5 Easy tips on preserving photos and your family heritage
- Our Family Photo Books
- Feb 3, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 4, 2020
Are you confident other family members know the context of important photos?
Are you concerned your valuable family photos may be lost or historical photos disregarded as 'unknown'?
Following, will be a free link regarding tips on how to prevent this included in a photo tribute to my Uncle.
Ensure your family's heritage; get out the old photos, talk about them, their story and record the details. Each picture has a story to tell, as does each person and their collective family.
* Store photos in the right conditions - a cool, dry, dark place to prevent brittleness, mould and fading.
* Photos should be in an album or photo box. If you have important photos in one of those horrid old self-adhesive album which can't be lifted off without damage - have them scanned.
* Heritage photos - have copies made of those precious old photos to display (storing the original as above)
* Do not hold photos together with paperclips or rubber bands.
* Where possible, refrain from writing on photos as this often causes indentations. I bought a packet of address labels - I write details on the label such as date, who is in the picture etc before putting on the back of the photos.
I hope you find these tips helpful.
with love from, Our Family Photo Books
Where is that photo?!
Can’t find it?... It could be in the box, it could be on the computer…. Do you need help organising your photos? Wouldn’t it be great to have a printed keepsake photo book(s) to reminisce over and share with others? Are you concerned those historical photos may loose their meaning?
For over three decades I've been collecting, storing and collating family photos. I have also enjoyed designing family tree layouts and interviewing people for historical stories.
So, if your experiencing photo overwhelm and know that you would love someone (me - Lesley) to help you get those wonderful memories and family history into a printed photo book, jot me an email with your name, contact number and a brief description of what you have in mind: ourfamilyphotobooks@gmail.com I look forward to talking with you.
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