Does anyone have experience merging old family photos and family history?

Question

I am minimizing photos (no one need 36 pictures of any birthday party) down to representative photos , birth to death of a person.
If you have done this I would love some input on the texting and how you do it and pull your albums together.

I have a great deal of family history back to the late 1700's .

Thanks to one and all for any input!

Answer 1

Hey Samm,

Sounds like you have a very large project on your hands, but that you enjoy it. This is more than my experience with actual albums. My preferred method is to scan the photos, all of them, and store them in a directory for each person. Electronic storage is so cheap. When scanning, you can scan multiple photos on each scan. When you save the file, give it an appropriate name answering who and when, like "Me_Nov-28-2006.jpg"

After you put that together, you can make a DVD for each member of the family you intend to pass it down to. This also facilitates using the pictures in a Family Tree program, something else you can pass down.

Answer 2

i do unlike kinfolk photos or albums. i can't make any in my person existence. My human beings saved their previous image albums in a back corner of my mattress room closet, with the containers of tax place of work work. whilst i replaced into 12 or 13, i desperate to flow poking by way of them. i got here upon that my father had a 'first spouse' who wasn't my mom, and that i had a half-brother I in no way knew existed. I felt betrayed by using my mom and dad for in no way having advised me approximately my brother or approximately my dad's early errors, and that i in no way observed my dad interior the same easy, ever back. From that factor on, kinfolk image albums have been keepers of unfavorable and traumatizing secrets and strategies; like how the internet captures and holds directly to each stupid factor you ever say or do on line, available for reference years and years when you be attentive to greater advantageous. That stated, my kinfolk image albums additionally incorporate the smiling photographs of kinfolk who ended up assembly somewhat unhappy and tragic ends. i don't opt to be reminded that those moments (on the bowling alley, at a park, at a action picture) all those years in the past, have been the appropriate it ever have been given for them. It makes me sense like i've got already experienced the appropriate i will ever adventure, and now this is downhill from there until I die. whilst kinfolk image albums make you opt to mourn the pitiful lives your loved ones contributors lived, you have a tendency to ward off them.