How do I do away with family pictures?
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Sylvia
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I have boxes and boxes of pictures that I no longer want or need. I thought about scanning them and putting them on a disc but there are so many of them.
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Scan the ones that mean something to you that you would like to look at on occasion. Reach out to family members and tell them you are doing a photo purge and offer them. I did this for my nieces (I had a lot of pictures of their parents' wedding) and they were so thrilled because their father had passed away a few years ago.
There is a scanner for photos that you can just feed one after another and they load to your computer. Load that to a flash drive and they are all on a tiny device you can fit in the palm of your hand. Give to a photography club, library, family members, crafters use them to make projects as do schools.
You could scan them in groups of pictures and then put them on a disc rather than one picture at a time.
I have scanned all of my pictures from before 1975 to when we started using digital cameras. It was worth it, because there have been times when I wanted or needed one of them. Set up folders and do one year at a time. You'll be glad you did.
Cloud storage also helps after scanning them. Some companies offer scanning services similar to when people had family movies transferred from VHS to digital.