jerryc41 wrote:
How many times have you seen old pictures of unidentified people that no one in the world cares about? At the time, we think these pictures are important, and at the time, they are. After about two generations, pictures become landfill because no one cares about them.
Now, if you have a very large family, and someone who can catalog and preserve all those family photos and make notes about them, maybe they'll be worth keeping and passing down to future generations.
I have over a dozen photo albums upstairs and about 25,000 digital images. My family consists of my son and me. When he's old and gray, he might want to page through the albums, but after he's gone - they're landfill.
The Declaration of Independence is worth preserving. Is that group picture of your family in the same category?
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Just this week I was looking at the 105 year old photo album of my great uncle and his Army buddies in France and Italy and wondering what do I do with these? I can't bring myself to dump them in a landfill - will have to leave it for someone else to do