Preserve Your Family’s Legacy

Have you ever wished you could preserve your precious family photos and videos for future generations? The Wichita Genealogical Society is working to make that dream a possibility for you and our community. We’re thrilled to partner with the Advanced Learning Library to create a Memory Lab—a state-of-the-art space designed to help you digitize and preserve your family’s history. Imagine having the tools to transform aging photos, home videos, and treasured documents into digital keepsakes that will last forever. This incredible resource will give families throughout Wichita the opportunity to safeguard their legacies.

And here’s the best part: you can help make this dream come true!

Your donation not only helps fund the Memory Lab but also builds a lasting resource for the entire community. Together, we can empower individuals and families to preserve their stories and ensure they are passed down to future generations.

Let’s make history together—one memory at a time.

How Can You Help?

• Donate today and help us bring the Memory Lab to life!
  
  • Click here: wichitagensoc.org/page-18209 to donate securely.
  • By Mail: Send your donation to:
    Wichita Genealogical Society
    P.O. Box 3705
    Wichita, KS 67201-3705
    (Please include “Memory Lab” in the memo line.)

Sneak Peek: Some of the Equipment We Hope to Purchase

Epson FastFotoFF-680W: Preserve what’s priceless with the Epson^® FastFoto FF-680W — the World’s Fastest Personal Photo Scanner. Scan thousands of photos — as fast as 1 photo per second. Easily restore, save, organize and share photos, postcards, panoramas, documents and more. The convenient mobile app enables you to capture the voice of loved ones and create slideshows, so you can easily share stories about your photos right from your smartphone, from a first-hand perspective, for generations to come. Plus, FastFoto brings old photos to life with auto enhancement, color restoration and more. Offering the ultimate in versatility, it includes a variety of format options for quick sharing, archiving and enlargements.

Epson Perfection V600: The Epson Perfection V600 Photo delivers outstanding quality scans from photos, film, slides and everyday documents. With 6400 x 9600 dpi resolution, this high performance scanner ensures precision film scanning for sharp, vivid reproductions up to 17" x 22" Featuring DIGITAL ICE® for both film and prints, one-touch color restoration and ArcSoft PhotoStudio, this scanner provides a complete photo restoration solution.

Wolverine Transmedia: Resurrect and preserve your old videos from Camcorders, VCRs and DVDs and Audio CDs into today’s MP4 (720p) digital formats that you can record directly to SD cards, Flash drives, Hard Drives, or burn DVDs using the built-in DVD recorder/player. This multi-faceted machine not only records but also can be used as a multimedia player for your TV through its HDMI output. Furthermore, use the TransMedia as a backup device. Directly copy any data from SD-Cards to Flash-Drives or Hard-Drives or vice versa.