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What I Could Have Done Differently to Save My Family History from Disaster

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What I Would Have Done Differently To Save My Family History from Disaster

December 26, 2017 By Shastina Leonard

This year has been a rough one for memories around the world. We have seen natural disaster after natural disaster – tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, and wild fires –…

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The Journey of the Pixel, Part 2: Importing Into Lightroom

October 9, 2017 By Karin Van Mierlo

Just about two weeks ago, my colleague and friend, Photographer Karin Van Mierlo kicked off the journey of the pixels with her guest post on file formats and resolution.…

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In Digital Organizing - Digital Asset Management/ Editing Digital Photos/ Guest Bloggers/ Metadata/ Photography/ Printed Photos

The Journey of the Pixel, Part 1: Resolution and File Formats

September 26, 2017 By Karin Van Mierlo

In the family history world, we focus a lot of our attention on metadata – but the “storytelling” (IPTC) metadata gets a little more attention than the technical “EXIF” metadata,…

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the top 10 family photos to take every year

In Creative Photo Projects/ Genealogy & Family History/ Guest Bloggers/ Scrapbooking with Photos/ Storytelling with Photos

The Top 10 Family Photos You Must Snap Every Year

February 14, 2017 By Emily Supiot

Now that the new year is in full swing, you’ll want to start planning out your family photos for the coming year! Planning. Memories. What? Yep, you heard me right. There…

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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!