Sort safely
Work through photographs in manageable groups while preserving original order, envelopes and album context.
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PRACTICAL GUIDE + WORKSHEETS
Heirloom Photo
Organization Guide
Turn boxes of photographs into a protected, searchable family archive—without losing the stories that make them matter.
SAFE SORTING WORKFLOWSCANNING RECIPEFILE-NAMING SYSTEMPRINTABLE WORKSHEETS
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WHAT'S INSIDE
A practical path from photo box to family archive.
This guide walks you through protecting, sorting, identifying, digitizing and preserving family photographs without stripping away the context that gives them meaning.
It also gives you a repeatable system for naming files, recording what you know, backing up your digital archive and deciding what to do next.
Capture the story
Record who, what, where, when and why—along with how confident you are in each identification.
Create durable IDs
Connect physical photographs to their digital copies with consistent identifiers and inventory fields.
Digitize once, well
Use practical scan settings and keep preservation masters separate from everyday access copies.
Name and describe
Build sensible filenames, folders and metadata while keeping facts separate from inference.
Preserve the archive
Use backup and physical-storage practices, then put the included four-week plan and worksheets to work.
THE WORKFLOW
Six steps. One manageable system.
You do not need to identify every person or scan every box at once. The guide is designed to help you make steady, useful progress.
01Protect02Gather03Sort04Identify05Digitize06Preserve
“Progress beats perfection. An approximate decade is useful; ‘unknown’ is honest data.”
FROM THE HEIRLOOM PHOTO ORGANIZATION GUIDE