Capturing your family stories can be challenging. Try enlisting help from other family members and close friends with this part of your photo organizing project.
Tip #17
Gather Memories From Family and Friends
Writing narratives for your photo collection might seem like an overwhelming task but if you ask your grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and close friends to share their stories from those moments captured on film, this task could become a lot easier and maybe quite enlightening. Here are some ideas to help you get started:
- take notes on your phone or computer and save the narratives with digital copies of your photos
- make audio recordings of your family’s stories which can be saved along with photos
- ask family members and friends to view old home movies and record their conversations while watching the movies
- use the timelines you created to help prompt people’s memories when viewing photos
One advantage of gathering memories from family and friends is that they are each going to have their own perspective of an event or a person they knew and loved. For example, if you show family members a picture of a reunion picnic that took place in 1988, some people will remember that event through the eyes of a child, other’s will focus on what was happening in the world at that moment, and some family members might only recall what the weather was like that day. When you gather all of these different accounts together, it will give you a multi-dimensional picture of that day that you wouldn’t have gotten from mere facts like the date and location of when the photo was taken.
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