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Cloud Storage for Family Historians: How to Choose the Right Tool Without Compromising Your Photo Legacy

January 9, 2026 By Caroline Guntur

Cloud storage is not your photo system. Learn how family historians should choose cloud storage using a preservation-first framework—plus the top options that truly protect your photo legacy.…

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Metadata for Genealogy, Part 5: How to Choose between Multiple Languages in Your Family History Archive

September 22, 2023 By Caroline Guntur

In this final series post on metadata for genealogy, we consider how to choose between multiple languages in your family history archive. How do we decide what language to…

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Metadata for Genealogy, Part 4: Handling Photo Locations & Historical Border Changes

September 8, 2023 By Caroline Guntur

In our last post, we talked about the most important IPTC metadata fields to use in your family archive, and today, I want to go deeper into photo locations.…

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Metadata for Genealogy, Part 1: The Only Way to Prevent Metadata Inconsistencies in Your Family Photo Archive

July 21, 2023 By Caroline Guntur

Metadata for genealogy…ah, it’s a fun topic, isn’t it? What do we need to consider in our family photo archives? What naming conventions should we use and why? How…

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I'm Caroline, a Certified Photo Organizer, and I'm here to help you sort your stashes of memories, once and for all.

I live at the intersection of Family History and Digital Organization, so I teach people just like you how to organize and preserve their family stories and treasures, so that future generations can enjoy them too! You can read more about me here!

My company offers online courses, online workshops, and private coaching to help you get your ducks in a row! I invite you to book a Discovery Session to see how we can help you get organized!

Patricia P. Holler, Oregon
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In desperation about the hodgepodge of digital photos that were scattered around unorganized in my life, in July 2020, I found info about Caroline Guntur’s DPO PRO class. I signed up and devoted the early Covid-19 lockdown months to working through the modules offered in the class. The class videos were very informative and enlightening. I gathered thousands of digital photos from many locations — old phones, old computers, CDs & DVDs, plus emails & text messages. I went through them all and discarded many duplicates. I formulated a naming convention for pictures, that I have now begun using for all my digital files. Along the way, I had many questions which I emailed to Caroline. Her patience is phenomenal, and her always-attentive care and prompt responses helped me immensely. I also learned so many useful things in this class that were not directly related to organizing photos. For example, I now have an automated system that backs up my entire computer daily, in addition to a cloud-based backup system that I already used. For me, the cost of the DPO PRO class was a hefty financial investment, but it has already been worth every penny. Caroline is a wonderful teacher, and I think of her as a friend, though we have never met.

Bryn M., Sweden
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Caroline helped me finally organize 20 years of images, in various formats, scattered across multiple locations and devices - a task I had been wanting to accomplish for years, but was completely overwhelmed about how to begin. I had three iPhoto libraries and didn’t know which one was the most current or had the most images, plus I had images saved in several Dropbox folders, a few thumb drives, my computer hard drive, two external hard drives, an iPad and two years of images on my iPhone. I also had images in an Aperture library, a program that doesn’t exist anymore so I didn’t know how to access them. I’m a reasonably “techie” person, but reading online articles about how to begin sorting through them always left me feeling overwhelmed. None of the step-by-step articles applied to me and my specific needs...Finally, I have ONE image library for all my images, all organized so I can quickly find any image I want, and with the peace of mind that all my images are constantly backed up and secure... I never would have been able to figure out how to do this alone. It is the best money I have spent in a long time!