Last year I posted looking for recommendations for digitizing services. I decided to go with iMemories. Excellent service all the way around. Top notch customer service, too. Highly recommended!

I wasn’t prepared to see some people who are no longer with us. Especially my favorite dog I’ve ever owned that passed in 1985. That one caused some dust to get in my eye. Here is a still form the video:

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Posted by TigerNutts

Louisiana

Member since Mar 2011

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Posted on 1/8/26 at 9:28 am to Spaceman Spiff

Absolute treasure. Makes me realize how lucky we are that we can capture so much now, so easily, and have it to look back on in the future.

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Posted by Spaceman Spiff

Savannah

Member since Sep 2012

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Posted on 1/8/26 at 9:43 am to TigerNutts

You have no idea. We didn’t record nearly enough and the 80s were about the time we started.

What’s really cool is seeing the old cars and stores

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Posted by mikelbr

Baton Rouge

Member since Apr 2008

49021 posts

Posted on 1/8/26 at 9:49 am to TigerNutts

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Absolute treasure. Makes me realize how lucky we are that we can capture so much now, so easily, and have it to look back on in the future.

I started taking digital pics of friends and family about 2003 and obviously kept going since then with smart phones.

One of the kind of sad but very neat things you can do with apps like Google Photos is use Facial recognition to go through photos(I have 100k+) and find pics of someone within a few minutes.
When I've had friends' loved ones pass away I'm usually able to find pics of the person in that collection. Then I can send to Walgreens to get the images printed and give to the family.

The saddest one I did was for a friend's son a few years ago. But they were so grateful for the small album I brought them after he passed. They hadn't seen or had forgotten about some pics of him I got when he was a toddler at a crawfish boil.

Technology can be pretty cool sometimes.