Organize Old Photographs - Record Information About Them
Want to have fun some evening or Sunday afternoon - besides going to be the beach? Want to do something nice for your family? Or do this with your family. You'll have a great time reminiscing and reliving old memories.
You know all those photographs you have sitting around, some in shoe boxes, some in photo albums? Some have something written on the back, some not? Oh, what a pain that's going to cause you and your family one of these days when no one can remember when the picture was taken, why or of whom.
Sit down with your digital recorder and start recording information about the photographs. Number the photographs, or in some way catalog them so they correspond to the recording, transfer the digital recording to your computer, burn it to a CD and include it with the photographs.
Go one step further and have it transcribed and you have created a treasured memory.
Not only can you give the name of the person in the photograph, but you can tell something fun or informative about when the photograph was taken, add a little history to it - like, "This is my niece. She and her sister look so much alike you have to be sure to put the name and date on the photograph or you'll never be able to tell them apart."
You get the picture - no pun intended. You can have fun remembering about the photographs and do something for you and your family instead of facing that future date when no one can remember about the picture.
Recording the information rather than writing it is so much more fun. It really brings the photographs to life and you can add so much more than you would if you were writing on the back of the photo. If you include the transcription with the photo and audio, you may even end up writing a book for your family -- a pictorial family history book.
