Do you keep photos of your relatives who have passed away, those still living, including your children, as well as memorable family events such as weddings, birthdays, etc, on your mantle or in albums at home, or are all your photos just online?

All the photos are on my computer, and periodically backed up on an external HD.

My photos and documents are on my computer and backed up to a drive and several cloud sites.

Copies on display around the house, either printed or scanned and printed. Physical originals going back decades safely stashed, digital originals on multiple PCs and backed up on external HDD.

If you have original photos on display, make sure the sun is not fading them. Check digital back ups regularly.

Copies of digital and digitised photos are kept on hard disks and memory cards. I never wipe memory cards when full and all photos are copied, not moved to, to hard disks. When hard disk are full, everything is copied to a larger hard disk. I no longer back up to CD-R or DVD-R, but I used to and used to back up to two or three as failure rate could be quite high.

All negatives and slides are stored in airtight boxes with a dessicant to control humidity and prevent mould growth. Not all have yet been digitised. I intend to digitise them using a Nikon slide copier attached to my camera. I used to scan with a film scanner years ago before when I was using film but I stopped using film over 20 years ago. A film scanner was painfully slow and everything required processing in Photoshop which was also time-consuming especially with the first dedicated Canon film scanner I had which was obviously designed for scanning negatives as it was so bad at scanning Kodachrome and other slide film.

I don't use the cloud as it is overpriced when you get beyond free space. Compare the cost of cloud storage with the cost of another hard drive. Also, a hard drive unlike Google photos does not reduce quality. Also consider Google photos. Its "unlimited photo storage" soon was revealed to be "unlimited at reduced resolution". It then became free up to 15GB until the 15GB got moved to Google Workspace and became along with Gmail and so on part of a combined 15GB. I can also remember one of the first cloud companies closing its service and giving people a week to download everything or lose it.

If anyone has old film they want to preserve as film, they should be aware that the humidity of the Japanese summer encourages the growth of mould on film and for that matter lens and camera sensors. Use airtight dry boxes.

My sister and I have slides going back to the 1950s from my father, plus our own from the 1970s, and family photos going back to 1914, inc family members in WW1 uniforms, and we are both trying to digitise them. We periodically share them with wider family members around the world, but fewer and fewer have any interest in people and scenes from the past.

As children, we remember many picture shows with family and neighbours, usually holiday images, with a slide projector, carousel and a portable, wobbly screen; laughing, joking, crying, along with food and drinks; nowadays it is just 2-3 people swiping silently and quickly through a smartphone.

Progress...

Lots of photos around the house.

Kids when they were kids, Parents, Grandparents and even Great Grand father.

And of us (wife and I) Wedding photo, travel pics from years ago, some friends pics and an assortment of others.

Visitors local and OS but esp local, never fail to say oohh, aahh and who's that, when was that, where was that and my favourite - わかいいいいい！ Wakaii!!!

No ancestor worshipping - just a bit of history.

One option is to get an Ancestry account and upload photos and details of known individuals. At some point in the future, their descendants may be pleased to see those photos and discover information about them.

All very worthy comments,but I chucked all my photos of nineties Nepal,Japan and Arctic Norway.

Just pop funny nonsequitual pics on Instagram for amusement of friends.

So glad we don't have to sit through interminably tedious home videos of weddings, holidays etc anymore.

I have TS so only have photos of myself.