@Dan Maloney  if you have all the negatives then something like @Ken Yap did might be the easiest for you. Some of the scanners do a nice job. I did run a couple of slides through a scanner as well and my quality was comparable. If anyone wants a better copy of any of them I will scan them individually.

When I did my slides I bought an Epson flatbed scanner that came with a slide holder. It can do 4 slides at a time. Put it next to my desktop and scanned a few thousand slides over the course of many nights while doing other stuff on the computer. It was necessary to take the slides out to brush off the dust with air. I can see the grain in the image so I know I'm getting the maximum detail possible at my chosen resolution, 3200 dpi, a compromise between detail and speed. The software also does shadow enhancement semi-automatically. The scanner also comes with a negative holder that can hold a strip.

It sounds like that might be my next project. The family thinks I did such a good job on these I should do the prints as well. I have been looking at the projects for automatic book scanning so I don't have to take them out of the albums. 

My problem is all the print photos I have lying around. Seems like I should scan them, or at least scan the negatives and put the prints in deep storage. Maybe something like this would help.