I am very lucky to have inherited two family photo albums, one belonged to my paternal grandmother, the other to her mother, my great-grandmother. The later album nearly got thrown away by my mother, after all, it was not her family, but I rescued it about 25 years ago.
Thank goodness my father had had the sense to visit his very elderly aunt in a nursing home and ask her to name as many of the people as she could. These little scraps of paper are still tucked into the spaces between the photos, but many say 'Unknown' or Don't Know This One'. The old Aunt referred to everyone's relationship to my father, so I had to be careful when adding to the Family Tree. I discovered the identity of more of them by taking out from the album very carefully, and looking for names on the back. Many had names, some had dates. Several of the females were wearing lovely lace collars and caps. Then I took print photos of each album page with the bits of paper in. Lastly I scanned every photo of every known relative and saved with their name as the File Name. Any loose photos I held onto card sheets with minuscule bits of blue-tack (don't know USA name for this) and had them colour-photo-copied, oblivious of the cost. This, although most were sepia or black and white, makes them look much better than ordinary B/W photo-copies. Then I put these into plastic folders with each photo named. I did theme-pages with all the photos in date order or any one person. This looks good. Three years ago I sorted all the family photos into piles of different families and put each into a labelled shoe-box, ready to mount in special acid-free photo albums. However, other things came between me and my project, and the photos are still in the shoe-boxes and the albums empty. Next winter's project - I hope. All this has made me very close to my ancestors, I feel I know them and somehow, that they know me. Angela Thompson, Worcestershire UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
