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10
Jun

A Portrait of my mother as a young woman

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This lovely lady is 91 years young today! . Every year on her birthday she would be presented with a peony from this garden. . On her necklace is a basketball shaped charm, a gift from her steady fella at the time, captain of the team. When this snapshot was taken, she was 16 years […]

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08
Jun

This Startup May Have Created the Easiest Way to Guarantee That Your Family Stays In Touch

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I love getting mail – real mail, that is. There’s just something fun about walking down my driveway, opening my mailbox, sifting through piles of junk mail and discovering a handwritten note addressed to me. It makes me feel special, cared for and loved. Human handwriting –those unique scribbles and scrawls and signatures–is the secret sauce that makes mail magical. When someone […]

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05
Jun

The Surprisingly Simple Trick to Getting Your Loved Ones to Talk about Family History

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  Every year on January 1, millions of people around the world vow they will start journaling and documenting their life. Hundreds of people also commit to asking their loved ones about their lives and family histories. In fact, journaling is one of the most common New Year’s Resolutions. But by March, most people have given up […]

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05
Jun

How a Funeral Led to One of the Largest Scanning Services in the World

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On our quest to save family photos, we run into kindred spirits. We meet like-minded people who are passionate about preserving photos and the stories they tell. They inspire us; they challenge us; they keep us going. And often, their stories surprise us! That’s why we were thrilled to connect with the founders of ScanCafe, who shared […]

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01
Jun

A Rare Vintage Portrait of a First Communion Conveys an Angelic Mood

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This community of photo lovers, family historians, and memory-keepers of all types continues to inspire us daily! You share such beautiful family photos and stories. . And speaking of beautiful photographs, look at this one of @peregrineblues grandmother on her holy first communion. . She was such a beauty, all the way until she passed […]

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27
May

Photos Can Capture Something about Our Families that we Never Knew

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This photo of my mother captures a person I never really knew. . It was taken by my father in the early 1950s, when they were newlyweds living in a duplex on Lovers Lane. . He dreamed of being a photographer, but it took more than a decade (and the end of their marriage) for […]

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26
May

Throwback Thursday is More Meaningful When We Discover Family Photos

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I’ve been a nature girl all my life. . Despite growing up in a big city, I feel like I am most at home when I’m exploring nature. . My first trail “hike” was at four months old, tucked in a carrier on my dad’s back. He carried me up to the top of Vernal […]

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25
May

How are you digitizing your old family archives so your photos are preserved?

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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 […]

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24
May

Family Photos are Magic Mirrors that Reveal Reflections of Our Family History

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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 […]

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22
May

Memorializing Family Heroes Sometimes Starts with One Simple Snapshot

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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 […]

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