Welcome to Treasured Photo Collections
Do you want to have old photos restored?
Not sure of the best method to organize your printed photos?
Looking for a better way to search your Digital photos?
Welcome to Treasured Photo Collections
where we help you manage all your photo collection problems.
Do you want to have old photos restored?
Not sure of the best method to organize your printed photos?
Looking for a better way to search your Digital photos?
Welcome to Treasured Photo Collections
where we help you manage all your photo collection problems.
How to start: Organize old photos
How to start: Organize old photos
Always start with your oldest photos first. See if you can identify the individuals in the photos. Dating the photos through knowledge of your genealogy, the age of the individuals, and the styles you see them wearing. Be sure to look for visual clues in the background of your photo. Printed Photo Organization includes culling, organizing, and adding descriptions. This stage often takes a lot of time as you sort through thousands of photos more once. We offer one to one instruction in the basics of printed photo organization, selection and curating.
Tip #1 for Creating a Photo Collection
Tip #1 for Creating a Photo Collection
Photo Organization
Photo Organization
Not Sure How to Start!
Supplies Needed?
Sorting Method?
Storage ?
Sharing Solutions?
Not Sure How to Start!
Supplies Needed?
Sorting Method?
Storage ?
Sharing Solutions?
Getting started can be overwhelming, as it brings up more questions than answers! Let us help you get some of those questions answered and start you turning your photo chaos into your
treasured photo collection
Connection to the Past
Repurpose the Present!
Connection to the Past
Repurpose the Present!
I was thrilled to be guest on
The Change Zone
It gave me the opportunity to talk
about Possessions, Papers, and Photos.
I believe our connections to the past should be saved with stories, family history and of course the photos! But not all photos
are album worthy!
Life is about those we love,
sharing stories, and creating memories.
Photos are about those we love,
sharing stories, and saving memories.
Connect
Generations
of Families
curating
geneology, stories, and photos.
Creating searchable
cherished photo collections.
Our Mission ..... oh, and have fun doing it!
Our Mission ..... oh, and have fun doing it!
Photo Restoration
Photo Restoration
The restoration of an old photo can strengthen the connection to your family member in the photo. The original then can be archived to slow down any further deterioration. This allows you to display the new photo digitally, on canvas, or in a modern frame. The options are endless and only limited by your imagination. Old photo restoration services can also include colorization, sepia, or enhancement of the of your photo. A personal consultation will provide you with all your options.
Tip #2 for Creating a Photo Collection
Tip #2 for Creating a Photo Collection
Restore and Archived
Restore and Archived
Have you recently inherited
family photos, heirlooms
and memorabilia?
More and more people are dealing
with multi-generation collections.
Often containing family heirlooms, photos, and memorabilia going back
a 100 years or more.
Overwhelmed by all these
heritage items many family are left wondering how they can downsize and still
honour their family's past and preserve for the generations to come.
As experts in this field we can take any chaos and return to you a collection that you will find is organized, easily searchable and shareable collection.
Trained, Certified, and Experienced in Photo Management
Trained, Certified, and Experienced in Photo Management
Specializing in Multi-Generational Photo Collections
Specializing in Multi-Generational Photo Collections
Family Digital Collections
Family Digital Collections
Our number one recommendation is to have all important family's photos, tapes, and memorabilia digitized. We will photograph your family's heirlooms so their story can be added to your collection. This allows you to have an easy to search system using keywords, tagging events, facial recognition. Saved and backed up you share with family all over the globe. Don't lose your memories because they are stored on all media.
Tip #3 for Creating a Photo Collection
Tip #3 for Creating a Photo Collection
Digitization and
Media Conversion
Digitization and
Media Conversion
Do you have vintage photos that are
a mystery to you?
Let us follow the clues in your multi-generational collection to help you bring your genealogy,
stories, and photos together to create
a family photobook.
Every photo has a story just waiting to be told. You may be amazed at what you will discover.
