User ID wrote:
For some, its just about making an image. For some others it seems to be about immortality.
Having no pix of my great great grandparents, I dont know what they looked like. I also dont know their names ... perhaps their wedding guest books were digital ?
I really dont know anything at all beyond my grandparents, all four of whom I knew in life. Im getting the impression, from some folks, that I should feel shortchanged by having no connection to ghosts. If one is not brought up to revere ghosts, one doesnt miss them.
I dont know who in my "tree" first left Africa, or first wandered into the frozen north. I dont know what happened five or ten generations ago so I guess ALL that stuff must have been digital, cuz its gone without a trace.
Beginning about fifty years ago, most newly made family snapshots were machine made C-prints. The only family images that will outlive those were made by "artistes" cuz "artistes" had BW home darkrooms. If there were no "artistes" in your family, then soon enuf you will never have existed !
For some, its just about making an image. For some... (
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The stuff you don't know isn't gone simply because you're ignorant of it. I suspect that anyone on Ancestry could start with your grandparents run your "tree" on back. But why would you care about that? You are sufficiently genius enough from your own efforts.