Recording photo's
By dreamertink
@dfollin (25343)
United States
June 24, 2012 11:24am CST
I do genealogical researching,mostly for my own family.But,I do help other's.
.However,myself,as well as many other people find old pictures of people,places and things that do not have any information on them,such as names,dates,places and occasions.
When I asked my late husband for pictures of himself when he was a child,he said that he did not have any because they were destroyed in a fire.In doing this research I have seen many times that pictures and records have been destroyed due to a disaster such as a fire or flood,just to name a few.
I am finding that digital camera's are better for recording photographs and their information,for many future generations to view.Using a digital camera have your settings to print the date on the picture in the corner and then load them on to your computer into a site that you can get access to from any computer.That way if you computer goes down or after your death someone else can get to the pics.Make sure you give your log in information to someone that you trust or put it in your will.If you put the pictures into ancestry.com and have your site open to sharing then other people may view and print those pictures.You can do the same on a Facebook and mySpace accounts.
You can also type in additional information like the people names in the pictures,places and occasions.
Do you think this is a great idea? Do you record your info? What other sites do you suggest?
.However,myself,as well as many other people find old pictures of people,places and things that do not have any information on them,such as names,dates,places and occasions.
When I asked my late husband for pictures of himself when he was a child,he said that he did not have any because they were destroyed in a fire.In doing this research I have seen many times that pictures and records have been destroyed due to a disaster such as a fire or flood,just to name a few.
I am finding that digital camera's are better for recording photographs and their information,for many future generations to view.Using a digital camera have your settings to print the date on the picture in the corner and then load them on to your computer into a site that you can get access to from any computer.That way if you computer goes down or after your death someone else can get to the pics.Make sure you give your log in information to someone that you trust or put it in your will.If you put the pictures into ancestry.com and have your site open to sharing then other people may view and print those pictures.You can do the same on a Facebook and mySpace accounts.You can also type in additional information like the people names in the pictures,places and occasions.
Do you think this is a great idea? Do you record your info? What other sites do you suggest?1 person likes this
3 responses
@petersum (4522)
• United States
24 Jun 12
Well it sounds good, but how practical is it? Thinking about vinyl records, reel tapes, cassettes, eight track tapes, and the progression of audio media, I can't help feeling that we have already lost a lot and our photographs are gone the same way.
What will be the future media? CD's are already out, DVD's rapidly giving way to blueray, memory cards keep changing, etc.
And then the future of the Internet! Probably the biggest unknown ever. It's already overloaded and close to being obsolete. Next generation Internet?
Add terrorist activity, government censorship, etc., and the Internet doesn't look too healthy!
I don't know if our offspring will ever see us!
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@petersum (4522)
• United States
24 Jun 12
Well I wish you all the luck in the world. But emails might not help the generations ahead and even today, the disturbing trend of viewing the internet on tiny phone screens doesn't bode well for high definition photographs.
With the declining amounts of rare earth elements, it is even unclear if future generations will have any display screens at all.
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@dfollin (25343)
• United States
25 Jun 12
No,I am not saying send them by email.
Thanks for wishing me luck.
@purplealabaster (22091)
• United States
25 Jun 12
I would definitely not feel comfortable having that sort of information on the Internet, and I would not be happy if one of my relatives put up a bunch of pictures of me and my children, especially if they were labeled, without my permission.
That being said, my parents have a bunch of photographs that they have labeled, and many of them are in photo albums. Some of them are still in boxes waiting to be put in the photo albums, but they are labeled on the backs, so the information is available, even if they are not in the albums. I think that this is a wonderful way to keep the pictures, although you do have a point that fire or flood or something like that could destroy them. On the other hand, a CD or memory card, etc., would also be destroyed by fire or flood, so there is not a lot that can withstand a natural disaster.
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@dfollin (25343)
• United States
25 Jun 12
Hi puplealabaster,I don't think you paid full attention to what I wrote,I said to put them on the internet sites and only give access to someone that you trust....therefore they are not there for everyone to see.
That is great that they have all those pictures documented with the correct information,but yes they can be destroyed by fire or other natural disaster.And a computer or CD/DVD,memory card can also be destroyed.
Also,CD/DVD and memory cards can turn obsolete too,like 8 tracks,cassettes and real to real movies and VHS's.Soon as a previous mylotter also replied that all CD's will be replaced with Blue Ray.Personally,also I have lost both polaroid and 110 camera's and well as undeveloped 110 film that is why I am saying they should be put on website's,private if you like.
@purplealabaster (22091)
• United States
26 Jun 12
Oh no, Dfollin, I paid full attention to everything that you said, and I understood it completely. You did say that you should put your pictures on a site and give the login information to someone that you trust - I never suggested that you did not say that. However, you also said that you could put the pictures on ancestry.com and have them open to sharing so that others could view and print them as well. In addition, you mentioned labeling pictures and putting them on Facebook and similar sites. I know that you can set your account to share only with friends on most of these sites, but that does not mean that everyone on your friends list should have access to them nor does it mean that one of your friends could not copy the picture and post it on his or her page, which allows many more people to be able to view it, even if the friend is cautious enough to only share with his or her friends.
@Kashidanga1971 (1354)
• Bangladesh
25 Jun 12
Yes follin many times I thought as you doing. We can preserve our photo in cyber space. Cyber space is the safest place where our photos will remain undistorted for years, centuries. Yes documentation is the key thing. We can put date, time and description. Not for only genealogical study but also for our satisfaction we can preserve our photgraphs in cyber space.
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@dfollin (25343)
• United States
25 Jun 12
Thanks for agreeing with me and I think you should get started preserving and documenting your pictures.....times 'a wasting,lol......Yes documentation is very important.
