Would appreciate recommendations for online photo sharing

[oftheforest]

I'm working on my genealogy and find that I am the only family member with old family photos. I would like a way to privately share the pics from the Internet (not facebook or other social app). I've researched the different programs and apps, but I'm more interested in personal experiences. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.

[LakeArenal]

1. I'm not particularly savy

But Post-image is easy for me.

[Sherman A1]

5. Yup

Just got turned on to it by a gaming buddy and it works for me.

[Adsos Letter]

2. Flickr has a setting to limit who can see your photos.

There are settings for “Family,” “Friends,” and “Friends and Family.”

You may post up to 1,000 images without charge.

Are you looking for something more along the lines of Dropbox?

[rzemanfl]

3. You can put the images in Google drive and share them with

folks who have a Gmail address.

[csziggy]

4. I've used WordPress but for family pics, I went a different route

Which is really a blogging application but also lets you do photo albums, load photos into your posts and share them. WordPress will offer hosting of your blog for a pretty reasonable price or maybe free for smaller sites. Plus there are a lot of other sites that provide the WordPress platform that will host your site.

In the long run I found that complicated. I use a program called jAlbum which creates HTML pages. Then I upload those to my website with FileZilla, an FTP program. These days having a privately owned website is not that hard or expensive and the advantage is that you keep ownership of all your content.

I used Go Daddy to register my domain (back in the very old days) and a company called Lunarpages to host the site. I'm at the very bottom of their tier, just basic webhosting, no ecommerce or anything. I get my own domain name, my own email addresses, and don't have to worry about companies using my content for their own purposes.

I have a LOT of family pics up on my site - I'll PM you the URL. With jAlbum you can add captions, structure the albums into various groups with sub-albums, let people add comments, and more. It's pretty simple to use. The only complaint I have is that I lost the formatting for individual albums mostly through my carelessness and it just hasn't been worth it to go back and re-do the albums that changed.