Tackle Your Family Photographs: 3 Simple Strategies to Get Past Overwhelm and Enjoy Your Photos

In this webinar, author and photo identification expert, Maureen Taylor, will talk about strategies for organizing your family photos including:

• The biggest challenges that get in your way for organizing images and why minimalists are wrong.
• Easy ways to climb that photo mountain and that includes her signature 5 questions for putting a name with a face.
• Metadata will help you keep track of all the new data. It sounds scarier than it is.
• Thinking of your collection as being two separate piles–vintage images and those taken in your lifetime. The two w’s of weeding and workflow are key to ending up with images you’ll be able to share with a click.

This event will be held on Zoom. Please register below to have the link sent to your inbox. A reminder email will go out the day before the event.

For more information, contact Ann Amaral at aamaral@newportlibraryri.org.

Maureen Taylor is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London and Canada.  She’s the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View and The Today Show (where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira).  She’s been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany’s top newspaper Der Spiegel, American Spirit, and The New York Times. Maureen was recently a spokesperson and photograph expert for MyHeritage.com, an internationally known family history website and also writes guidebooks, scholarly articles and online columns for such media as Smithsonian.com. She is a contributing editor of Family Tree Magazine.