What tends to get in the way
- Decades of photographs, unsorted and unlabelled
- Stories that only you know
- Damaged and faded prints
What actually helps
A family photo album, with help
Photograph the old prints with your phone, let Google Photos brighten and repair them, then ask an assistant to write captions from what you tell it.
Step by step
- Photograph each print in good daylight, flat on a table.
- Open Google Photos, tap Edit, then Enhance.
- Tell an assistant who is in the picture and what was happening, and ask for a caption.
- Share the album with the family in one link.
Telling your story out loud
Speak your memories rather than typing them. Voice typing turns an hour of talking into pages you can edit later.
Questions to draw out a memory
Ask for questions about growing up in a particular decade. They tend to unlock things you had not thought about in fifty years.
Success stories
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real people will appear here as our community grows — and if you have one,
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