deciding to get organized

I finally did it! Several weeks ago I spent several hours (28 to be exact) sorting my pictures online into years, occassions, months, family member etc. It took forever and I have actually been keeping up with it pretty good. My intention was to get them all in one place so I could back them up. Well tonight we were looking for a disk and came across several CD's with photos on them. Oh boy, now I need to go through them all. So needless to say I took on the project and went through several disks ensuring I don't duplicate pictures....... But FINALLY it is all (well almost) finished. All my photos are now backed up onto a flash drive - even though there are a few left to be sorted. All this stemmed from us losing some pictures of my son's 3rd birthday. How do you ever get those back? What do you do when they are gone? We managed to recover 11 of them out of about 40. At least there will be some for future scrapbooking and reference.

If you are looking to get your photos organized and want some pointers on how I did it, feel free to ask. I am always happy to share my techniques with everyone.