If you’re shopping for the best places to store your photos, videos, and other memories then you’re certainly aware of free storage options.
Who doesn’t love free or low cost? And with the holidays coming up, you’ll be taking many more photos and videos with your smartphone.
Taking memories is the easy part. Storing them so they’re organized and accessible for future generations is the big question, just like my parents’ photos are available for descendants in the next century and beyond.
What are your goals?
Snapping photos and taking videos is easy and usually done on impulse.
One of the kids is unwrapping a present. Snap.
Someone tells a joke during Thanksgiving and everyone laughs. Snap.
The kids’ choir walks onto the risers at church and videos start rolling.
You and your dad are watching your favorite sports team in the playoffs and someone snaps a photo of this sentimental moment.
We’re “in the moment” and these moments tug on our emotions. But I want you to begin thinking longer term so descendants you’ll never meet will enjoy your photos for many decades to come.
Consider what your goals are.
Goals? Sounds strange. How can I have goals for taking photos and videos at Hannukah or Christmas?
Think long term.
You’re capturing your family’s legacy
My passion as a photo coach is helping families tell their unique stories and preserve or safeguard those stories for many decades to come … even into the next century and beyond.
This is why choosing the right photo and video storage solution is so important.
Your memories are moments in time that you’ll never get back.
Here are challenges people encounter.
Too many companies offer storage that seems safe, but it can be gone instantly and without warning.
Another problem you face is being immersed in digital clutter on your phone with hundreds and thousands of photos and videos. And many families have clutter around their houses with printed photos, older VHS tapes, slide shows, and documents.
The more photos and videos you take, the tougher it is to find your most meaningful memories.
Let’s digitize your older files and store them in the same place as your most recent files.
Permanent storage vs. free and low-cost storage
Think long-term for your storage.
This coming holiday season, when you take photos and videos imagine what these moments will mean to someone 50 years from now and 100 to 150 years from now.
What will they learn about you and your family and what you value?
What will they learn about your traditions? Is there something you’d like to pass along.
Your family’s story started long before you were born. What printed photos, VHS tapes, handwritten letters and other memories are lying around?
These are also part of your legacy and I’ll show you how to easily digitize them.
The best photo and video storage solution you should consider using is FOREVER®. You can easily see how many photos and videos you have of different family members.
Bring your newest photos and videos into the same, secure place as photos and videos from last century.
Reasons to use FOREVER®
Permanent storage
FOREVER® is built to last. The company’s business model is designed to store your files for a lifetime, plus 100 years and with the goal of keeping them safe and accessible even longer.
This promise is guaranteed.
How?
The FOREVER Guarantee Fund will migrate your files to newest formats when the current format becomes obsolete. No extra cost to you, your children, future generations.
Powerful, right?
You digitize a photo that’s over a hundred years old or digitize a home movie from the 1950s and store them so they’re accessible well into 2100 and beyond.
This is my late grandmother as a four-year-old girl in 1910. My grandchildren’s children will be able to access it many years from now.
Your files remain safe
Your photos and videos are stored in their original size, will never be compressed, and they’ll never be deleted. Your memories are protected against accidental loss or the changing policies of free and low-cost services.
Your privacy is respected
You own your FOREVER® account and have full ownership of your files and share only with family and friends who you choose.
Those free and low-cost services generate revenue by using your content for data mining and advertising.
Reduced clutter
Easily take inventory of your memories.
FOREVER®’s digital albums make it easy to see how many photos you’ve taken of your children, grandchildren, and other family members and friends.
Organize your albums before you take photos and videos.
I did this during a trip with friends from the Bay Area to Southern California. You can see that I set up my albums before the trip. Uploading them was easy as we traveled and right after the trip.
After they were uploaded, I deleted the files from my phone and reduced the clutter.
Easy journaling
Every file you upload to FOREVER® has space in the right margin to name the file, the date it was taken and you have space to write brief notes or a longer story about the photo, video, or document. You can share why this is important and what it means.
Leaving a legacy
Account holders can choose to make their content available for future generations. This means your children, grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren can access photos and videos with written text and read the stories about those who have passed. Your legacy can live on, allowing future generations to connect with their roots and the memories of their loved ones.
Versatility
Your digital files can be seamlessly turned into printed photo books and other gifts to give during the holidays and all year long. Create “thinking of you” mementos and themed books.
Curious about your family’s history?
Consult with professional genealogists to know how to start researching your family line. My husband, Gerald, and I have used FOREVER®’s services to trace our family line back to the mid-to-early 1800s.
A friend of mine, Rori Grosse, used FOREVER® to trace her line back to the late 1500s in Germany.
Do you have a memory storage plan?
I’d enjoy helping you create an easy-to-use storage plan.
Contact me and let’s chat about what you need for storage and digitization.
Your family’s memories are priceless and worth safeguarding for future generations.