For the last 4 years I\u2019ve been tackling my parents lifetime photo collection which includes all the photos they have inherited from their forebears. It\u2019s required a good deal of effort and persistence. If you intend to take on such a challenge you\u2019ll need to be prepared for the long haul.<\/p>\n
In order to find out what\/who the photos are of and when they were taken I\u2019ve had a discussion with my mother about most of them. Inevitably, she remembers less about some of the older ones (taken, say, 70 or 80 years ago) than some of the newer ones; and she can\u2019t provide any light at all on some of those she inherited from her parents or from my father\u2019s side of the family.\u00a0 In those cases, I\u2019ve used every clue I can find (type and size of print, numbers stamped on the back, writing on the back, similarity of scene, etc.) to identify related photos and deduce some information about their progeny. I\u2019ve recorded a few of the conversations we\u2019ve had about the photos; and deciding how to keep those recordings is one of the remaining tasks I have to do. However, apart from that and putting\u00a0 a few remaining photos in albums, the job is just about finished. All 7000 or so photos have been indexed, scanned, and the file titles populated with reference number, contents and dates; and then the physical photos have been put into one of about 19 slip-in albums.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve done similar jobs on my own pre-marriage collection, on my wife\u2019s family collection, and on our own family collection. That is where the insights I\u2019ve recorded earlier in this topic have come from. Now it remains for me to tie up loose ends and to decide whether to collect everything I\u2019ve learned into a single article or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For the last 4 years I\u2019ve been tackling my parents lifetime photo collection which includes all the photos they have inherited from their forebears. It\u2019s required a good deal of effort and persistence. If you intend to take on such … Continue reading