, videos, and movies be scanned, digitized or converted. Please do not scan, digitize or copy any material with commercial content or copyrighted material. To review the FamilySearch copyright guidelines Click here link

How Do I Preserve Large Family Books?

The Ogden FamilySearch Center has a CZUR Book Scanner that will allow you to copy large family history books. This is a great way to make digital copies of non-copyrighted books to distribute to your family members without the hassle and cost of making and binding larger volumes. However, to make your family history book available to a wider audience, we want to introduce you to another option:

The Salt Lake City FamilySearch Library will digitally preserve your large books for posterity. These materials become available in FamilySearch's Digital Library.
Once accepted and digitized, others will be able to search for a family name or place and find your ancestors' histories and other writings.

Click on this link for guidelines to donating a book.

Preparing for your visit

Please make an appointment for the appropriate scanning/conversion equipment you wish to use.
We encourage you to be on time. If you are 15 minutes late, it's possible you will have to reschedule another appointment.
If are are unable to come at your scheduled time, please call to cancel so someone else may use the service.
Below are the descriptions, capabilities and suggested preparation for the scanning equipment we offer.
Please bring your own DVD's and/or USB thumb drives. A USB should have 16 GB minimum to copy and save your photos, documents, VHS tapes.

Equipment Descriptions and Reservations - Click on buttons below to reserve equipment.

Scanners for Documents, Photographs and Book Pages

The Batch Scanner and Flatbed Scanner are two options that can accommodate photos and documents up to 14" x 17".

The Batch Scanner feeds and scans up to 25 photos per minute and are saved to your personal USB thumb drive.
Flatbed scanners are best option for documents or photos in plastic covers, aged, or fragile.
Reserving the Batch Scanner and Flatbed Scanner options allows you to use either type of scanner.
If the time you want to reserve is not available from one link, try the other links.
The links are for scheduling purposes only and do not correspond to the specific scanning stations.
When you arrive, you can use whichever station you prefer if it is not already in use by someone else with a reservation.

If you click on a scanner below and the date and time you are looking for is not available, please try another scanner. Reservations are for 1½ hours.

Reserve
Ogden #1 Epson Batch Scanner and 14” x 17" Flatbed
*Limit of three consecutive sessions

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Ogden #2 Epson Batch Scanner and 14” x 17" Flatbed
*Limit of three consecutive sessions

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Ogden #3 Epson Batch Scanner and 14” x 17" Flatbed
*Limit of three consecutive sessions

Lexmark Scanner, Printer and Copier

This copier/Scanner/Printer will scan and convert several documents to pdf.
It will save documents to your USB thumb drive.
You can also print from a USB thumb drive to the printer.
It is able to digitize individual documents to your Memories gallery on FamilySearch.org.
It will print on standard (8 ½”x 11”), legal size (8 ½” x 14”), or tabloid (11"x17") paper.
Please bring your personal USB thumb drive of at least 16 GB or SD Card.

Reservation Not Required

Czur Aura Book Scanner

Book scanner best suited for bound books utilizing "Book Curve Flattening" technology minimizing spine damage.
After scanning, images may be edited, adjusted, and converted to editable text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Images may also be saved as a multi-page regular PDF file or a searchable PDF file.
Images may also be saved in JPG or Word format to your personal USB thumb drive.

Review copyright guidelines above.

Reservation Not Required

Photo Negative Film Scanner

This scanner coverts 35mm, 126, 110 negatives and slide into.jpg digital file format.
It will also capture still-shot images from 8mm film reels.
Includes slide holders and adapters for negatives.

Reservation Not Required

SlideSnap X1

Automatically captures up to 20 film slides per minute.
Each carousel holds up to 80 slides.
It is easy to operate with an interactive control panel.
It is automated and stops at the end of a tray or in the event of a jam.

Due to the real time conversion, each reservation is for 1½ hours.

OUR SLIDESNAP SLIDE SCANNER HAS BEEN SENT OUT FOR SERVICE AND IS NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.
Color slides can still be digitized here using the Scanza device.

Reserve
SlideSnap Slide Digitizer
*Limit of three consecutive sessions

VHS-Video Tape Conversion

This conversion equipment will capture video and store it to your personal 16 GB USB thumb drive. In order to have a successful session, here are some things to consider:

For full-size VHS tapes, rewind the tapes or set at starting point before coming.
The captured video file will be in .mpg or .mp4 format and will be transferred to your personal USB thumb drive. A two-hour video will need about 16GB of USB storage in .mpg and .mp4 formats.
The video tape can be split into smaller subject-based segments during the conversion, resulting in small videos that can be uploaded and easily shared. If needed, a DVD can be created during the conversion.

Due to the real time conversion, each reservation is for 1½ hours. Please plan to complete all of your setup, taping, and wrap-up in that time frame.

Reserve
Video Tape Converter
*Limit of three consecutive sessions

8mm and Super 8 Film to Digital Options

Movie Maker Scanner

Converts 8mm and Super 8 movies up to 9" reels
Digitizes frame by frame for high quality digital output
Scans and saves digital movies into SD/SDHC cards 32GB max.
Converts 8 and Super 8 movies into MPEG-4 digital movie files 1080P/20fps.
Estimated conversion times
- 3-inch reel - 45-60 minutes
- 5-inch reel - 2-3 hours
- 7-inch reel - 4-5 hours
- 9-inch reel - 5-6 hours
- You can copy from the SD/SDHC cards to your personal USB thumb drive.

Full Speed 8mm and super 8 system with a projector and camcorder

Converts 8 and Super 8 movies into MPEG-4 digital movie file and saved to your personal 16 GB thumb drive.
Please check your film. If the film is not in good condition such as dusty, broken, misaligned, taped overlap, bent, spliced, gluey or thick, please fix the film problems before coming.
Maximum reel size is 7"
This conversion is done in real time.

Reserve
8 mm Film Conversion
*Reservation includes both systems
*Limit of three consecutive sessions

8 Mega Pixel HandyCam