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13
Jul

A Man on a Mission to Show how Important it is to print photos

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This is a portrait of my great, great uncle, taken in Paris during World War I. Incredibly, the photo studio is still in business and I am traveling there to have my portrait made in the exact location. Recreating a 100-year old portrait of my great, great uncle will undoubtedly be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. But […]

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05
Jul

Saving Family Photos Helps Us Preserve the Past and Keep Memories Alive

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My mom in 1955 with me and my sister. She was a true Texas girl. Born in 1931 during the Great Depression, she reached her teen years during WWII. She was well-acquainted with doing without. But here, in the mid-1950s, she must have felt she was blessed with everything: a new family, a man she […]

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29
Jun

When We Save Family Photos, We Save Our Family History Too

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While helping my father, @fotogene32, clean out his house to move I came across lots of his old photos. The house, in Whitestone, Queens, belonged to his parents before he lived there, and this was taken nearby, at Fort Totten, by the Throgs Neck bridge. It’s my grandfather, Anton, and my sister Nina in 1966 […]

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27
Jun

Confessions of a Photo Hoarder – 5 Tips for Disconnecting from Digital to Reconnect with Tangible Memories

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I admit it. I’m a photo hoarder. In fact, I bet I’m not the only one. That’s right, I’m looking at you! But don’t worry, you’re not alone. Millions of people feel like they’re drowning in a sea of digital photos. So many of us are struggling to wade through our digital photos that there’s an entire organization dedicated to […]

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27
Jun

A Tribute To My Mother, Born and Raised in Brooklyn

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My mother Gladys in Brooklyn, circa 1940s. She was born in St. Marks Hospital in NYC in 1922 and grew up in a household of extended family members, even sharing a bed with a maternal aunt until she was 16. My mother suffered from a variety of medical issues throughout her life, some due to […]

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23
Jun

A Timeless Love Story, Told Through One Old Photo

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My parents kissing after my mom graduated med school, with my dad using her diploma to tell my uncle to shove off. My mom and dad met at a Mennonite high school, while they were both dating other people. They were on a picnic double-date one day outside my grandparents’ house, and my mom came […]

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20
Jun

Our Family History is Filled with Tales of Courage and Bravery

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Meet my grandpa Henry and my great aunt Charlotte. They journeyed along with their parents from Gotha, Germany to the United States in October of 1921. My grandpa was just 7 months old and Charlotte was 4 years old when their ship arrived at Ellis Island. My great aunt Charlotte had several health problems from […]

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20
Jun

How Finding Old Family Photos Helped Me Reconnect with my Dad

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This is a photograph of my father Cees Moerman as a teenager in the late 1950’s. He was born in Amsterdam on 20 March 1946 and sadly passed away in Luxembourg in November 2008. My father and I had a troubled relationship. He was an alcoholic, and his drinking was eventually the cause of his […]

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16
Jun

She Loved His Eyes, and He Only Had Eyes for Her

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June 16, 2016. Today would have been my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary, but dad died in 2007. He was 10 years older than my mum, they met because dad commuted into London on the same train as my grandfather. However, my dad was already married by that point and had three children. Apparently, mum took […]

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14
Jun

Four Generations of Exceptional Women Who Left a Lasting Family Legacy

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Pictured here are four generations of exceptional women from my family. My mother is on the left, rocking the white dress. Her name was Jessica Hobby Catto. My sister Heather is the baby in my great grandmother’s lap. My great grandmother Emma was from Kileen, Texas and died shortly after this picture was taken. And […]

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