try this site it's called Picasso: http://picasa.google.com/ Here is a link that might be useful: photo software

I have the same problem and have "kind of" targeted this year to get them organized. I'm not ready to scan or digitalize, but am ready to prioritize and downsize. I agonized over the many photos I also inherited upon the death of my mother--SHE had boxes from her aunts and cousins who died before--I had gone through a few with her in the last years of her life and so was able to identify some of her friends and relatives, but there are still gobs of old-time photos of folks I don't know and there is now no one alive who knows or cares--my mother did not even know all of them. Still there is some kind of emotional pull that someone someday may want to see that photo taken in World War II or whatever. What's helping me is that I can't imagine my kids would experience it so differently, and I expect they too would just feel the burden passed on--that vague what do I do with these? thing that nags you because "photos" are special and harder to throw away. So far my plan is to save and label, and frame, our closest relatives, make 2 or 3 albums of "my" relatives, particularly with my brother and I as children with them--as these would be the ones that mean the most to me and might be amusing to my kids. That way, they would not inherit boxes! I still have years of our own nuclear family photos in boxes and again, I hope to mainly "albumize" just a few shots of each event and thin out the rest to keep some photo box storage; occasionally someone wants a photo for a project.

Re saving photos from a first marriage, I have what might be an unusual story. Or maybe it's not all that unusual. My husband and his first wife had a huge, formal wedding. Elegant. When they divorced, she kept the photos. Many years later, when my husband died, she sent me a few of these pictures because she thought my children would like to see what their father looked like as a young man. By then all the acrimony had long since been put to rest, and we had become friends.

Yeah Ive seen them at Petsmart for 10$ and sometimes they go even lower then that! I would get one but between my cat, dog, fish, pond fish, budgie, and plants I don't think I'd have enough time to take care of one! Or have the room..... One day I shall get one! One day!