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[quote=Anonymous]Don't throw away any photos!  (Sorry, I'm a historian.)

I would scan all the photos.  If there is information on the back of the photo, then scan both front and back.  Save the photos with a descriptive name.  Store them in multiple places and formats.  You could then put them on a private flickr site, or something similar, and ask the rest of the family to help with tagging.  If you all get together for the holidays or family reunions, have a computer set up so that people can look at the pictures together.  People working together often remember things/people that individuals do not, and the more tech savvy can help the less tech savvy.  You can get the young people in the family to do the computer stuff, while the older people talk about the pictures.

In terms of dividing up the actual photos, I think that will be much easier to do in person, where you can just sort and negotiate.  You could have everyone look at the online photos and tell you which originals they want, but I think that would be much more time consuming and complicated.

If you save the photos on CD, choose a CD labelled "archival quality" and know that even those CDs often don't last more than 10 years.[/quote]

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