Save the Family Photos: Scan, Organize & Share

A lifetime of pictures, finally organized, protected and shared, on whichever service you already use.

Shoeboxes in the closet, albums on the shelf, thousands of photos on your phone. Save the Family Photos turns that overwhelming project into a series of pleasant afternoons, one simple step at a time.

What's inside

• The plan in four steps: gather, scan, store and share
• Scanning made easy with your phone, a scanner, or a scanning service, plus the questions to ask before you mail anything
• Service by service: Apple iCloud Photos, Google Photos, Amazon Photos, Microsoft OneDrive and Dropbox, with a page index so you can jump to yours
• Organizing that sticks: albums by decade, naming faces, captions, and fixing the dates on scanned photos
• The two-copy rule so you never lose a photo
• Sharing with family: shared albums, digital frames and photo books
• The Shoebox Challenge: real progress in one hour
• Our honest take on which service is best for your kind of family

18 pages · Large print · Plain English · Instant download · Edition 2026

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