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Kids and Family History: Why The Connection Matters

December 18, 2018 By Anica Guntur

In our household, photos are a part of our daily lives, and as a parent I’ve always felt like it’s important to share what I know about my heritage…

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Key Photographer Tips for Storing Old Family Photos

In Archiving/ Beginner Photo Organizing/ Genealogy & Family History/ Negatives & Slides/ Organizing Prints/ Photo Backup & Safety/ Photo Disaster Prevention/ Photography/ Printed Photos

Key Photographer Tips for Storing Aged Photos Safely

March 6, 2018 By Michael Schacht

Storing your precious family photos properly is key to having them last for generations. Especially if you don’t have the time to scan them, or the money to outsource…

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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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In Beginner Photo Organizing/ Creative Photo Projects/ Digital Organizing - Digital Asset Management/ Digital Photos/ Genealogy & Family History/ Intermediate Photo Organizing/ Metadata/ Organizing Digital Photos/ Photo Organizing Workflow

Color-Coding Fun, Part 2: Customizing Your Folders on a PC

February 6, 2018 By Caroline Guntur

In the last blog post, we talked about how to color folders on your Mac, so that you can have a great visual organizing system. Today, we’ll be going…

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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

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!