Conversion of slides to print photographs/digital media

My dad was an amateur & took all his photos on slides before digital cameras b/c the image quality was better. He had a slide scanner that he purchased to convert them to digital files. You might look into that. We used a photo lab in Jackson, MS for prints, but I couldn’t tell you if they were still in business, I’m sorry!

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anyone have experience in maybe sending them off to a company that can convert? recommendations?
is there someplace local that can do it? estimates of cost?

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Costco, CVS, WalMart and others will do the scanning/conversion. There may be some local proprietors you can use.

Like this guy. Wareagle

He’s been busy scanning - no time to post

As someone who owns a dedicated film scanner, IMO this is not a task you want to try to do yourself unless you're a hobbyist or pro with a relatively high volume of film to scan. Anything inexpensive is cr@p, and anything other than S-L-O-W is expensive and/or cr@p.

Fortunately there are services that make a business of this. I don't know about BR, but in NOLA and on the northshore there's Lakeside Camera. The really big service, which had a good reputation last I knew, was or is Scan Cafe; IIRC they send your film to India, but this doesn't seem to have been a problem. If it doesn't need to be local but you want it in the U.S., you might try Mpix, Dwayne's in Kansas, or Bay Photo in California.