Unfortunately, much of the time I have no idea who these people are. In some cases, the subjects' names are written on the back of the photo or on the border. Sometimes there is just a date. Most of the time, nothing.
I'm sure that the people who saved these photos knew exactly who was in the picture, where they were, and when it was taken. It never occurred to them that someday their descendants, unable to figure it out, might simply discard photos that had become meaningless. They might as well be pictures of strangers purchased at a thrift shop for the frames.
Please, label those photos now, so they can be appreciated in the future. Otherwise, your family history may end up in a landfill.
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I had the same problem when I went through my Grandmother's things. She had many photos and albums that were complete mysteries to me. Sometimes she wrote a comment like "a day at the beach" or "Mike's visit". This was not very helpful to me. I would say that just writing first names is not enough because there may be other people with the same name, or it's someone from the past that aren't known to the younger generation. How I wish she had done this.
ReplyDeleteI could swear those old ladies are the same ones in my mom's album. Stacks of old photos that I don't know who they are.
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