Preserving History: IAAM Scanning Event at Gethsemani Community Center

Join us Saturday, Sept.21, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., for a free family and community history event at the Gethsemani Community Center! Preserve your family’s history with the IAAM’s Center for Family History and Education team and Vivid-Pix.

The Chicora Cherokee and Accabee communities will have the opportunity to scan and digitize up to 10 family photos (pre-1970s) and documents using scanning software from Vivid-Pix (to use the scanner, photos and documents need to be 11”x17” or smaller).

Please bring a 1 terrabyte USB drive. The digital scans of your documents and pictures will be saved on this drive for you to take home. You will also be asked to complete and sign a short donation form for the Center to add your donated records to the Center for Family History’s archive.

Community elders can join too - there will be a commemorative “story booth” audio recording area where the elders can record family memories or historic community memories from ‘back in the day’.

For younger community members there will be plenty of fun activities to do, making this a day for the whole family! However, to guarantee a scanning spot during the day, Chicora Cherokee and Accabee community members are encouraged to sign up for a 15-minute scanning spot.

Sign up for a scanning spot

Acceptable documents and images

• Church Obituaries
• Funeral Programs
• Birth Records
• Delayed Birth Records
• Marriage Records
• Death Records
• Pre-1970 Family Photographs
• Pictures of Old Black Charleston (neighborhoods, businesses, etc.)
• Family Bibles (with family birth, marriage, and death entries)
• Slavery-related documents