What to do with all your pictures?

[Lakewooder]

You can post them on myfamily.com or some other site with your family tree..amazing stuff you can find there - maybe somebody can even ID them for you.

Also there may be family facebook sites, I am just not aware of them - but seems it would be easy to set up...

[Bette]

My mother just passed away this year but one of my treasures has been going through all the pictures. Twenty years ago, I probably wouldn't have felt the same way but time has a way of doing that to you.

I love having the old pictures - I even have some from the 1800's - but I have found out so much about her that I did not know. I wish she had gone through them with me.

A lot of them were stored away (nicely done) for years and years.

[flyonpa]

My dad has been converting the 16mm movies we have to DVD's has given each kid a set of DVD's with family vacations, holidays, school sports, plays etc... its great to have. As for the thousands of slides & prints he has not tackeled that one yet.

[old_cold]

We did cull the many Xmas trees.....one from 1964 doesn't end up looking much different than the one from 1991....those vacations shots of a road sign taken from a moving car window.....locale shots with an indistinguisable person in front of a fountain, others with no persons in them especially.
Offered whatever ones they wanted to the kids and grandkids then threw the rest out.
We've saved many that we still refer back to for various reasons but know the kids won't be interested in them either, when we're gone.
We have not regretted, at all, any of the dozens and dozens that have been discarded.

The photos from my parents house.....some from back in the 1800's ...wre fun to go through and mom had diligently identified most of the people in them.
Bless her for that...it's great finding out what long gone never met great Aunt Millie looked like.
But even those, we only kept a representative number of.

Go through with a strangers eyes.If you'd say "What's that supposed to be" or "Who 's that?" or "Damn...that's the 20th shot of that dog".....get rid of it

[Tek_Freek]

Scanning is an excellent option. If you have a multifunction printer that also scans it should send scans to a paint/photo program. When I did ours (About 2000 images of pictures documents, etc) I would lay as many as 8 items on the platen (legal size scanner) and scan them all at once. I then separated the pictures by using copy/paste as new in the software and saved each one separately.

Once you get into a rhythm it doesn't take that long.

If this is an option post that it is and I'll help you through it.

Buying a printer/scanner might cost less than paying to have each one scanned at a store, it will certainly take less time.

BTW I mailed a copy of the CD to anyone in the family that wanted one.

And I 2nd (3rd, 4th?) writing the information on the back. Use a soft pencil NO INK!! The largest folder on the CD I sent was Unknown