The picture on the left is my grandmother, Hilda Elsie Bell, (nee Hanson) proudly displaying blooms from her garden. From the background we were able to figure out it was from the time she lived on Dodds Road in Headingley, MB. Now, thanks to this picture I have a photo to accompany that chapter of her story. The house dress she is wearing is also very typical of a 1940s dress worn on Sundays. Long sleeves, pockets, belted and hangs just pass her knees. I don't think she changed her hairstyle from the 1920s to the 1980s.
Born in Oslo, Norway on June 10, 1900 she came as a child to Canada and passed away December 30, 1987. Thanks to research, I was able to find the apartment where her family lived
at the time of her birth. I also have her government approved paper showing she had her vaccines as a baby along with other documents, acquired through censuses and vital statistics her story is slowly coming together. When I shared what I was doing with family I heard she was once a flapper!
Even the scandalous information that she was pregnant with my Uncle Jack when she got married was discovered. Something my mother didn't even know until after my Grandma Bell's death as we were working on her history. Something that by today's standard is very normal at that time would have been scandalous during the 1920s!
I was blessed to have her in my life and she was truly the matriarch or our family. I loved to visit her along with my mom on Sundays and I remember her living room library that extended across one wall and was mostly full of Harlequin Romances.
We Love Photo Mysteries!
We Love Photo Mysteries!
Karen Murdock
Certified Photo Organizer and
Professional Photo Collection Manager
The Original
Your Organized Friend
Karen Murdock
Certified Photo Organizer and
Professional Photo Collection Manager
The Original
Your Organized Friend
Do you believe, as I do, in the power of photos?
Growing up I knew my "Uncle Jimmy's story",
as did all my cousins. Uncle Jimmy became a prisoner of war captured on D-Day, he was executed two days later on June 8, 1944. My dad's 18th birthday. But, his mother, my grandmother, along with his four brothers (including my dad) and five sisters kept his story alive for us by sharing his story
displaying and sharing his photos.
Every family members home proudly displayed
a photo of Uncle Jimmy on the living room wall. Only 20 years old at the time of his death he has lived on in our hearts because of the power of stories, genealogy, and photos. That was the beginning of my passion for helping everyone organize and manage their photos.
Remember someday your photos will be
someone's heritage photos.
2020 - 2021 SuPearlative Awards
Entrepreneur of the Year
2020 - 2021 SuPearlative Awards
Entrepreneur of the Year
The SuPearlative Awards recognize special women for their gifts of integrity, kindness, determination,
success and tenacity.
The Owner of Treasured Photo Collections, Karen Murdock,
was honoured and humbled to win Entrepreneur of the Year
at a Gala held on November 13, 2021.
Special thank you to Joanna Starko, JoStar Interiors,
the Sponsor for my category,
Wolfe Cadillac Edmonton SuPearlative Trophy Sponsor,
Hillberg & Berk Pearl Sponsor, Gem Gallerie Nominee Gift Pendant Sponsor
and Dr. Haidong Liang, Executive Director for the Westend Senior Activity Centre for the beautiful Flowers.
ALWAYS a pleasure to work with Karen. My photos and treasures that are cherished by myself—are professional treated like "gold" by Karen and her staff too. This professionalism and heartfelt caring means the world to me. Thank you for everything.
Susie
Susie
We do not know how you did it, but we know you did it. Our family photo collection look great many thanks.
Paul
Paul
Your service, your professionalism, your kindness—goes way beyond being superb!!! I wouldn't trust anyone but you Karen and your team to have my most precious photos of my children and family in your hands!!! Thank you!!!
Bev
Bev
Coffee is always on!
Coffee is always on!
I want to create a photo collection!
I want to create a photo collection!
Treasured Photo Collections
106 - 200 Carnegie Drive
St. Albert, AB T8N 5A7
Serving: Alberta, Calgary, Edmonton
(780) 996-3583
Monday to Friday 10:00 am to 4 PM