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Organize and enjoy your familys memories!Youve captured countless cherished family photos of babies first steps, graduations, weddings, holidays, vacations, and priceless everyday moments on your smartphone or digital camera. Perhaps youve inherited a collection of heirloom family photographs, too. But now what?How to Archive Family Photos is a practical how-to guide for organizing your growing digital photo collection, digitizing and preserving heirloom family photos, and sharing your treasured photos.In this book, youll find:Simple strategies to get your photos out of a smartphone or camera and into a safe storage spaceEasy methods to organize and back up your digital photos, including file-naming and tagging hintsAchievable steps to digitize and preserve heirloom family photosStep-by-step workflows illustrating common photo organizing and digitizing scenariosChecklists for setting up your own photo organization system25 photo projects to preserve, share, and enjoy your family photos Whether you have boxes full of tintypes and black-and-white photographs, an ever-growing collection of digital photos, or a combination of the two, this book will help you rescue your images from the depths of hard drives and memory cards (or from the backs of closets) so that you can organize and preserve your family photo collection for future generations.
About the Author
"In every family, someone inherits 'The Stuff.'" After Denise May Levenick inherited a trunk filled with century-old letters, photographs, and memorabilia, she set out on a quest to learn how to safely preserve her family history treasures in a home archive. She discovered practical archival techniques for that anyone can use to safely organize and store family photos, documents, and artifacts.
Denise shares what she learned about working with family heirlooms and uncovering the stories they hold on her award-winning genealogy blog TheFamilyCurator.com and in her books How to Archive Family Keepsakes and How to Archive Family Photos.
Denise is a native Southern Californian, where she still lives surrounded by an every-growing archive of family treasures.
