Digitising the Langley Collection

Fremantle2026 June 6 (Saturday), 8:52AM· FamilyHistoryWA · genealogy · archiving · digitisation · Interesting article in the most recent Western Ancestor (the magazine of FamilyHistoryWA), about a project to get the Langley Collection digitized and stored in the FHWA's Electronic Document Depository. Each file was labelled, and there was so much material. Letters by researchers from decades ago, photos, certificates, death notices, newspaper clippings and more. All well arranged. Finally, I wrote a cover page to the whole project, saying who had compiled the research, permissions, copyright details and other information. John was then given a USB with the scanned files. At this point we had learnt a lot about how to prepare for scanning, the process, and bookmarking, but we had another learning curve when it came to file sizes. Neil has a computer with so much power that he could probably run NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre. John couldn’t open the files! His computer didn’t have the power…