Old family photos: scan, date, restore and share

How to digitise prints, slides, letters and home videos, date a photo and recognise the people in it, restore what is faded, and share it with the family.

1. How to date an old photograph and find out who is in it

   The type of photo, the corners of the card, the photographer's stamp, the clothing: this is how you estimate roughly when an old photograph was taken, and how you find out who is in it.

2. Sharing family photos privately: the options compared

   A WhatsApp group, a shared album with Google or Apple, a private Facebook group or a place of your own: what each does well, where the catch is, and what happens to the photos when the person in charge stops.

3. Digitising home videos: VHS, Video8, MiniDV and Super 8

   The First Communion on VHS, the holiday on Video8, grandad's films on Super 8: why now is the time, what you can do yourself, what is better left to a service and how to store the tapes in the meantime.

4. Keeping and digitising old letters, diaries and documents

   A shoebox of letters, a grandmother's diary, newspaper cuttings and a photo album with sticky pages: how to keep them without damage, how to scan them, and when it is better to do nothing.

5. Keeping children's drawings and crafts without clutter

   Every week another drawing comes home. How to choose what stays, how to keep the rest as a photo, and how to store the best originals properly.

6. Old family photos online: copyright, privacy and AI editing

   May you put the studio portraits of your great-grandparents on the internet? Who holds the copyright, what do portrait rights say, and what should you know if you colourise or restore a photo with AI? General information for Belgium and the Netherlands.

7. Colourising old photographs: what works and what does not

   Colour does not make an old photograph true, it makes it closer. What a good scan is, where colour tends to go wrong, and how to pass on what your family knows.

8. Where do you keep the oldest photograph of your mother?

   Kept is not the same as findable, and findable is not the same as remembered. On the box, the folder, the cloud, and one photograph with a name and a year beside it.

9. How to digitise old photos: scan, photograph or use a service

   A box of prints, slides or negatives: which method suits you, which settings you need and how to avoid doing the work twice.

10. How to Organize Old Family Photos Digitally: A Step-by-Step Guide

    Boxes of old family photos are a treasure trove waiting to be unlocked. Learn how to digitize, organize, and preserve them so they last for generations.

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