If you’re deciding which company to use for digitizing your printed photos and other memories, read on to see why I use FOREVER® for my family and with my clients.
As a photo coach, decluttering and digitizing is one of the main services I provide.
Digitize and declutter
Don’t let micro video tapes, slide shows, old documents you’re keeping and other files clutter closets, shelves, and your garage or storage units. Digitize your older media so you save space and can enjoy the memories you’ve collected and saved.
I use FOREVER®, the most complete memory-keeping system available. You can bring all of your older, legacy media files into the same place with the photos and videos you’ll take in the coming years.
It offers a seamless way of having printed photos digitized along with all your older media like Super 8 home movies.
The digitization team operates in a state-of-the-art facility just outside Green Bay, Wisconsin and has earned an industry-leading rating with Trust Pilot.
I’m passionate that you save your family’s memories just like I’ve done with my family.
Let’s focus on who to digitize.
Who to digitize
I started my photo coaching business in 1995 so next spring I’ll be celebrating 30 years of helping families like yours preserve memories.
The people in your life are dear and memories of them are treasures that can’t be replaced.
I was a young mom when I started, and now I’m a young grandmother. Hard to believe what can happen in just a few decades.
Are you a grandparent like me?
A goal I have in digitizing is telling my family’s story in pictures and with written descriptions.
I’ve digitized photos of my grandmother’s side of the family, my parents, and my kids.
What photos of friends and loved ones do you need to digitize? Consider these ideas:
- Photos and videos of children from the first decade of the 2000s and earlier
- Your high school years
- Vacations
- Your parents and grandparents
- Great-grandparents
If you’re a young adult, then be sure to help your parents capture their lives in photos, videos, and other documents.
Digitizing for Unexpected Life Events
If you don’t know where to begin, then I suggest you digitize photos, videos and more for older family members.
A friend of mine, Amy Vanden Berg, lost her father suddenly in an accident. He was in good health, robust, and in his 70s.
She had helped digitize photos to tell his life story and that simplified the planning for his memorial service.
It isn’t just tragedies that should motivate us.
Another friend of mine, Brandi Koehm, has a grandmother in her 90s with Alzheimer’s. Brandi has had her grandmother’s videos digitized and stored in her FOREVER® account.
When she visits her grandmother, she uses the FOREVER® video streaming option to show her grandmother videos when her children were young. The memories boost her grandmother’s spirits and rejuvenate her.
Scroll down to link to Amy’s and Brandi’s stories and the story of Nancy and her mother’s wedding home movie who I mention below.
Start digitizing
Let’s begin digitizing and decluttering in 3 steps.
- Choose a staging area. This can be a space that’s not used and a place where you can bring all of your older memories (printed photos, video tapes, and more) so they’re in one place. Use a storage bin if you need to keep them protected.
- Get rid of duplicates and out-of-focus pictures.
- Choose the size box from FOREVER® that meets your needs, pack it, and ship your box to FOREVER®.
After your files are digitized, you can download them or store them in your FOREVER® Permanent Storage account so you get privacy, security, peace of mind, own the digital rights of your memories and more. The originals will be returned to you.
Organize and Store Digitally
Storing in FOREVER® has advantages like:
- Creating digital albums. These can be of
- Grandchildren – a start of school, a sport, a milestone
- Adult children – starting career, business, pastime, life events
- Aging loved ones and their life story
- Your story
- Turning your digital files into photo books and other gifts.
- Using FOREVER®’s professional genealogists to help you research your family line like I’ve been doing. We’ve traced my mother’s side back to the Civil War era and my husband Gerald has been connected with his great-great-great grandfather, born in 1829.
Why Choose FOREVER®
How do you choose the best company to digitize your photos when there are many with positive reviews?
Here are a few benefits of why I choose FOREVER®.
#1 Reason for me was FOREVER’s Guarantee Fund which means not only will they migrate your outdated digital files when they become obsolete to a newer current formats but also guarantee your account for your lifetime plus 100 years with a goal for generations beyond.
Files are digitized by hand and fragile files are handled with care. A friend of mine, Nancy Launi, had a clip of her parents’ wedding video from 1953 digitized. She had found it in the garage, sent it to FOREVER®, and they carefully digitized it.
You’re in charge.
You own your account with FOREVER®. The digital rights of your content is … yours!
Services that are free or with free options like Google Photos need to make money. Your content is used for marketing and advertising purposes.
You’ll never have to worry about data mining or other strategies with FOREVER®.
FOREVER® isthe safest digitizing solution and best permanent storage solution that I’ve found.
Your Children can Continue Your Legacy
You can have your FOREVER® account in your will so your children and grandchildren can continue building your legacy by adding files on behalf of you as your appointed Account Manager.
What do you want to digitize?
What are the items you’d like to digitize and store?
Contact me and I’ll gladly answer your questions, create a plan with you, and let you know how FOREVER® can be your solution.
I care that you leave your family’s history for future generations.
Enjoy these uplifting stories
Here are the stories of my friends and colleagues I mentioned above:
- Read Amy’s story
- Read Brandi’s story
- Read Nancy’s story