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<DIV>Well, here is my success story about old photos.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I didn't know my father's side of the family at all. My father passed away
in 1995 and I had not seen him in 17 years. The lady that he had been living
with about 10 years earlier was a lady that I called "Auntie Bev" (she was
someone I grew up with. My father dated her and my mother dated her husband when
they were teens and they switched partners and got married. I know, I know)
Well, she was coming to Portland and called and asked to meet me at the airport
in Portland. I did and she brought me two trunks. They were filled with pictures
and old letters, old jewelry, etc. but I didn't feel right about opening the
trunk and going thru it. She told me that most of the stuff was from my
grandmother.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Well, two years ago I decided that it was time to open the trunk and
that it wouldn't be snooping. I couldn't believe all the things I found! My
grandmother was a pack rat!! and I'm glad she was. She had all kinds of things
about my father's brother that was amazing. My uncle was in the military during
WWII and he was on Bikini Island. He was an engineer! There were coded telegrams
from Guam etc. Then he did the underground testing in the Nevada desert. He
worked at Indian Springs and they lived in Las Vegas. When you used to watch the
testing on T.V., he was the guy that you heard doing the countdown. I know
because not only did my dad always have us watch, but there was a newspaper
article about it. Of course he, his wife and one of his daughters died of
cancer!</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Well, I hadn't seen any of my Uncle's family since 1969, but I thought that
I would try and find his son. I did find his number and I was able to tell him
what I found. All the wonderful stuff that he had sent his mother and tons of
pictures. He said he wanted me to send them to him, but he wanted NAMES on the
back of all of the pictures because he didn't know who anybody was either!!
<STRONG>Well, that set it all in motion.</STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I turned over the pictures that had names, wrote them down and started
searching. All I knew was that my fraternal grandfather had been born in SD and
so had my father. I sent out one email on the message boards and my <FONT
color=#800080><STRONG>"Danish Genealogy Fairy" </STRONG></FONT>appeared. ONE
DAY!! In two days I had contact with three people in SD. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Anyway, In the end I found out that I have the ONLY pictures from the
1920's, 30's and 40's of the families in South Dakota. My dad's mother's
father owned a General Store and she was the only one who could afford a camera
and film. My grandparents were divorced in 1949. For some reason, she kept all
the pictures safe and sound. She had graduation announcements, school pictures,
wills, diaries, newspaper articles, and tons more. She even had a picture of a
"truck house" that my grandfather built in 1931! I've had requests for some of
the pictures for the State of South Dakota Archives and my family now has
pictures of what their grandmother from Denmark looked like. They had never seen
her before. I was also able to do our genealogy back to Denmark. So cool.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>So...... thanks to my grandmother, I now have made connections to my family
in South Dakota. (By the way, it only cost them $4.00 in 1932 to drive
from SD to Medford. That was for gas, food and lodging)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>So......keep those pictures. At some point they could be a key to some
ones' past. I have so many family members now that I don't know what to do
with them. And the really sad part. Some of them live in the Portland area and
have been here the whole time.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Becky O'Donnell</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>From:</B> <A
title=mailto:EugeneMelvin.roots@comcast.net
href="mailto:EugeneMelvin.roots@comcast.net">EugeneMelvin.roots@comcastnet</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, December 12, 2005 12:31
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [or-roots] old photos
2</DIV>
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<DIV>That actual happen to me about two years ago. While working on my
wife mother line I came across an eight cousin of my wife in East Tennessee
via the Internet. He sent me about 20 pages of stuff to include copies
of photos.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>A year later while we were in Texas visiting another cousin I was
busy scanning the pictures she had and after 5 hours of scanning I come
across the actual photo of which I was sent an copy an year earlier by until
them a complete stranger.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Eugene</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Save the old photos - someday you might find
someone who has a matching one. (I'm an optimist). What a neat
find!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Denise</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=mailto:whizinc@comcast.net
href="mailto:whizinc@comcast.net">Ronda Howard</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, December 12, 2005 8:48
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [or-roots] old photos
2</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I have a related question for you all. While
cleaning out my 86 year old Mother-in-law's house we found her
Mother-in-law's pictures. They were inside a blanket box 20 x 20 x
6. There's at least 200 pictures inside, all are on that 1/8 inch
hardboard that old pictures are on. I'd say the pictures are 80 to
120 years old and haven't seen the light of day for decades. I
plan to scan them. Actually I scanned 1/2 of them but the scanner
was defective and there are streaks through the pictures. What do I
do with the actual pictures. Good for all of you who are labeling
your pictures. 80% of these are not identified, which makes me
sad. I know I'd absolutely love to know who these relatives
are. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Ronda</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=mailto:ross1948@bendcable.com
href="mailto:ross1948@bendcable.com">George Ross</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, December 11, 2005
9:43 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [or-roots] old
photos</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=4>When putting together our
family history photos we begin each generational family with the family
group sheet. The photos are added after the group sheet beginning
with photos of the parents and then photos of the children. We
also add documents such as birth certificates, BLM land claims,
letters, citations from books, wills, census records, etc. and end with
the death certificate(s) and obituary(ies) and photos of grave
stones when they are available. Then we begin the next
family.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=4>There is always a question of
"how many photos" to add or "is it too much information", but with the
older family ancestors we don't usually have a problem deciding what to
use.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=4>We use only two acid free
squares when we attach our photos.(That's the same when scrapbooking our
recent photos, too, as we know the photos won't fall out of the sheet
protectors). We also have acid free <U>clear photo corners</U>
that we use if we don't want to have the squares stick to the photo. I
have been using black background paper or a tan color for most of my
background sheets when doing my heritage albums. I will use
special scrapbooking paper for wedding photos. For my heritage albums I
do very simple pages and include the names of the individuals and
approximate date and location, if known. I've also seen some lovely
pages that should be hung on a wall and not hidden in a
book.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=4>There is no "real" way to do
your albums. No moderator is going to ask you if "that's your
final answer, do you want to phone a friend or take an audience
poll" when you are deciding what to use and where to place things.
Just doing it will allow others the opportunity of looking at an
organized glimpse into the past in future years.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=4>Good Luck!
Julie</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BODY></HTML>