Creating Your Own Family History: Transforming Your Digital Memories
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Most people do not think with the end in mind when saving their digital memories. What you do now, and how you save your digital memories and events, is your direct link with your future generations. The digital legacy that you create now is the way your children, grand children and eve your great grandchildren will view your life. It's important to have a system that helps people to view your accomplishments even when you're not there. They need to be able to make sense of your digital memories. First and foremost, let's go through the four steps you need: <br>1. Store everything in one place on your PC.<br>Centrally locate all of your digital memories in every format in one place, in one program on your computer. Your digital memory compiling system should allow you and future viewers to unravel your life on screen as it actually unfolded in reality. The best way to store things so that they are easily retrieved is to have a filing system based on a year-by-year and event-by-event structure.<br>2. Save it how it actually happens.<br>Save all of your memories for any given year in the one folder. Then any special event that occurs in that year should have all the digital memories of any format in this one folder. This means that when you or your children or grandchildren are looking at it, they only need to go to one place to find all the memories for any given event. This system is distinctly different to having your memories in different folders and different programs, with videos in one place and photos and journal entries in a different spot.<br>A simple example: You have a folder called 2007, and you have ten special occasions that year. One was titled your August 2007 European Holiday, and in your European Holiday folder you've got all of your photos, all of your videos, any recording files, invitations, blog posts, copied emails that you may have recorded or done for that event ? all in one place, easy to find.<br>3. Add incredible depth to your family history.<br>Look at all of the different things you can actually save. You could create a digital journal, copy blog posts into Word documents and save them, scan in invitations from weddings
About the Author
Tim Lassig is the creator of<br>Treasure Chest Software, a unique<br>software program specifically<br>designed to preserve all your<br>family history in a digital display<br>to protect it for you and your<br>future generations to admire. Tim<br>has taken digital technology and<br>morphed it into a life inspiring<br>range of tools to help you create a<br>digital legacy and family heirloom<br>for your future. Don't lose a<br>single memory! Easily preserve and<br>protect your family history today<br>at: www.preservemyfamilyhistory.com<br>Feel free to post, send this or use<br>it in your newsletter, but only as<br>it is.<br>Read more at Creating Your Own Family History: Transforming Your Digital Memories</a><br>View their website at: http://www.preservemyfamilyhistory.com<br>
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