Preserving Family Memories Through Photos with Philip Griffith

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📸 In this episode of the Steadfast Care Planning podcast, Philip Griffith joins to discuss preserving family memories through photo management. Philip shares his personal caregiving experience with his mother-in-law and how that motivated him to help families capture and preserve their stories through photos.

🤳 The conversation explores the challenges families face in organizing and managing old photos, especially as technology changes over time. Philip provides helpful tips and best practices for gathering family photos in one place, properly storing and archiving originals, digitizing images, and creating photobooks that tell a family's story through the generations.

🎥 Philip explains the three ways his company PSG Photo Solutions helps families manage their photos - through online courses, coaching, and fully outsourced services. He emphasizes the importance of having treasured family photos visible in the home to spark memories and conversations.

📹 Whether you want to tackle photo organization yourself or get professional help, this episode provides guidance on how to preserve your family's precious photographic memories, and your family history, for generations to come.
In this episode they covered:
🔹 The importance of capturing family stories and memories from the oldest living generation.
🔹 Challenges families face when preserving and managing family photos.
🔹 Overwhelming amount of photos, especially in the digital age.
🔹 Difficulty in identifying people, places, and events in old photos.
🔹 Rapidly changing technology and obsolescence of older media formats (e.g., slides, 8mm movies, VHS tapes).
🔹 Tips and best practices for preserving and managing photos.
🔹 Gather all photos, slides, movies, and memorabilia in one place (a "photo hub") plus many more tips and best practices.
🔹 How Philip helps families manage their photos and how you can find out more about his free courses, coaching, and fully outsourced services.

📷 For more information on Philip's photo management services, visit:

www.PSGPhotoSolutions.com

www.TheGreatDiscovery.com/PSGPhotoSolutions
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Chapitres

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Preserving Family Memories Through Photo Management (00:00:27)

3. Philip's family's experience with caregiving and what motivates him to help people manage their photos. (00:01:01)

4. Philip's family was able to learn more about their family history through the grandmother living with them. (00:01:52)

5. There are stories that will die unless we capture them. Using photos and photobooks and memorabilia to learn more family history and pass on the family stories to the next generation. (00:03:19)

6. Photographs may be worth a thousand words, but it's worthless if you don't have words to give you context. (00:03:32)

7. The problem with photos without labels, dates, names, events, makes the photos lose their meaning for future generations. (00:04:00)

8. AMADA Senior Care Commercial (00:04:38)

9. What challenges do families face when preserving and managing family photos? (00:05:08)

10. When you are inheriting things from your parents and your grandparents and their collection, the biggest challenge is that you get overwhelmed with the amount, and that's just gonna get worse with the digital. (00:05:24)

11. We're now taking the entire amount of photos that were taken in the 19th century when photography was developed. We take that now in two minutes. (00:05:35)

12. And then the other thing is just that challenge of the detective work of trying to figure out what's in there, who's in there. How does this relate to me? (00:05:50)

13. It would be much nicer if the 6th generation, 100 years from now, had five photobooks that told the story of each generation in that previous hundred years. Because in 100 years from now, they'll have half a million to a million images. (00:06:37)

14. The other challenge, is that technology changes. So your grandparents most likely had slides, possibly eight millimeter movies. Do you still have a movie projector? (00:07:18)

15. Digital is actually more ephemeral than a printed photo. A digital image will die from mechanical failure on your hard drive, or accidental deletion or, by the service going out of business, or you hit the delete key on your computer by accident. (00:08:40)

16. The Library of Congress used to say three copies. That was good photo management for years, especially with analog, you have three copies, two different media, and one off-site. Okay, well, with the digital age now, they're saying you need five copies. (00:09:30)

17. Tips and best practices for professional photo management. (00:09:55)

18. The first place to start is gathering everything together in one place. Start gathering everything together in one place. It's what we call the photo hub. (00:10:07)

19. Another thing that Philip can do for clients, is he can go through and go, "Hey, here's what you have." And sorting and going, "Where did they come from?" Organizing all the photos. (00:10:54)

20. You want to save photos in photo safe archival boxes because sunlight is actually the enemy of photographs. (00:11:40)

21. Another best practice is avoiding the basement, garage, and attic. It doesn't have to be wet for mold and mildew to start affecting photographs. And then they become a health issue. And if mold or mildew start growing on them, save them by digitizing. (00:12:40)

22. Photographs really need to live where you live, where it's temperature and humidity controlled. (00:13:08)

23. You want the most important photos up visible, because when you go through your house and your kids and you see pictures of your family, pictures of your parents, grandparents, extended family, it's psychologically healthy and uplifting. (00:13:24)

24. All sorts of different questions and questions that you might not expect are raised by photos. And they open up new conversations. (00:14:00)

25. Creating lifebooks with photos. (00:14:35)

26. The CLTC Commercial (00:15:36)

27. Philip also shares the various ways he helps families manage their photos, from free online courses to hands-on coaching and full-service solutions. (00:16:06)

28. Philip shares his contact website, www.PSGPhotoSolutions.com. and they can find my course on thegreatdiscovery.com/psgphotosolutions. (00:17:23)

29. Philip shares advice: Use your photos to tell your stories and make sure they'll last for generations and have them out visible for viewing and conversing about. (00:17:50)

30. Kelly and Philip agree to the importance of photos and say goodbye. (00:18:40)