How are you digitizing and preserving your priceless family archives? Are you scanning them yourself? Or are you outsourcing? We want to hear from you! . I spent last weekend sifting through mountains of photos, albums and memories with my Mom while starting the scanning process. So far I’ve learned that those old, thick, faded […]
My grandma loved style, and she had loads of it. . Knowing how poor her family was, I marvel at how put together she always managed to be, without exception. . She was a huge fan of lipstick and wore it until the day she left us at age 95. I still have a gold […]
Our family just celebrated the life of this kind, generous man. I was lucky enough to adopt him as my own grandfather when I married my husband Charley in 2001, and I knew he was a treasure from the moment I met him. Pop personified the word “service” as he gave of himself unceasingly to […]
My father, standing, with one of his four brothers, circa 1922. My Dad is on the right, with the sweet smile. I’m lucky to have so many old family pictures like this. . These two boys, Charlie and Bobby, ages 4 and 3, already had a baby brother. And there was one more to come […]
We’ve all been there. It usually looks something like this: you’re standing in front of an open closet having a minor anxiety attack because you see the amount of stuff stashed inside. Most families have a closet – or even an entire basement – like this. The “stuff” inside ranges from priceless photos to random memorabilia that someone in […]
This guy would’ve celebrated his birthday this weekend. . This tintype of my grandad has been around for almost 131 years now. It’s been one of my dad’s prized possessions ever since I can remember. . My dad treasures this tintype of his father; the original is carefully tucked away in his valet. I remember […]
I still make the same face. . Photo by Papa, Eugene Kolomatsky. . My dad is a wonderful photographer and he’s still doing it at 84. I’m grateful to have many cool images from my childhood, like this one. . These photos have helped keep my family memories alive and have also served to inspire […]
My dad always loved to spook me and my siblings with a scary story. And the true stories were always the scariest. The story that always gave us a thrill was when he was stung by hornets. Yikes. Last year, while scanning images from our family cabin in Mendocino county, I came across a picture […]
It’s a stereotype that Italian mothers are very protective of their sons, and for my grandfather, it was true. My grandfather George is the third from the right, posing with his newsboy buddies in 1924. George was the youngest of my great grandmother’s four boys and was her favorite. She always dreamed of a beautiful […]
This is Russ and Linda in 1966. They are my parents. My mom and dad were married in Los Angeles the DAY after they graduated CSUN. They met, got engaged, married, and graduated college in under 6 months! And they are still married, surviving my dad going to Vietnam, 4 kids, many pets, earthquakes, and […]
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