Hello all,
I am looking for recommendations on software to help inventory all sorts of family heirlooms, stories behind them, and pictures.
Items include Christmas ornaments, decorations and furniture. Many of the ornaments have a story behind them. I.e., brought over from Germany in 1899. Or, bought while parents were on honeymoon. Etc.
Other items include nearly 200+ CD's with of tiff/jpg/psd files, along with a lifetime of 35mm, 110/220, and medium format film. A family member was a professional photographer for most of their life.
We also have hundreds of books. Some are probably rare copies from early 1800's or even earlier. I want to start cataloging what we have and eventually digitizing those very rare books if I can't find a digital copy otherwise available. Anything I digitize here I plan to make public.
Lastly, we have a large number of documents, letters, government land lottery info, etc.
I am already working on getting genealogical information into TNG Web software.
Any ideas for the best types of software to try to catalog these types of things?
My eventual goal, after getting things cataloged and digitized is to open access to family members to see some or all the data. But this is aways in the future.
I've thought about developing my own solution, but I just don't have the time to dedicate to something this big at the moment.
Thank you.