How Digitizing Old Photos and Videos is the First Step to Safe, Permanent Storage
You’ve seen some of my older family photos if you’ve read through my blog posts. I’m able to share them with you because they’re digitized and safely stored in my FOREVER® digital space. This photo of my grandmother when she was 4 years old was taken well over 100 years ago. You’ll learn two […]
Researching Family History: Meeting His Grandfather Almost 100 Years After His Death
Researching family history often starts with a natural curiosity about someone we’ve heard about and seen in photos. If you know what their occupation was you can dig deeper into their story. Now, I’m a photo coach who loves seeing how families use old photos to research their family’s history and learn something new. The […]
Protecting Your Essential Documents, Including Photos, Videos, and Other Memories
TV news and social media in my area in greater Palm Spring was filled with scenes from the fast-moving Hurricane Hilary. The tropical storm swept through the desert cities stranding drivers and forcing a nursing home evacuation in places like Cathedral City. In La Quinta where I live our weather is normally quite boring. We […]
Store Photos and Videos of Your Aging Parents and Adult Children Safely and Permanently
In a half hour, I’ll show you how to easily and safely store a lifetime of memories that you’ve collected from your parents and your children. But first, read why I’d like to do it. I’ve been a photo coach for 30 years and I know why our memories are so important in situations like […]
Why Our Family Histories are Valuable Treasures to Research and Safeguard for Future Generations
You stumble across a black-and-white family photo of a great-grandmother baking bread during the Great Depression or a grandfather shipping off to war. Our family histories are worth researching and storing in a safe place for those born in future centuries. This Independence holiday week, here’s a brief glimpse of a family who laid the […]
Read This if You’re Looking for the Best Home Business
Are you looking for the perfect home business, or the best home business to operate that fits your lifestyle? There’s a difference. I don’t believe there’s a perfect home business, but I do believe you can operate a business full-time or part-time that matches your personality and is professionally satisfying. For me, that satisfying home […]
Here’s how to permanently save and store your summer vacation photos and videos
A quick search of top vacation spots in the U.S. and Canada shows that national parks and Hawaii top the list for U.S. News and World’s Report Travel section. Glacier National Park was given the top spot while Maui came in second. Grand Canyon National Park came in third and Honolulu-Oahu came in fourth. Yellowstone, […]
How to Easily Know What Photos and Videos You Have Stored … and What You Need
Do you ever wonder what types of photos and videos you’ve already taken? Keeping an inventory of your memories is tough if one of the kids or grandparents hasn’t recently been in person at a holiday, like Mother’s Day, Father’s Day or the 4th of July. Even if your kids are still young in middle […]
Trusted, Permanent Storage for Photos, Videos, Letters, and More
A friend of mine was visiting his childhood home and was cleaning an upstairs attic that his elderly father could no longer clean. He found a shoebox covered with dust, opened the lid, and saw it stuffed with letters. He pulled one out and saw dozens more letters his deceased mother had written to his […]
Reasons to Digitize Old Memories like Postcards, Letters, and Awards
You find a postcard from your trip to the Grand Canyon or that special vacation you took to Italy decades ago. And you want to save it for your grandkids and their grandkids. How do you safely store it? That’s what I’m tackling this week. Postcards from the past are memories worth saving just like […]