Featured Family Stories

31
Oct

Happy Halloween from Family Historians, Photo Collectors, Memory Keepers and the Team at Save Family Photos

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My mom’s birthday is October 31st. Even though it was supposed to be her day, she fully embraced Halloween every year with my brother and me, easily making it my favorite holiday. . She dressed us up in extravagant costumes and transformed us into great trick-or-treaters. . She loved hand-making our costumes. And I loved […]

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31
Oct

Saving my Grandparent’s Wedding Photo and Discovering the Beauty of their Love Story

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My Grammie and Grandaddy on their wedding day 1954. Don’t they look like a glamorous Hollywood couple? . I spent a couple hours over several days at my Grammie’s home, taking pictures of old family photos. . She shared so many memories with me and I was able to get over 2,000 pictures saved to […]

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24
Oct

Flashback to Sunny Days and Family Memories Made in Hawaii

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My parents took turns taking a picture with their four daughters on Lanikai beach Hawaii in 1968. I’m daughter ! . Those same two wonderful parents still reside in beautiful Hawaii, 50+ years later! . These snapshots evoke special feelings of warmth, security and love. I have fond memories of beautiful days that seemed endless […]

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17
Oct

To Be a Fly On the Wall When My Grandparents Met for the First Time

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This my grandpa. Born in Ukraine, he eventually settled in New Jersey after WWII. . During the war, he fought in the Soviet Red Army against the Nazis. . The Nazis were bombing a train that my grandmother was on, and she was having difficulty helping her father evacuate. That’s when a handsome, mustachioed soldier […]

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14
Oct

When Old Photo Albums Come Out of the Closet, Fun Stories Start Emerging

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Mom and the great blue sea, circa 1960s. . I’ve heard many stories of her growing up on my great grandpa’s sailboat, but I’ve never seen a photo of it…until now. . Her commentary on this photo: “We were born with sea legs!” . Losing my great grandma has been hard, but it does mean […]

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12
Oct

Proof of the Prettiest Smile Ever, a Vintage School Photo of my Mom

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Proof of the prettiest smile ever. . This is a Marshall University sorority photo of my mother, Jane Costanzo, at the age of 19 in 1964. . My mother has had many accomplishments across her lifetime that I can recall. As a child, for example, being the diligent Girl Scout that she was, she practiced […]

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09
Oct

An Indian Patriarch on His Wedding Day in 1960

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16 June 1960, New Delhi, India. My handsome ‘nanaji’ (maternal grandfather) Amrik Singh Rana and his cousins on his wedding day. Nanaji, born during the British Raj in India, had a love for modernity. He always brought his daughters western outfits from his travels abroad and had the sweetest curiosity for his grandchildren’s new gadgets […]

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06
Oct

Memories from Family Road Trips

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The best road trips are the ones that lead us to our simplest memories. Family road trip, circa 1966. Our car is packed, looks like a bicycle and stroller are also strapped to the roof. Two large plaid suitcases, and possibly a child’s playpen, fill the back of the wagon. A wooden birdhouse is strapped […]

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27
Sep

Malaysian Memories, Picturing the Timeless Beauty of my Grandmother

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When I was visiting my uncle recently, he brought out this huge album of old photos taken by my grandpa (who was an avid photographer) and I came across this picture of my grandma. According to my mum, this was taken at their home – Sabai Estate (a rubber plantation estate, my grandpa was the […]

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20
Sep

The Couple Who Taught Me What it Means to Love and Be Loved

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I have never seen such love and mutual admiration between a couple as that from my mom and dad, John Evans and Patsy Ann Stone. . Dad ALWAYS opened mom’s car door, ALWAYS pulled out her chair at the dinner table, and ALWAYS put her desires above his own. . They only spoke positive words […]

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