Wonderful photos of your ancestors! You with the sheep - so tender. Your Seamwork presentation - YES!. I'd love to see it. My dad took polaroid photos, now mostly lost. My brother resurrected some old family videos that nobody is really interested in - emotionally disconnected family.
That’s too bad. Our family is spread across two continents but still very connected. I’m the keeper of the photo archive, but my 3 kids add to it all year. My son in France is prolific with the pix, since he has kids and they have photogenic adventures.
Ah, yes, the dozen shoe boxes and stacks of albums of family photos. About ten years ago, I acquired, for a time, all of the albums my ex-wife got custody of, and I scanned all but those of *her* family. A tedious part of the process was renaming every one of them, beginning with yyyy-mm-dd and adding a few details after that. This keeps the files in chronological order on the computer. I rewarded her by sending her (and my boys) all of the digitized photos. (Fortunately for me, she wrote the dates on the back. Whenever either one of us took a picture all those years ago, she would jot the date in a notebook.)
As an added form of tedium and torture, I used an app called Photo Mill to change the creation date for each one, matching the date in the filename. When I imported them to Photos, they were in chronological order.
And last year, I acquired all my parents' photographs and started in on those. Dating them offered a significant challenge, but I enjoyed the sleuthing.
Interesting how the corporate media does not seem concerned about the mental fitness and agedness of Trump, who is now the doddering old man in the race.
Whoa, Paul. Back-dating photos so they sort chronologically will make my eyes cross. I will however check out Photo Mill when the weather turns bad.
Your every post inspires me, Joy. Thank you!
Thanks so much Elisa. I am trying to keep the faith!
Wonderful photos of your ancestors! You with the sheep - so tender. Your Seamwork presentation - YES!. I'd love to see it. My dad took polaroid photos, now mostly lost. My brother resurrected some old family videos that nobody is really interested in - emotionally disconnected family.
That’s too bad. Our family is spread across two continents but still very connected. I’m the keeper of the photo archive, but my 3 kids add to it all year. My son in France is prolific with the pix, since he has kids and they have photogenic adventures.
Ah, yes, the dozen shoe boxes and stacks of albums of family photos. About ten years ago, I acquired, for a time, all of the albums my ex-wife got custody of, and I scanned all but those of *her* family. A tedious part of the process was renaming every one of them, beginning with yyyy-mm-dd and adding a few details after that. This keeps the files in chronological order on the computer. I rewarded her by sending her (and my boys) all of the digitized photos. (Fortunately for me, she wrote the dates on the back. Whenever either one of us took a picture all those years ago, she would jot the date in a notebook.)
As an added form of tedium and torture, I used an app called Photo Mill to change the creation date for each one, matching the date in the filename. When I imported them to Photos, they were in chronological order.
And last year, I acquired all my parents' photographs and started in on those. Dating them offered a significant challenge, but I enjoyed the sleuthing.
Interesting how the corporate media does not seem concerned about the mental fitness and agedness of Trump, who is now the doddering old man in the race.