Another tiny box came to us at Christmas, this one from Tom’s parents. It contained a USB flash drive of 1700 photos and documents related to their family history. I can only imagine how daunting it was for the two of them to take on that project: going through photos, reading documents and letters, and scanning/cropping all their choices.
I can’t even manage to get my solo stuff organized, and I also have many things relating to my parents and our family genealogies. I did get my parents’ home movies onto VHS tapes for everyone once (siblings, nephews, nieces, sister-in-law), and I have no idea if anyone watched or kept them. And now the original films are gone, and we need to find someone who can move our lone tape to something more tech-updated, if the VHS will even play.
Tom has saved all his family material to his computer, and I hope he and his siblings, who received their own flash drives, enjoy journeying through their family’s near and distant past.
I have two favorite documents – a 1919 pic of my great grandmother and a record of her father’s death cert showing he died on a prison work farm of malnutrition while serving time for … wait for it…. MURDER
It’s in my blood.
Those are the ancestors that make genealogy fun, right?
I wish I could find an article on the who what when where’s?
I don’t blame you. You’re the sleuth!