Featured Family Stories

12
Nov

Country Boy Meets City Girl

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I miss these faces every day. My Great Grandparents posed for this picture in the early 1950’s during a family picnic at Franklin Park in Columbus, OH. He was a country boy. She was a city girl from a prestigious family. Despite her father’s disapproval, they married and spent over 67 years together. I can’t […]

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11
Nov

Service and Sacrifice Shared through a veteran’s vintage photos

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Old family photos tell tales of service and sacrifice. On Veteran’s Day, we honor loved ones who served their family and their country. My wife’s grandfather served in the Vietnam war during the 1960s. He was in the Navy fighting overseas while his wife was here in the states raising their first child. His name […]

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09
Nov

GRANNY’S GRACE AND STYLE, PICTURED IN AN OLD WEDDING PHOTOGRAPH

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“My father used to say that stories are the most precious heritage of mankind.” -Tahir Shah My Granny Lauretta Barron as a bridesmaid in 1964. (She’s on the far left.) The other lovely bridesmaids are my great aunts. The wedding was in Hot Springs, Arkansas in 1964. Check out those cat eye glasses! ~shared by […]

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08
Nov

Why we should ask our grandparents about their life stories

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If I had one wish it would be to spend the day with my grandma on the day she had these portraits taken in 1945. I think sometimes we forget that our elders were young once, so I am thankful I have these to remind me. Luckily she is only a couple miles away, so […]

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31
Oct

Happy Halloween from the team at Save Family Photos!

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Today’s the day to grab a costume and make memories! 1954. My uncle visiting a ghost town while dressed in his cowboy outfit, complete with gun holster and chaps. The Pontiac now has a few dents and scrapes. ~shared by @debgarr9903 View on Instagram →

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20
Oct

Meet My Grandpa Paul, An Avid Photographer and Hunter

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Alaska 1970. Meet my Grandpa, Paul Scharfencamp, who loved hunting. He also loved photography. I’ve been scanning and piecing together information from photos he took during his service in WWII, his experience as a pilot, his career as a trucker, and as a father of eight. He made several hunting trips to Alaska where his […]

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19
Oct

New York City Childhood Memories, Discovered in this old family picture

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“History is nothing but a series of stories, whether it be world history or family history.” – Bill Mooney My Dad playing in Little Italy, around 1947. The family had just moved to a new neighborhood, and the huge spools he played on actually held brand new electrical lines that my Dad remembers the city […]

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18
Oct

Discovering my Parents’ Wedding Album was like finding buried treasure

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My parents, Oct 13, 1951. Washington, DC. (Happily married for 62 years.) I discovered my parents’ wedding album as a young photography student. I was struck by the exquisite craftsmanship of these photos. Wedding photographers in 1951 worked with 4×5 Speed Graphic cameras which only took one sheet of film at a time. They had […]

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17
Oct

Why a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

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1977. Me and @portraitsounds with our great-grandmother “Omi” in Jerusalem. We didn’t speak a word of Hungarian, she didn’t speak a word of Hebrew, but it didn’t matter. My great-grandma raised my mom while both of her parents worked. In her nineties, Omi was still well enough to help my mom when my brother was […]

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16
Oct

In the end, we all become stories

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“In the end, we’ll all become stories.” – Margaret Atwood From left to right: my father (the nerd) my grandfather, grandmother, and aunt. My uncle took the photo at their cabin. I had a couple photographers in my family, so I have some really good photos from as late as 1860’s. But of all the […]

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