How we manage our photos is an important aspect of doing family history work; whether photos from the past or photos from our present – they all tell stories. Today, Facebook announced that everyone now has the ability to transfer your Facebook photos & videos into your Google Photos account. This is a handy […]
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It’s Mother’s Day and I am quite assuredly taking advantage of the day to do something for me. That’s how it should be done, right? So, over the past week or so, I’ve worked on making additional progress with my physical photo organization. I’ve blogged several times about it over the past few months –
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Today is the culmination of the American Library Association’s National Preservation Week, a week dedicated to ensuring that institutions and individuals are aware of the importance of preserving our items. Seeing to it that my own personal and family items are preserved is a priority for me and I could definitely benefit from more diligence
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Oh my! I’ve just created a photo book in less than 5 minutes! Let me share more. I’ve shared here on my blog before that I scrapbook throughout the year and make family yearbooks. I started doing this in 2017 and I have found it a worthwhile and meaningful way to document our memories. I
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This past week has been a hard one for my city and the surrounding region. Nashville and the Mid-Tennessee region experienced bad storms Monday night and a tornado that covered a 50-mile path along the ground. Fortunately, I and my family are okay and our neighborhood did not suffer damage. That cannot be said for
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I’ve been blogging for 14 years and I find it an excellent way to share my research findings and the processes I use for my family history research. Digital is my forte and I embrace it wholly! When it comes to ensuring that the work I do sustains beyond me, I am, at this point,
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We’ve just had the Superbowl and part & parcel of the Superbowl are the ads. Did you see the Loretta Ad? Oh my goodness! I was half paying attention to it when it aired, but as I heard the tail end of it, I was enamored and it made me teary-eyed – and from what
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One of my goals this year is to incorporate more videos into the content I share. I’m delighted to be able to share a full-length presentation today! Through multiple blog posts over the past few months, I’ve been sharing the strategies I use to organize my digital photo collection. These include: creating a photo hub
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Intro: This post is #6 is a series I am writing about my digital photo/file organization processes. In previous posts, I covered 1) how I gather my photos into one place, 2) how I name my files, 3) how I backup my digital photos, 4) how I establish a structure for my files. and 5)
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Just when I start to get comfortable thinking that I have my family history organization all squared away, my mother asks me a question that makes me realize how much more progress I still have to make! 🙂 But, that’s okay! It keeps me motivated to continue making progress in my photo and file organization
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