Organize Your Boxes Of Photos

[@lauralonati7048]

I have watched a zillion videos! This is it!! Plastic excellent! Color coding excellent! And sorting them by childhood and then separate once they are married! BINGO! I was struggling with this on my son and this is the most simplistic way! Love it!!

[@FamilyHistoryHero]

@lauralonati7048 Glad it was helpful! I struggled with organization way too long before I finally came up with this system. It has worked very well for me and many others. All the best in your project!

[@lauralonati7048]

@@FamilyHistoryHero well thank you for putting this video out there!

[@kristenmunson7970]

Linda, this is just some truly great common sense tips for beginning the photo-organizing process!

[@FamilyHistoryHero]

Thanks so much!

[@bnyzhny]

Thank you, Linda. These are Great organization techniques to meet ALL organizing challenges - not Only for photos! 🥰👏

[@FamilyHistoryHero]

@Bonnie Brannon Thanks, Bonnie! Glad you enjoyed the tips!

[@oO1723]

super awesome categorisation tip thanks!

[@FamilyHistoryHero]

I'm glad it was helpful!

[@FamilyHistoryHero]

So glad to hear it was helpful!

[@nellcovington4001]

Thanks, Linda. Looks like I had the right idea. Just need to finish implementing it. Appreciate your hard work.

[@shopwithcharlease7608]

Linda I just found your channel today. I started trying to organize my pictures in a way that will allow me to pass albums to my sons and their wives. I was confused and overwhelmed with which pictures I should include in each album. This video was very helpful. I've hit that subscribe button!

[@FamilyHistoryHero]

@Charlease Bryant Welcome, Charlease! I'm so glad my organizing method was helpful for you! Wishing you the best as you work on your albums!

[@mclenachan]

Great tips! Thank you!

[@FamilyHistoryHero]

@Linda McLenachan You're welcome, Linda-glad it was helpful. 😊

[@lskmc2091]

Awesome video- thanks!

[@FamilyHistoryHero]

You're welcome!

[@andrewlarking7492]

What about when two families or a mixture are in the photo?

[@FamilyHistoryHero]

I have a way of approaching this that I cover in detail in my class, Unlock The Boxes including questions to ask yourself to help you make a decision, but the bottom line is that if YOU ended up with the boxes YOU get to choose! Decide what you want to do and do it!

[@adrienneloffredo3053]

I’ve just taken this on for my family - and I’m thrilled! I have a question about this method: my parents, grandparents and great-grandparents were always together. Your advise on where to *begin* a family group makes sense to me. Here’s what I’m wondering: pictures of say a picnic with all of these generations present - which family group would you include them with?

[@FamilyHistoryHero]

Thanks Adrienne-I'm glad you enjoyed the info! With photos of multiple people your family takes first priority. After all, YOU are the family historian documenting the family history. Did you and your kids attend a family reunion with lots of relatives? Then all the photos from that event stay with your family. Is it a special event celebrating your parent's 50 year anniversary? They get the photos. If you have some duplicates, keep some for your family. Each photo with multiple people is a judgment call that you get to make since you're the family historian dealing with those photos. For older photos before your time you will have far fewer to deal with but again it'll be a judgement call. Which family group has the fewest photos and needs those photos the most? Another option is to scan the photo and print enough copies so each family unit can have a copy but that adds a lot of similar photos and may feel redundant. Trust your instincts. You'll know what is best!

[@judithwright3434]

I love the idea of putting photos in clear boxes, but I would like to know if you can buy plastic boxes that are safe for photos. I wouldn't like to have my precious photos deteriorate over time because the container they're in isn't archival safe.

[@FamilyHistoryHero]

That's an interesting question for the plastic tubs. Most of my photos are organized first in plastic ziplock style bags, which according to my research online are safer than many archival papers, but I would need to research further about the boxes themselves. UPDATE: I've done further research on this but it's too involved to go into here. Short answer is that there are some very good plastic tub options and another option is to purchase containers from a company who specializes in safe photo storage containers like Gaylord.com

[@billsstudio2528]

Also, stepping into a more macro way, is just go by year.....I do this on my computer and it works fine...unless you have tons of pics I guess.

[@FamilyHistoryHero]

@ Bill's Studio-Going by year has worked marvelously for my digital photos...not so well for my boxes of family photos-for a variety of reasons. That's why I came up with an alternative method that made it simple for me and something that even a stranger (or descendant!) can quickly understand.

[@spaciodecm]

Great posture, Beautiful, Thank you)

[@livelifelbw]

Love it, I am into color coding.

[@FamilyHistoryHero]

Haha! I love it too-and it's fun!

[@Dkmeier123]

It didn’t help me one bit as it’s all one family from me when I was a little girl to a grandmother so I still had 8000 pictures to try to figure out how to do it because you didn’t get to that part at all

[@FamilyHistoryHero]

You're right! I don't teach an entire class on organization in one KZbin video! But what you learned here allows you separate the 8000 photos into at least 4 sections: two sets of grandparents along with photos of both of your parents when they were young and lived with them, your parents after they got married along with you when you were young, and your family (spouse? children) after you grew up and left home. That's the first step of any family photo organization. If you want a deeper dive with very specific examples and unlimited answers to questions from students you're welcome to check out my class here: myancestorbox.com