Using Newspapers for Researching Your Family’s History
How do you put depth to those old family photos you find or still have in your traditional scrapbook albums? Digging into your family’s history and journaling brief stories. I’ve been a photo coach for almost 30 years Newspaper clippings are often quite helpful, especially if your relatives lived in smaller towns. Using newspapers […]
Choosing How Far Back You’ll Go in Researching Your Family History
Researching your family’s history can mean different things depending on your interest level. You can satisfy your curiosity about your family’s past by looking at old photos, home movies, slides, or other media and jotting down your recollections and understanding of what you’re viewing. Or you can dig deeper and travel back farther in time. […]
Having Fun Using Family Photos in Researching Your Family History
Your family line is as much a puzzle as it is a tree with roots and branches. Researching your family means answering questions and digging up one person’s story and those findings can lead to more stories. You can make piecing together your family history as detailed as you’d like or as simple as possible. […]
How to Organize Your Family Photos to Research Your Family History
If you’re starting to trace your family’s history don’t get overwhelmed. It’s doable if you have a strategy to organize your photos and research your genealogy. Know Your Purpose for Family Research Why do you want to research your family’s history and trace your genealogy? Keep your answer firmly in mind so you can […]
A New Census Made Public for Researching Your Family History
A family’s story is a precious way to chronicle life from the early years through life as a senior, aging gracefully. You can see it in the digital album, above, that has photos of my father and mother–from their childhood into their years as grandparents and great-grandparents. Their photos are stored through FOREVER®, a service […]
Make Organizing and Preserving Photos a Family Project
During the past few blog posts, you’ve seen how I’ve handled organizing photos that have helped me reach back to my great-grandparents while connecting in new ways with my grandmother, mother, and my dad. Scroll to the end to see the links to those blogs. But what about my own children? Photo Coaching with Young […]
Learn how to do more with your family photos during a free event
What a great time to tell your family’s history through the photos and documents you collect. It’s now possible to organize them in digital albums that you own and can pass on to descendants you’ll never meet. Learn more for free this coming Saturday, Feb. 26 during an event hosted by FOREVER, a company I’ve […]
Researching Your Family’s History and Story Using Photos and Free Resources
You’ve heard colorful tales of the past so you begin researching your family’s history to learn what’s true, but you wonder what tools are the best to use. A listing of free resources below can help you form a complete family tree. Or, you got a good start digging into the genealogy but can’t get […]
Help for Researching Family History and Genealogy
If you’re wondering how to connect the pieces of your family’s lineage and genealogy, then here are sites to visit and begin your journey. If you need professional help, then that’s available as well. But what do you do with your findings and how do you safely store them? As a photo coach, I’ve […]
5 Important Benefits of Researching Family History and Family Photos
Digging into our family’s past has special meaning for all generations. Here are benefits of researching our family history and using the stories we uncover to add special dimensions to family photos of bygone eras. 1. Adds Depth to Older Family Pictures You come across a black and white picture from several decades ago. […]