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Find the Faces Faster: Why Facial Recognition Is a Game-Changer for Family Photos

Over the weekend, I uploaded around 2K photos to my Forever.com account. These were family photos, vacation images, and a catch-all of older photos. To speed up the process, I

Family Photos on Instagram | The Photo Detective

Family Photos on Instagram

Discarded and re-sold photos appear all over social media, especially Instagram. If you’re looking for a picture of your great uncle Hubert, it might turn up online. The genealogical community hasn’t

The First Class Picture - Guest Appearance on Extreme Genes Podcast

The First Class Picture – Guest Appearance on Extreme Genes Podcast

There's probably a picture of you in front of a school bus. Perhaps several. If you have children, I bet you've taken the same photo of them too. Recently I

Disaster Preparedness | There are four steps to a disaster planning process: prevention, preparedness, response and recovery. Most museums, libraries, and archives have disaster plans and you should too. | The Photo Detective

Disaster Preparedness

Many of us live in areas exposure to natural disasters such a hurricanes, tornados and earthquakes. While there is some predictability to weather fluctuations it is the unexpected events such

Messages on Ancestral Photos | The Photo Detective

Messages on Ancestral Photos

I love the messages our ancestors left on their photographs. There are arguments about who's who in different handwriting. Notes about loved ones. Captions that include who labeled the picture.

3 Ways to Weed Your Photo Collection

By now you’ve either watched an episode of the Marie Kondo series on joyful cleaning or know someone who has. My drawers are now full of neatly folded clothes. I get it.

A Convenient Place?

I have a story that will make you sick. Not literally of course, but as soon as I heard it my stomach flipped. We're all struggling with photo overload. Our

Old Maumer, 107 yrs.

Several years ago I purchased this image at a photo show. It called to me from a case. "Find my story." "Name me." So I bought the image intrigued by

Time Travel is Real (Sort of)

Name a show with time travel as a theme. I've likely seen it. A book with time as a plot. I've likely read it. There is something fascinating about the

A Box of Trouble

In the late 1970s, my mother decided to organize her pictures. It was way before acid and lignin free materials were readily available. In fact, product advertising was often misleading.

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