(Reunion time always makes me think about this sort of thing more so while I’m focused, I’ll just finally get this down on paper…)
At last year's reunion, Ian and I distributed CD copies of Mum & Dad's slides. Their total collection was roughly 600 slides with probably 300 being of family functions and relatives. It took several weeks of scanning in our free time to digitalize, in some cases adjust, and repair them with Photoshop.
(Technology has made duplication and storage so easy that it just takes a little time and patience to spread these treasures out among family [and friends]. We've got a good quality scanner that will do slides, documents and pictures and a digital camera that on macro setting will take good quality pictures of pretty much anything you might want to copy. If any family members have pictures or records they’d like copied and burned to CD and don’t have access to this sort of equipment - we'd be happy to help.)
We both believe strongly in sharing precious photos and documents.
Ian and I feel a copy and share philosophy greatly reduces the probability that in time treasures, like old photos, will be lost to deterioration, damage or in my case - being put in the proverbial safe place I can't ever locate again. As with any family, though we have common ancestors, it's a numerical reality that there are more of us than there were of them. Using this easy technology to share your treasures with other family members who don't have and may not even know they exist, you're helping to keep memories and bonds alive and for me that's what family is all about. That's largely what hooked me on family history research.
At last year’s reunion, Donna McLachlin generously gave Brian, Glenn and I copies of a picture of our Dad that I’d never seen before. I believe Donna said it had been in the photo collection of a family friend who allowed it to be copied and shared. In the pic, Dad’s a teenager feeding a lamb through the fence adjacent to Aunt Jean & Uncle George’s place on the farm.
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f278/skudtz/YoungDadatthefarm.jpg
This year, Donna surprised us again with copies of a second unknown photo – this one of our parents at the Richardson Family Reunion on 23 July 1960. Mum and Dad married on 19 November 1960.
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f278/skudtz/MumDad1960.jpg
Part of my hope is that this blog becomes a forum for sharing this sort of treasure more immediately.
posted by Anney @ 4:49 p.m.
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