Friend,

I’ve spent 36 years preserving family photo collections, and I’m seeing something most people overlook. We automatically back up our phones and panic if we lose even a week of digital photos.

But the only analog photos of childhood — 35mm slides of parents when they were young, home movies of grandparents from decades ago — are usually sitting in boxes somewhere in the house. Just one copy. No backup.

Every day, I hear the horror stories. A pipe leak, a weather disaster, relocating, or just cleaning out a parent’s home. Without digital backups, all that history is at risk.

Everyone protects their digital life. Very few protect their physical photo history.

Friend, most people assume those boxes of vintage snapshots are safe. They aren’t. I can explain why.

Contact: Mitch Goldstone, Chief Photo Archivist & CEO, ScanMyPhotos, 7 Corporate Park, Irvine, CA 92606, (949) 474-7654, ext. 111.