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The Pixologist's Guide to Old Photos,
Genealogy & Saving Your Family History 

(September 2023)

Start your family history journey with your old photos! 

Uncover the secrets of your old photo collection and see how the clues contained within old albums, bins and boxes may help you start your family’s genealogy journey. If you have an unmanageable number of old photos and a desire to get your family’s history preserved, this guide is for you!

A Simple Guide to Creating a Photo Estate 
(January 31, 2020)

Preserve your family legacy today! When you are gone, what will be remembered of your life? How will your stories be told? What legacy do you want to leave behind? Just a financial legacy or inheritance? When people consider leaving a financial inheritance to their family, they often don’t realize how quickly that inheritance may disappear. It’s time to consider a different kind of legacy planning.

Creating a photo estate provides a very special legacy. A legacy where the net worth of our lives is collected, preserved and passed on to future generations.Learn about the importance of photo estate planning in this book. You’ll get tips on organizing and scanning old photos, slides, negatives, film and video along with memorabilia and documents. Get step-by-step instructions on how to create a photo estate and to ensure it stands the test of time.With many years of photo organizing and photo estate planning experience, Bartelt provides examples, photos and downloadable tools to help anyone create their own photo estate.

The Pixologist's Guide to Creating a Memorable Photo Book 
(March 1, 2019)

Would you like to create a photo book and have some professional guidance?

Your life is full of wonderful events, moments, and people. You want to celebrate these with a memorable photo book. Have you been looking for ideas, tips, and ways to bring your memories together in a keepsake book?

Pixologist Mollie Bartelt shares her system of creating a photo book from start to finish. Bartelt has helped create hundreds of photo books for her clients and provides a colorful, step-by-step, easy-to-use guide to bring it all together.

From photo book jargon to choosing a print provider, you'll find all you need to know about photo books. Enjoy examples, tips, and inspiration to get great ideas on how to create a beautiful, memorable photo book.

The Pixologist's Guide to Organizing and
Preserving Your Family Photos 
(November 1, 2018)

Organize your family photos once and for all. Are you ready to tackle those old boxes, envelopes, and albums of photos, but need a plan of attack? Once the photos are organized, then what? 

Following the user-friendly system developed by professional Pixologists, you can sort those photos, remove duplicates, and organize them in a way that makes them easy to find when necessary.

Then scan to preserve those photos and combine print photo scans with digital photos from your phone and other systems to keep them safe should disaster strike. Soon you'll be able to pass on your family stories, traditions, and values to future generations.

A Simple Guide to Tackling Your Digital Photo Mess:
Using Windows 10 
(April 19, 2017)

A Simple Guide to Saving Your Family Photos 
(September 5, 2016)

Organize your printed photos once and for all.

Ready to tackle those old boxes, envelopes and albums of photos, but need a plan of attack? .

Written by a photo organizing pro, this book covers important questions including:
- Which photos should I keep?
- What do I need to sort my pictures?
- How do I make sure my photos are safe?

Follow the system to save your photos and pass on your family traditions and values.