Share your old family photos and earn money.

Share your old family photos and earn money.

Genealogists are very interested in your old family photos and sharing old photos is actually a great way of earning money.

If you have some old photos of you great grandparents or their parents or siblings you can make a genealogist very very happy by sharing the photo. Well any old photo from 1950 or before that will make historians and genealogists happy. By making a public digital copy and sharing it with the rest of the world you have helped saving a small piece of our world’s history.

Make a scan of your photo in a good quality, 300 dpi (pixels per inch).
Make an account at http://www.shareapic.net and upload your photos.
At shareapic you can get a piece of code that you post in forums. When posting this code in forums your photo will be shown as a thumbnail.
Every time someone clicks at your photo you will earns a small amount of money at Shareapic.net

Pictures of places, celebrities and groups of people are some of the photos that make the best income, because people would like to have a closer look at these photos.

If you do not have any old photos, then ask you family for photos. Most elderly people have some old photos in their drawers or maybe on the attic.
Make sure to get as much info of the picture as possible and make sure that you have the right to public the photos.
The information about the photo can be the people’s names, date of the photo, place, event or some other story related to the photo.
You must add the photos information everywhere you publish it. This will make more people interested and you will be sure to save your piece of history.

Even though you are doing this to earn money, you will be doing a lot of people a huge favor. There might not right away be any one that thanks you for sharing  but it is just a matter of time before some finds out that you have posted a photo of their distant relative or maybe a photo of a the place where someone’s great grandparents grew up.

You can make a search on Google to find great places to post your thumbnails. Here are a couple of examples.

Forums for posting old genealogy related photos:

http://www.genealogyforum.co.uk/forum/index.php

http://genealogy-forum.net/phpbb/index.php

http://www.armeniangenealogy.org/forum/index.php

http://oldphotoforum.com/

Have fun when earning money and pleasing the world with your photos.