Easy Photo Preservation Protects Memories from Disaster

Nobody wants to think about what might happen, but think for a moment how terrible you'd feel if your child's baby pictures disappeared during a move; or if the photo albums your grandmother left of her childhood were lost in a fire. Natural disasters like floods and tornados are rare, but they do happen, and fires destroy thousands of homes every year. A home and most of the things inside it can be replaced, but those family photos, those memories from today and from generations past are precious possessions that are meant to stand the test of time. Unfortunately, it doesn't always work out that way.

Until recently, there was virtually no reasonable way to preserve your photos and give you the peace of mind that if something terrible happened to them, you'd still be able to keep your years of memories. But you can thank John Buchmann of Blaine, Minn., a suburb of Minneapolis, for a revolution of sorts.

"A few years ago during a move, my sister lost several boxes of prized family photos and was devastated. I got to thinking, too bad we didn't preserve them in some way. If we had, we could have recreated all of her albums," says Buchmann.

Ann Buchmann's misfortune could be a real life saver for you. That family disaster was the inspiration for her brothers company Shoebox911.com, a very unique photo preservation service. They will send you a prepaid Priority Mail shipping box that you can pack full of all your loose photos, whether you have just a few or a box full. Once the photos are received they are scanned using only the highest quality Kodak scanners available and saved digitally on a DVD.

You'll receive your original photos back, scanned at 300 dpi -- that's large enough to reprint photos at the same size as the originals -- along with a copy of the DVD. In addition, 2 separate copies of the DVD will be stored in 2 different disaster-safe locations for 5 years to ensure that you will always have a copy of your family photos and memories!

Your family has spent generations documenting all of those moments that make life so special so that they would be remembered by and passed on to generations yet to come.  Don't let the insurance company's photos be your only lasting memories. Give yourself peace of mind by preserving your photos today. Log on to www.shoebox911.com to get the process started.

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