Save or Toss ?
Jul 4, 2022 21:15:01 #
Hereford wrote:
I had about 4,000 older to really old family photos and had the same dilemma. I chose to add them to my family tree on "ancestry.com" as my best chance to save they for posterity. That way others who might be interested can drop in and see what these old ancestors really looked like. My kids don't really care about old photos & portraits and the grandkids can't get beyond selfies.
Great solution!
Yep the hard truth is the kids don't care about old photos.
Jul 4, 2022 21:17:53 #
DirtFarmer wrote:
The oldest family print I have comes from around 1860.
ha ha i think the oldest one I have is 1960. LOL. Just kidding. It's more like 1940.
Jul 4, 2022 21:19:09 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Yes, it was nice of people in the old days to write the names of the people on the back of the picture. Adding the date was nice, too.
Oh yes that helps greatly in identifying ancestors.
Jul 5, 2022 12:27:09 #
Hereford wrote:
I had about 4,000 older to really old family photos and had the same dilemma. I chose to add them to my family tree on "ancestry.com" as my best chance to save they for posterity. That way others who might be interested can drop in and see what these old ancestors really looked like. My kids don't really care about old photos & portraits and the grandkids can't get beyond selfies.
That is good for a 'short term' solution. The problem is that websites are ephemeral. They might last 20-50 years, but eventually they either die out or change format or in some other way become unusable. Even historical websites. I bookmarked several websites of historical interest in the '90s but I can't find them today.
This is not meant to discourage use of something like ancestry.com. It is just to point out that you need to pursue other solutions at the same time.
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