ScanMyPhotos.com Sponsors "Great American Photo Scanning Project," Announces Artistry of Genealogy Award Website Winners

ScanMyPhotos.com, Irvine, Calif., is participating in the Photo Preservation Center's "Great American Photo Scanning Project," beginning today. Created by the Photo Preservation Center, an educational division of ScanMyPhotos.com, and sponsored by ScanMyPhotos.com, "The Great American Photo Scanning Project" aims to promote scanning services and inspire people to have their shoeboxes of analog photo snapshots digitally scanned.

Throughout April, ScanMyPhotos.com is providing up to 1,000 free photo scans to members of Flickr, MySpace, Blogger or Facebook, they will get up to 1,000 4-by-6-inch photos scanned to DVD, only paying $19.95 for return shipping and handling.

The Photo Preservation Center features a national network of service providers, as well as links to photo scanning service providers who are current members of PMA, and a local listing of photo scanning service providers who are current members of the Independent Photo Imagers.

In related news, the Photo Preservation Center announced the 2008 Artistry of Genealogy Awards (AGA), sponsored by ScanMyPhotos.com, which aims to help consumers preserve and record family history through genealogy. The categories and genealogy website winners during a telephone survey of 945 ScanMyPhotos.com customers across the nation during Jan. 12-March 24, who identified their favorite websites for the several categories. A list of categories and website winners is available on the AGA awards website.

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