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I use lightroom to organize my photos. I use a master file for each year and file by date. Some events I add a tag to the file name, but I usually can remember about when something happened. Plus I tag.

In lightroom you can add a brief statement to the photo which stays with it,ie "Emma's first day at Montessori and she wouldn't get out of the car." I tag them with: who, what when and where--plus the why IF I can. The tagging and information become part of the metadata of the file. Kayla Lameroux has excellent information on using lightroom. She encourages looking at yourself as the 'curator of a family museum' and believes that organizing and cleaning up photos will be of more value to future generations than scrapped pages. I have many very old pictures I inherited and scanned, but am not sure who the people are and have NO idea what the occasion was. Even a brief story with a picture makes it meaningful.

So I was inspired and scanned over 10,000 slides my father had taken. Oh my! Better to have a root canal. I was able to convert those to DVD for him to watch complete with music. Then via Kayla, I discovered scanCafe. You buy a box, fill it and in weeks they send back, scanned and color corrected images ready for you to tag and file. I've decided to go this route, and NOT spend anymore time scanning.

I use Backblaze to backup and I also upload to Flickr. For $25 per year you have unlimited full resolution storage and download capability. In LR4, there is a very easy upload to Flickr button, or Smugmug, Blurb, etc. I just like Flickr and keep all of my work locked down to 'family only"
HTH