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Metadata for Genealogy, Part 2: 8 Factors that Define Naming Conventions in Your Photo Metadata Strategy

August 4, 2023 By Caroline Guntur

It’s time to talk naming conventions! Recently here on the blog, we talked about exactly why we need to have a solid photo metadata strategy and document it for…

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In Advanced Photo Organizing/ Archiving/ Digital Organizing - Digital Asset Management/ Digital Photos/ Genealogy & Family History/ Metadata/ Organizing Digital Photos/ Photo Organizing Workflow/ Project Management

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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Using Metadata for Genealogy and Identifying People in Old Photos using Facial Recognition

In Advanced Photo Organizing/ Beginner Photo Organizing/ Digital Photos/ Genealogy & Family History/ Intermediate Photo Organizing/ Metadata/ Organizing Digital Photos/ Personal History/ Storytelling with Photos

ID Dilemmas: Who is the Person in that Photo?

May 3, 2022 By Caroline Guntur

It's a classic dilemma in the family history world. You find an old photos with a face you've never seen before, you see the family resemblance, bu...…

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The Benefits of Working on Family History Projects

May 22, 2020 By Clémence Scouten

As someone who has personally benefited many times over from telling family stories and working on family history projects, I know first hand what amazing realizations can come from…

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Patricia P. Holler, Oregon

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

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!