Partners & Resources
Welcome to our resource page! At Digital Legacy Studios, we’re dedicated not only to providing top-quality digitization services but also to ensuring you have access to the best tools and resources to manage and enjoy your digital media. These resources are intended to complement our services at DLS, helping you handle, store, and enjoy your digitized memories in the best possible way. If you have any questions or need more information on how these resources can be utilized alongside our services, please get in touch with us. We’re here to help you preserve your legacy.
A professional organization dedicated to helping people organize, manage, and preserve their photo collections. Partner with us to learn best practices and connect with experts for complex projects.
B&H Photo The ultimate resource for all photographic and video equipment. Whether you’re looking to buy new gear or need accessories for your digitization setup, B&H Photo has everything you need.
Mylio A powerful app that consolidates your photos into a single, organized library on your devices. Perfect for managing and viewing digitized memories, Mylio ensures your moments are always at your fingertips.
Permanent.org is a nonprofit digital preservation platform designed to safeguard photos, documents, videos, and historical records for the long term. Built for families, museums, and cultural institutions, it prioritizes data ownership, ethical stewardship, and permanence over traditional cloud storage.
West Hartford Printing Partner
The Smart TV App for Streaming Family Videos & Photos. Secure personal photo and video storage with unlimited streaming anytime. Watch instantly, protect your memories, and grow your collection from any device.
Recommended Digital Preservation, Storage & Family Memory Resources
Protect, Organize & Enjoy Your Family Memories for Generations
At Digital Legacy Studios (DLS), preserving family memories doesn't end with digitization. Once photographs, home movies, historical documents, and family collections have been converted into digital formats, choosing the right tools for storage, organization, accessibility, and sharing is an important next step. We've assembled a selection of recommended resources to help individuals, families, and organizations protect their digital collections, organize their memories, and enjoy them for years to come.
Whether you're managing thousands of family photographs, building a private digital archive, sharing home movies, or preserving the stories behind treasured possessions, these resources can complement the professional preservation services offered by Digital Legacy Studios.
Cloud Backup & Network Storage
Protect Your Digital Memories With Reliable Backup Solutions
Maintaining multiple copies of your digital photographs, videos, and important documents helps reduce the risk of permanent data loss. We recommend following the 3-2-1 backup strategy: maintain three copies of your important files, use at least two different storage media, and keep at least one copy off-site.
Backblaze provides automatic cloud backup solutions designed to protect computer files, photographs, videos, and personal documents. It is a practical option for maintaining an off-site backup of important digital media stored on supported computers.
pCloud — Cloud Storage & File Sharing
pCloud offers cloud storage, file synchronization, and sharing capabilities that allow families to access their digital collections across devices. It can store photographs, videos, documents, and other important personal files.
UGREEN NASync DXP4800 Plus — Network Attached Storage
The UGREEN NASync DXP4800 Plus is a four-bay network-attached storage (NAS) system that provides centralized storage for large digital collections. A NAS can be valuable for families managing extensive photo libraries, home movies, and multigenerational archives who want greater control over their digital files.
Network storage is not a substitute for independent backups, so an additional off-site backup is recommended.
Family Photo Organization & Digital Galleries
Keep Your Family Photographs Organized, Accessible & Meaningful
After digitization, the next step is creating a digital photo collection that family members can easily navigate, search, and enjoy.
Permanent.org — Digital Legacy Preservation
Permanent.org is a nonprofit digital preservation platform designed to help individuals, families, and organizations preserve and share important digital materials. It offers tools for creating digital archives, documenting family history, and passing meaningful records to future generations.
Mylio Photos — Digital Photo Organization
Mylio Photos helps organize photographs and videos from multiple devices and storage locations into a unified library. Its photo management tools make it useful for individuals and families with extensive digital collections spread across computers, smartphones, external drives, and other storage systems.
Picture Party by Myseum — Private Family Photo Sharing
Picture Party by Myseum offers a way for families and groups to collect and privately share photographs and videos from special occasions. It can be especially useful for family gatherings, reunions, weddings, celebrations, and other events where multiple people are contributing memories.
Home Movie Streaming & Family Video Showcasing
Bring Your Digitized Home Movies Back to Life
Transferring videotapes and film reels into digital formats is only the beginning. Modern viewing platforms make it easier to revisit family milestones, celebrations, vacations, and everyday moments captured decades ago.
Projector — Personal Home Movie Streaming
Projector is a personal video streaming platform designed to help families organize, watch, and share their home movies on compatible televisions and devices.
For families who have digitized VHS tapes, Hi8 recordings, MiniDV tapes, or other legacy video collections, Projector offers an accessible way to enjoy those memories without searching through folders of individual video files.
Preserving Family Heirlooms, Objects & Their Stories
Document the Stories Behind Meaningful Possessions
Not every family memory exists as a photograph or video. Many important stories are connected to physical objects, inherited possessions, artwork, collectibles, and personal heirlooms.
Artifcts — Digital Documentation of Family Heirlooms
Artifcts helps individuals document meaningful possessions by connecting photographs, descriptions, stories, and historical information to physical objects. It can be particularly useful when organizing family estates, documenting inherited belongings, preserving personal histories, or preparing to pass treasured possessions to future generations.
Building a Long-Term Digital Family Archive
Digital Legacy Studios encourages clients to think beyond individual storage platforms and establish a sustainable preservation strategy.
A well-managed family archive typically includes:
A professionally organized master digital collection.
Clearly labeled folders and meaningful descriptive metadata.
A reliable local storage device or network-attached storage system.
An independent off-site or cloud backup.
Accessible galleries or viewing platforms for family members.
Periodic checks to confirm that important files remain intact and accessible.
While these third-party resources provide valuable tools, the most important consideration is maintaining ownership, independent backups, and long-term access to your original digital files.
Need Help Organizing or Preserving Your Digital Collection?
These recommended resources are intended to complement the professional digitization, photo organization, and archival preservation services offered by Digital Legacy Studios. Whether you're preserving a few generations of photographs, consolidating an extensive digital photo library, or managing a large family estate archive, we can help develop a preservation strategy tailored to your collection.
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Serving families, businesses, museums, historical societies, and institutions throughout Connecticut and beyond.
Contact Digital Legacy Studios to discuss your digital preservation and family archive needs.