Family photos project

[owlmoose]

I went to my parents' place yesterday afternoon and came home with two large boxes of loose photos and a box of photo albums. Their 50th wedding anniversary is coming up in 2021, and although that's awhile from now I figured it made for a good excuse to digitize all the family photos. Probably we should have done this at least a decade ago, because then more people would be alive who recognized the people in them -- one of the big boxes was the photo collection of my mother's great aunt, so there are pictures going back at least to the early 20th century. As I was doing a first pass through sorting that box, I found one picture that is almost certainly my grandfather as a small child, a photo I'd never seen before.

I thought about sending the photos out to a scanning service, but since T has plenty of time these days, he offered to help with the project. So we ordered an inexpensive photo scanner instead. I'll be curious as to how that works out. I promise not to bore you all with thousands of family photos (I'm a little leery of the potential privacy issues anyway), but I may share a choice image now and then. Just going through some of the albums with my folks was an entertaining trip down memory lane. I look forward to being able to share these with family near and far, and maybe get some help with identification.

Comments

[oracne]

I have a photo scanner, and it's worth every penny, even though I still have a ton of ones to do. Some of the photos I was really leery of sending out for fear of damage.

[novel_machinist]

that sounds really interesting! :) I hope it's a fun project.

[003_5]

sounds interesting, my family has got a ton of old photos, i was thinking of digitizing some for Christmas!

[lassarina]

One of the projects I keep meaning to do is an app that will allow family members to (privately) tag/comment family photos to share memories for stuff like this. I should really get on that.

[zahraa]

It's so hard sorting out those family photos, because everyone looks alike! Is this my grandmother or her sister? Or her mother?