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Why You Need To Save Your Photos Now!
Millions of photos are lost in natural disasters, household accidents, and technology crashes every year. Take action and save your photos today! You’re a What? Hi everyone! I’m so excited to be guest blogging for my fellow colleague Lisa! For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Caroline Guntur and I am a Certified Photo Organizer. Yes, that is actually a real job! I help people organize their photos to keep them safe for future generations, whether they are digital or printed collections, and I do this by teaching online courses, hosting webinars, and coaching people one-on-one. I love my job, and as you can image, I love photos! I’m very…
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5 Resources To Identify Your Ancestor’s Friends
Do you recognize your ancestor’s friends in the family photos? Who was important to your ancestor? Not all of the photographs you have in your collection will be of your ancestors. You may well have photographs of individuals who are not related to you. Especially after 1900 and the introduction of the Brownie camera, photography became more accessible to the general public and they certainly embraced it! But what about those individuals who appear in the photos and not the family tree? Certainly this makes them much harder to identify.
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How To Recognize Your Ancestor’s Antique Wedding Photo?
Do you have an antique wedding photo of your ancestors hiding in your collection of old family photos? Learn how to recognize it! Would you recognize your ancestor’s wedding photo in your collection of old family photographs? It’s time for another one of my confessions! 🙂 In the boxes (yes, I have multiple boxes of old family photographs) sit three antique wedding photos. While I knew who was in the photos, they sat for years as unrecognized wedding photos. I failed to analyze the clues hidden in those photos. I also did not understand the history of old family photos as well as I should. That was perhaps my biggest mistake!…
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How To Preserve & Digitize Old Family Photos
Options to digitize you old family photos and preserve them for future generations. Should you DIY or use a scanning service? You know you should digitize old family photos. After all, that shoe box in your closet is stuffed full of family photos. Finding a favorite photograph to share is next to impossible. Plus, you are worried about how those photographs will hold up over the years. Will they fade? Could they be lost in a fire or flood? Will they be tossed?! One of the best ways to preserve your old family photographs is to digitize them. When it comes to digitizing your photographs, you have the option to…