tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574003980721581984.post3729501814237798103..comments2024-03-15T10:40:20.085-04:00Comments on LAWN TEA: NAMING NAMESRachelDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11204947567574886675noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574003980721581984.post-62484699361836275172011-01-06T13:26:19.815-05:002011-01-06T13:26:19.815-05:00Rachel, I love you and I love this post. I am a &...Rachel, I love you and I love this post. I am a "certified write the name on the back of that photo" officer. We did this project about 18 years ago, and I am continually quite diligent.<br /><br />I use a genealogy software program, and I try to remember to post all entrances (births), exits (divorces and deaths) and edits (you can only imagine) as updates.Beverlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10535622044396271722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574003980721581984.post-50775161509914909792011-01-05T22:00:29.541-05:002011-01-05T22:00:29.541-05:00I share your frustration at old photos that aren’t...I share your frustration at old photos that aren’t labeled. It was when I started trying to ID pictures that I’d gotten from family members that I began to make the effort to write at least a name and date on the backs of mine. Sometimes it’s a major pain when there are a lot of pictures or I’ve waited a while to organize them (that’s when I start grumbling – “If I can make the effort with eleventy-billion pictures, why couldn’t they do it with maybe 50 pictures taken in their entire lifetime). You’ve reminded me to go around to all the framed pictures and make sure that they are ID’d as well as possible. <br /><br />Have a wonderful visit with Miss Sis!Kim S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06609086775319252934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574003980721581984.post-15357721178302290402011-01-05T20:03:02.389-05:002011-01-05T20:03:02.389-05:00I do have to urge folks to get the relatives to id...I do have to urge folks to get the relatives to identify photos while the wits are still present. When my parents moved out of their house, they mostly remembered, but not always, and nowadays my mother does not remember her grandchildren's names much of the time, not to mention calling me either by her sisters' names or my sister's! She does still know who I am, and wants me to come home SOON from our winter abode.Chesapeakenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574003980721581984.post-64257953875692829302011-01-05T10:13:44.355-05:002011-01-05T10:13:44.355-05:00Oh, Y'all! I just love knowing that times an...Oh, Y'all! I just love knowing that times and people and things are being identified and carried on for the new generations. Just the little while it takes to jot down a few names, or a date if you know it---that will multiply so greatly in the giving of that gift to family whose knowledge of those people comes only through us, or perhaps from an old family Bible with script in a spidery hand.<br /><br />Thank you ALL for your own memories, and I hope you all the benefit and reward of sitting with your own new generations, showing them their people, and the lives lived long ago, to put them here today.<br /><br />Pat---Welcome, and I'm so glad you chimed in!! I drop in on you often, and am so pleased that you made a visit here.RachelDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11204947567574886675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574003980721581984.post-27858919377330876732011-01-05T09:17:50.591-05:002011-01-05T09:17:50.591-05:00We have my maternal family history back to Wales, ...We have my maternal family history back to Wales, around 1705 and J's family history back to Westphalia (Germany) mid 19th century. These are treasures.<br />My children gave me a picture, over Christmas, taken at their dad's sister's home, during the early 1970's, not marked. Fortunately, the subject is living and was able to identify herself (Pat) after seeing the photo under a strong light. I try to remember to write names and dates on the backs of photos.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574003980721581984.post-53010568227788286292011-01-05T06:21:45.104-05:002011-01-05T06:21:45.104-05:00Gratefully, I remember sitting with Mom a while be...Gratefully, I remember sitting with Mom a while before her death and writing names on some of the old [ictures...most made when she was a child. If we had not, we would never have known who they are! Your suggestion is right-on!Tonjahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08699862913139313405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574003980721581984.post-79344041055016354712011-01-05T00:17:03.290-05:002011-01-05T00:17:03.290-05:00You are so right about putting names on pictures.I...You are so right about putting names on pictures.I have a lot of really old photos that I remember my grandmother naming-of course I have forgotten-wish she had written on the back-everyone that would know these people have now passed.So sad.PAINTORDIG.blogspot.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278041200437040139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574003980721581984.post-31599528965037290222011-01-04T23:20:34.050-05:002011-01-04T23:20:34.050-05:00I have done a lot of research on both my Mom and D...I have done a lot of research on both my Mom and Dad's side. Last year I bought a little portable scanner and took it to my sis's house and scanned all of her pictures on a SD card to load to computer and fixed the pictures that needed it and put names and dates on all of them using photo shop element..<br />MollyMarjorie (Molly) Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08876434453158175693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574003980721581984.post-61866897183550319132011-01-04T21:44:52.981-05:002011-01-04T21:44:52.981-05:00Ah, one never knows from whence inspiration will c...Ah, one never knows from whence inspiration will come, right?Chesapeakenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574003980721581984.post-64934569993154925572011-01-04T18:24:06.651-05:002011-01-04T18:24:06.651-05:00Been there and done that now trying to get those a...Been there and done that now trying to get those ancestors in place. Got one family in a book. see post. You know this is addictive?Patsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17862394699499538591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574003980721581984.post-91699569760168530772011-01-04T17:28:30.174-05:002011-01-04T17:28:30.174-05:00My mother also has traced our family back to Norwa...My mother also has traced our family back to Norway...my great-great-great grandparents, I think. We have several old treasured photographs, too. Most of ours, thankfully, are identifiable. I sew, and I enjoy looking at their clothing. I have a collection of old wedding photos of relatives. I will have to post on them soon.<br />Sheilamustard seedshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18149692177032280743noreply@blogger.com