What is the best way to organize family photos

To me it is easier by date

Large picture frame with all different sizes in it . Place mixed photos of holidays in one and school pictures in another Black and whit in another . His family and your family in another if your married in the same age group when you were young. Like if you have a picture of you when you were 10 and one of him at 10. They have large frames with all different shapes in them and the frames in different sizes . Place one higher than than other and one sideways and another lower or even like a step on the wall . That all depends on what frame you buy when hanging them .

If you're just organizing them, I'd say by date is your best bet. Scan them in if they aren't digital yet, and keep a copy on a thumb drive or on a program like Shutterfly to back them up. We also like to put a sub-folder (in each year's folder) for the "best of".

What I have done is to sort pictures by decade in photo boxes that I bought at Michaels. Then I bought a box for Christmas and 4th of July etc. I have dividers in each box and the holiday boxes I label by year. The decade boxes I'm working on sorting them by activity.

I typically go with chronological. However I also have some individual albums - like Christmas album, so funny to see years differences. Than I have some 3 individual grandkid albums, with just some of their special pictures or just that child and me. They love to come over and look at thier photo book.

Have fun it can be daunting task.

When I moved cross country I had to decide what to do with family pictures that I collected for years. To pass on to the next generation, why not sort by family member and then by date. It would be a gracious memorable gift from you that will always be remembered by everyone. Enjoy your project and your memories. Blessings to you and your family.

I got photo albums for each child......arranged their photos from birth to ?????.....when they're wanting (his or her) baby pictures, hand their respective album(s) to them and send it home with them! Makes 'em happy and you've gained a tiny bit of space :)

My mom and dad had lots of slides that were divided into slide boxes by us two kids and ones of both. The holidays are in one and labeled with the year. The are also labeled with which family side the holidays, etc. we were at. Between my brother and I we must have a hundred boxes of holidays, hunting trips, all sorts of relatives and occasions so we just have to look for what we want to revisit. Pictures could be done the same way.

I like chronological if you know the order, otherwise by event or person. If they would be of interest to other family members, scan them first and put them on disks or thumb drives and/or upload to a website to share. It's a job, but everyone will love you for it and its nice to be able to get reprints. I only use the best pictures for albums-it keeps them interesting. Label them all. Put the less interesting ones in labeled envelopes and back in the box. If they are old or faded, fix up the scans and print them for your albums. You can cut, enlarge and use fun filters on the reprints and save the originals. I don't use glue on irreplaceable old photos. I use photo corners and slide the pages (with descriptive tags for each page or photo) into clear plastic sleeves for protection. A family tree might be a nice addition too. Your kids won't know who "Aunt Polly" was and that's how beautiful family pictures end up in flea markets.