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That is the single biggest problem with digital photography. How to keep them long term. I have many boxes of photos from my childhood, my parents childhood and even my grandparents childhood. I scanned them and put them on my Ancestry.com page. Now any relative that wants them can find them online. I have even had distant relatives I had never know about send me a thanks for the photos.
As far as keeping your photos long term, there are not many good options. The best is redundant computer hard drives. A RAID system. Those are usually expensive and suck up electricity all the time.
One other option is "the cloud" but if you have to pay a fee for that storage for the rest of your life, and most important have a good way to store the password and log on information and the web site itself. How will your kids get to that site in 30 years?
Good old analog is the easiest way. Make a high quality print and pass them out to all the relatives.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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