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Bring Your Family History To LIFE!
Join me in welcoming Madame Ancestry as my guest blogger today! Madam Ancestry has been interested in her family history since she was a teenager. Be sure to follow her on her blog! For those of us who have the responsibility of researching our family history, the excitement each discovery brings and being able to vividly imagine those encounters comes easily to us – for many of our relatives, not so much. They can’t seem to understand why we’d spend countless hours trying to find the name of the wife of a 2x great uncle, or our excitement in finding the location of origin of our ancestors. We have looked…
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The Best Way To Store Photos and Keep Them Safe
Welcome to Andi Willis of Good Life Organizing as guest blogger today! I know you will enjoy her insight into preserving our family’s historic photographs. From Grandma’s meticulously maintained photo albums to tin types of long gone relatives to snapshots of your parents, photographs capture the visual history of your family. To preserve these precious memories, it is important to safeguard your pictures in a few easy steps. It’s All About LOCATION When It Comes to the Best Way to Store Photos One of the most important factors when it comes to preserving your photographs is where you store them. It is very important not to keep any photographs in attics, basements,…
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Why You Should Save Family Photos
I am so excited to have Rachel LaCour Niesen of Save Family Photos as guest poster today! Welcome, Rachel! Rachel is on a mission to save family stories, one photo at a time. Once you learn more about Rachel and her website SaveFamilyPhotos, you will be motivated to save your own family stories through your photos, too! Why Save Family Photos? How did you get started? Was there one photograph that started it all? As a former photojournalist, I value storytelling and curation. All great photographs tell stories and careful curation helps convey those stories. After years pursuing a career in professional photography, I emerged as both a trained…
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Sleuthing for Your Ancestors’ Stories
Welcome to Michelle Ganus Taggart of A Southern Sleuth! I am so excited to have Michelle as a guest blogger today. I know you will enjoy her post as much as I did. I can picture her now, Grandma sitting in her big comfy rocker beside the old black stove. Framed pictures of our ancestors lined the walls above the nearby dining room table. Grandma loved genealogy and we all knew it. A master storyteller, she eagerly shared the stories of our ancestors and we learned to love them. Years later I began my own genealogical research and, as I did, I found myself seeing stories of my ancestors’ lives…
