[dugarner]

Merrilee,

We haven't gotten around to our camcorder to DVD transfers yet. But just8mm is pretty reasonable: 50 feet transferred to DVD is $7.50, 200 feet is $24.00, and so on.

My reservation about sending things out of the country is not that someone else is doing it, I'd just be nervous about it being lost in transit. I have had valuable items lost in the mail, and living where we live, where about 30% of the time mail just isn't delivered, or it's delivered opened, or severely damaged, I'd be nervous.

Accidents happen everywhere, I guess! And those types of accidents show why it's so important to have redundant, off-site backups---the originals and the scanned copies shouldn't really be stored in the same physical location, for that very reason.

I just take some chunks of work to do each summer and figure out what to do with it. I'm the only one in my family interested in preserving any of this for future generations, and since the responsibility is on my shoulders, I can take my time! Everyone enjoys it when it's done, but no one misses it before then.