Over the thanksgiving holiday, I was looking through photo albums with my family. A few of the photos were so old they were deteriorating. My husband and I were worried about these family treasures, so we decided to scan all of the old photos to keep our visual family records intact. This is one way to create amazing, and unique, family trees!
As I started the scanning process, I was labeling the photos with generic names like, “mom with me at the beach” or “mom holding me”. My husband came up with this Tip: label your photos as if a stranger would be looking at them. For example, use your loved ones’ full names, including your own. “Mary and her daughter Grace at the beach,” for example.
We also decided to scan the photos so that each and every family member would have the photos. That way there would be no disagreements about who would get the photos. Plus, it is nice to have them. We posted our photo collection on www.photobucket.com and www.facebook.com so that our families could access the photos for quick viewing. Another way to distribute photos to everyone is to burn them onto CDs. We save our photos on an external hard drive. However you decide to scan the photos and store them, just be sure to label the photos for future generations.
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