Webinar: Unlock the Shoebox: Digitizing and Organizing Your Family Photos
Speaker: Maureen Taylor & Nancy Desmond
When: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at 8:00pm Eastern
Program Description:
Are you sitting on a stockpile of old family photos and mementos that you’d love to digitize but you just aren’t sure how to start such a massive project? Do you have a bounty of digitized images but aren’t quite sure where/how to organize them or how to add details that will be saved as metadata? This session will provide tips that can help you tackle your digitization project with greater efficiency and will also provide guidance on organizing your files and adding details as metadata.
Speaker Bio:
Nancy Desmond is an entrepreneur with a background in technology marketing and product development. She is chief memory officer and co-founder of MemoryWeb, a photo organizer that makes capturing metadata easy for family historians.
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.
VGA Members can register for this webinar via the Zoom link in the Upcoming Webinars area of the Members Center. Please contact info@virtualgenealogy.org if you have any questions.
