Protecting Your Family’s History: How Would You Store a Treasure Trove of Old Family Photos?
High school football season is almost underway. Where will you store the photos of your athletes? My grandfather played and this is what he looked like suited up in 1924. This photo’s now 99 years old but it’s safely stored and my great-grandchildren, and their children, will be able to access it. Read on […]
Why Our Family Histories are Valuable Treasures to Research and Safeguard for Future Generations
You stumble across a black-and-white family photo of a great-grandmother baking bread during the Great Depression or a grandfather shipping off to war. Our family histories are worth researching and storing in a safe place for those born in future centuries. This Independence holiday week, here’s a brief glimpse of a family who laid the […]
Connecting Generations through Family Research
Researching your family line means much more than gathering data or organizing photos and sorting through newspaper clippings. You can use family research to connect the generations in your family—from the youngest child to the oldest living family member. I’ve done family research using FOREVER®, the same platform I use to store all my most […]
A 4-Step Strategy to Research Your Family History and Organize Your Family Photos
Researching your family history goes hand-in-hand with organizing family photos, home movies, and your other media files. Various tools are useful in researching your family history but how do you store the information as you find it? Here’s a strategy for uncovering the people and stories in your family line while also organizing your most […]
Researching family history is traveling into an earlier era
The fun of researching your family is enjoying another era and finding answers to the question: What was life back then? Think about how we live our lives and what’s important to us. These are the moments we photograph and videotape. Vacations How were vacations similar, but different to the ones we take today? […]
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. […]
Strengthening Family Bonds by Organizing and Storing Family Photos
Organizing your photos and them uploading them to online albums that you own isn’t just a task, it’s a way of enjoying relationships with your closest family members and learning new things. Enjoy this account of a daughter, Kathy Storie, helping her aging father re-kindle memories and affection. Bringing memories to life Kathy […]