I wonder what will happen to these photos in an album with my father's photos. I treasure them but will following family think the same!
This is about 1917...
I hope they do. My grandmother had a heap of photos, stored in a biscuit tin. I used to love looking at them as a child. I often wonder what happened to them after her death. I wish I had them now. This is a wonderful, historical shot. Maybe if the family isn't interested you should donate them to a museum or something.
I’ve often wondered the same thing as Carole about my Nan’s photos too - I wonder where they went. I have boxes and boxes of my mum and Dad’s photos, and my own. My girls will never want to keep them all.
@maggiemae You’ve made me more aware that I need to pass on more of what I know about our family history. And also make sure my girls know the password to my Ancestry family tree!
I am sure someone in the family will be interested. I know my daughter will want my old photos of my childhood and that of my parents and grandparents and I have just scanned about 200 photos and then put them in a photobook using Albumworks.
I also do family history and so does David and we are in the process of adding to that story too as more ancestry information becomes available.
If we don't tell the stories, or record them in some way, they are lost. Young people often aren't so interested, but they are very interested when they get older.
This is an amazing photo for its historical perspective if nothing else! Is it a picture of someone you know or did that person take the photo? Either way it is definitely a treasure! Thanks for sharing with us
i hope that the next generation and beyond will treasure these photos. it would be sad if they don't. in one of our meetings, a couple of my officemates were saying they needed to free their house of clutter most of which were photos of their ancestors that they don't want or need and they want to put them in the bin. i told them to give the old photos to the local museum or library who one day might see the need to map out the town's history and inhabitants. apparently, their families have been in the same town for generations. those officemates are the generation below me. could you imagine, if they don't care, why should their children and their children's children care? sad.
@dkbarnett So true! Younger people are more impatient and less likely to listen to stories. Anyway I never heard stories, my father never talked about it!
I also do family history and so does David and we are in the process of adding to that story too as more ancestry information becomes available.