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The Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Personal Storytelling

February 20, 2018 By Shastina Leonard

On this blog, we talk a lot about the tips and techniques for organizing your photos and memorabilia, but oftentimes, the underlying reason for that gets overlooked. When we take…

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

In Archiving/ Genealogy & Family History/ Guest Bloggers/ Photo Backup & Safety/ Photo Disaster Prevention/ Printed Photos/ Scanning Photos/ Video & Film

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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In Archiving/ Beginner Photo Organizing/ Digital Organizing - Digital Asset Management/ Digital Photos/ Editing Digital Photos/ Genealogy & Family History/ Intermediate Photo Organizing/ Organizing Digital Photos/ Photo Organizing Workflow/ Video & Film

8 Types of Memories You Can Delete From Your Photo Collection Now

November 14, 2017 By Caroline Guntur

Delete is a complicated word. But it’s an important word that we have to get comfortable with as the designated family memory keepers. Many of us, especially those of…

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In Archiving/ Beginner Photo Organizing/ Photo Management Software/ Project Management/ Recycling Media/ Scanning Photos/ Video & Film

Keep, Toss, or Recycle? What to Do with Your Outdated Media

April 11, 2017 By Caroline Guntur

If you’re like most people, you have stashes of old prints, film reels, VHS tapes, and audio cassettes in a box somewhere. Maybe they’re just forgotten…. 0r maybe they’re…

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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!

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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!