Now is a Good Time to Plan Off-Season Photo and Document Preservation and Sharing Projects

The summer months always seem a bit busier than other seasons of the year.

Families travel, vacation, attend reunions, and participate in a broad range of other seasonal pleasures with friends and extended family. The end result is likely an increase in the many photo images that are already on the shelf or in the computer, and the number of photos that you hope to organize and share someday. Families may not have time to take on a major photo organizing and sharing project during the hectic summer. However, thinking about your off-season project goals now can be helpful later.

As you capture memories of a trip, you may think about how to best caption and arrange a photo book to tell the story of the trip. Keeping a short journal of the trip may be helpful. As you attend reunions, you may want to talk to other family members about how to coordinate the sharing of one-of-a-kind photos held by others. You might find out that a particular family member has a growing interest in starting a genealogy project, and another is already interested in organizing and sharing extended family photos. A family discussion of such things can lead in interesting directions.

Volunteers at community historical societies are often quite busy with summer season fund raising fairs, extended collection viewing hours, and perhaps building or display renovations.

However, chances are that volunteer interest and participation are at a peak, and some discussions about off-season projects can be very fruitful.

When extended family and historical society member interest in photos and other images is at a peak, establishing some preliminary photo and document preservation and sharing project plans for the off-season can provide some momentum into the slower off seasons.

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