I am an avid reader and my genre of choice is non-fiction, history, biography and of course genealogy books.
From time to time I am going to start posting a book review of a book that I have on my bookshelf.
I hope you enjoy!
A Simple Guide to Saving Your Family Photos aims to help anyone who has photographs stashed in shoe boxes, plastic containers, under their beds or in the back of a closet. Many genealogists have this problem and are always seeking help to organize their photos.
Knowing where to start in
photo organization is how this book begins. Bartlett says “I wrote this book in
several chapters to set the state for the multiple phases your photo
organization project can go through”. The author explains she and Ann Matuszak
founded the company Pixologie, Inc. and
states “it’s the first photo organization company of its kind in the country”.
There are seven chapters in
the book; each deals with a different topic related to photo organization.
Bartlett addresses many aspects of photo organization from organizing original
photographs to dealing with digital photographs. Bartlett explains that
preserving and organizing photos are important for our children, families and
to connect the generations.
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| George Washington Stringfield Family, ca. 1903, Melissa Barker Photographs |
This book has appropriately
placed photographs of the organizational process in each page where that part
of the process is being described. Many of the steps described in the book are
in bullet point listings for easy reading and referencing. Bartlett
instructions are concise and are very easy to follow.
On page 31, Bartlett provides
an example of an age chart to use as a tool to dating photographs and is a
great tool when trying a large amount of photographs. Chapter 3 discusses which
photos to keep and which ones to toss. I pretty much agree with Bartlett’s
suggestions with the exception of tossing photographs of people she says are
“not relevant in your life anymore”. As an archivist, I would suggest that no
photos of people be tossed but donated to an appropriate archive.
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| Age chart from Page 31 |
Bartlett gives the reader
great step-by-step instructions on how to organize the many different kinds of
photographs. The steps are easy to follow and there are many photos share in
the book to help those that need visuals. Chapter 5 deals entirely with
scanning photographs. Bartlett does a great job of explaining the process and
the equipment needed to achieve this goal. The last chapters shows the reader
how to back-up digital photos, save photos and use cloud storage for all
digital photographs.
A Simple Guide To Saving Your Family Photos is a great little book and reference guide for anyone
embarking on a photograph organization project.
A Simple Guide to Saving Your Family Photos by Mollie Bartlett
Published 2016 by Pixologie http://www.pixologieinc.com
ISBN 978-0-9978136-1-6
Get Your Copy from Amazon: https://amzn.to/3eDGy7m
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