How to Organize Your Family Photos

Published: Sun, 08/30/15

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How to Organize Your Family Photos
How to Organize Your Family Photos
Even those of us who aren’t genealogists usually accumulate a lot of photographs over the years. Some of them end up in albums, others are scattered in digital folders, shoe boxes, and even empty drawers. Genealogists gather even more photos than the average person, through inheritance, gifting, sharing with other genealogists, and a sense of needing to photograph nearly everything to document special and even average family moments for future generations. Taking photos and accumulating them is an important part of genealogy, and it is easy to do. What is not so easy is organizing them. Yet, if you don't organize them, the identities of those in the photos may be lost to time, and the photos themselves challenging to find when you want to look at certain ones...
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