BUSINESSES Take Everything Digital
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Yorkville resident Penny Tvrdik believes family history needs to be passed on, generation after generation. Te mother of three, and grandmother “to many” lived
through the death of her mother many years ago, the sudden death in 2014 of her husband Ted, and more recently, in 2019, the death of her father-in-law. Each loss, she says, made her aware of how fragile memories are. “When my father-in-law passed away, we found a whole stack of home videos. So I figured out a way to digitize all of them and made copies for his family. And that made me think about what others could use these services.” She did some research and found stories of people mailing off film, videos, photos, and losing them forever. So she decided to do something different. She founded her company, Take Everything Digital, TED, honoring her late husband. “If you are within a 30-mile radius, I will come and pick
up what you want digitized,” she explains. “and I will deliver it back to your home again. It stays in my hands. People don’t have to worry about shipping.” She digitizes videos of all sizes, VHS tapes, videocassettes all the way down to minis and all sizes of film reels. She does photos and slides and can also do audio cassettes and reels. “What makes me different from Big Boxes is I do a free
content review. With Big Boxes you have to pay for every tape you send in. Instead, I will send my customer a little clip of what is on the tape and they can select what they want digitized.” Once completed, the items are on Penny’s computer.
She sends customers a link to her Dropbox and they can download onto their computers, and onto flash drives. “If you have a smart TV, you can use that flash drive to download it all onto the TV using a port in the back of the
Penny Tvrdik, owner of Take Everything Digital, hard at work saving a client’s old family photos.
Photo courtesy of DKP Films, Stolp Island, IL.
TV. If they don’t know how to put it on the flash drive, for a small fee I will do that for them and deliver it with their tapes.” She tells clients to give her six weeks to complete their
project, in case there are a lot of clients ahead of them, but says she can usually complete the job in two weeks. She says she has a steady stream of clients, even during the pandemic. “Te best pay for me is hearing the stories my clients tell me after they get the digitized photos or tapes,” she says. “Tat is my reward. People are able to see their family histories, which have been sitting in storage for long times. One customer said she hadn’t heard her father speak in 30 years. “But don’t wait too long,” she advises. “Mold can get on old film reels. Tapes deteriorate after 10 years. I highly recommend getting to this project as soon as you can.”
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