Feeling overwhelmed by boxes of family history photos? This presentation offers a guilt-free, minimalist system for organizing, prioritizing, and digitizing your physical photo collection—perfect for researchers with limited time, small spaces, and sentimental attachments. Learn the "A/B/C" sorting method and the "3-Question Gatekeeper Test" to select photos that provide clear visual evidence, validate records, and expand your family tree. Preserve your ancestral stories and reclaim your home without losing the memories.
Joy Reddicks is a Certified Photo Manager and the founder of Photo Management with Joy. As her family genealogist and storyteller, she understands the importance of photos in telling family history. She specializes in helping genealogists turn photo chaos into a well-organized visual legacy. Focusing on empathetic strategies for sentimental keepers, Joy teaches practical, space-saving techniques that enable family historians to use visual assets as sources to discover, preserve, and share their ancestors' stories.