"They're going bad... these photos in your basement are actually eroding." When Eric Allen inherited thousands of family slides, he realized the urgent race against time to save precious memories.  As a VP of Marketing at Ancestry, Eric knows all about encouraging people to preserve their family stories. But, his grandfather’s vast collection of deteriorating photos made it deeply personal. Now a passionate digital preservationist, Eric discovers that every image holds a story worth saving – from mysterious strangers in Hawaii to relatives who died too young to share their own tales. His mission to rescue these visual time capsules shows how technology can bridge generations and keep family stories alive.

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