Personal Memories

• Keep a daily journal or a journal that you write in after each photographic event. Note the date, place, and people as well as any emotions, happy or sad happenings, or memories from the event. Jot down your thoughts. You don't have to use all of this information in a family scrapbook but it will be a good device to jog your memory when you do make the scrap book page.
• Keep a "snap shot" log with your camera. Each time you return the camera to it's storage spot, jot down notes from the snapshot session just completed.
• Tape recordings, recorder buttons and videotapes are great devices for recording the elder generation. Interview them at length and transcribe the notes for later.
• Keep computer text files in a word-processor program. Memories can either be verbose or simple; from rough notes to elegant essays. Keep track of the feelings behind the events. You can even import poems, quotes or images into the file for later use.
• Jot short blurbs down on sticky notes and attach them to the backs of photos as soon as they are printed.
• Never throw away your anual calendars or day planners. They hold a wellspring of information about the events of a year. Get in the habit of recording as much information about daily life as possible on a calendar and store the calendar with that year's photographs to help jog memories about dates, times, and events.

Article submitted Tuesday, April 08, 2008
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