Photo album as an adult!

[Sammie2510]

My mum has piles of photos and photo albums with no dates, names or places. So when I had my son I printed dated and left little notes. It's a running joke through the family that my son has such a documented childhood. However I don't! I've got photos of me and family members and photos of school trips etc but they are all on random order. So my question is has anyone made an all about me album as an adult about themselves? I was thinking of doing 1 of just me (which I know I will add to when my parents leave me their photos) one of different family members so my son will know who's who when I'm long gone and one of just memories, school trips/nights out etc. Does this sound like a good idea? Or has anyone done something different? I want to keep the prints as they are already printed. Thanks

I think it’s a great idea. I also had photos of my childhood with no order/ context, although nowhere near as many as you probably have. What I did was create two photo boards which I hung on my wall, so the order of the photos didn’t matter as they were random. Might be another option for you

I'm doing this right now for the same reasons you mention. Brilliant idea. Sod anyone else.

Ah, this is such a satisfying thing to do. I also had a mish mash of pics of my early life. Early pandemic I ordered several matching photo albums and took it on as a big project, organising things by years, the table was covered. I love the finished product. I imagine keeping them by my bedside when I'm old so I can reminisce.

I think it is a great idea. My Dad did one for my 40th for me.

@dudsville have u got a pic of final product?
I was thinking of trying to years, but uncertain of ages for some of them. There are lots of me and my brother, so not sure if to actual just do 1 big album of me and family?

There's nothing really to show it starts with what seem to be the oldest pics and move up.

For my niece 18th, I gave her 'this is your life" photos. So it went across different sections of her life. From previous printed photo these were scanned and added in a digital folder, sorted month / year.

I've done albums / books for various people and added in an attached printed booklet on 90g printer paper with laminated sheets from and back and the paper secured inside it - so like picture 2 page 3 - group photo - back row l-r - taken x place - special occasion ? - memorable story from then on. All photos won't have stories but getting others to look through helps with adding to the story

It's such a lovely idea and years later you'll be so happy you did this! I have a photo album with random photos fom my childhood and there is no context for them, too, just some details in the pictures that can help define the year or the place and maybe bring some memories to remember other detals from that day. It's nice and fun to look through.

My parents also have tons of old photos some of which do have notes and names but others randomly don't. It was really a mess but we managed to structure it a bit.
If you have really old prints that are faded or a bit damaged you can digitize them and do some fixing or even colorizing. Here are some examples of best software to restore old photos- ams-photo-software.com/photo/best-photo-restoration-software.php (I'd recommend Photoglory from this list and Photoworks is also fine) or see if your local photo stores do that. Then you print them out and make a photo album while the originals remain untouched.

My eldest is 10. I have been meaning to do photo albums for years -!: going to start now!! Are photo albums better than photo books?? Should I do one per year?