I took the time to scan the thousands of photos of my mom's. It worked out wonderful and I distributed flash drives to my siblings of all the photos. Many pf the originals were crumbling with age. The only thing I would do is to create a backup copy of all of them. I sorted them on my computer and put into files. Afterall, I don't need a copy of my sister's 5th birthday. When my computer crashed, all my photos and I do mean ALL the photos were scrambled. Now I have photos of my parents in college next to my son's birthdays. So I have to go back thru all of them and recatagorize them. Yikes.