Comments on: Max Neil In Egypt – The Photo From My Ozarks Trip http://1heckofaguy.com/2010/02/02/max-neil-in-egypt-the-photo-from-my-ozarks-trip/ A pastiche of posts, featuring song, dance, snappy chatter plus notes on prose, poesy, love, lust, life, and beyond Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:30:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Naomi http://1heckofaguy.com/2010/02/02/max-neil-in-egypt-the-photo-from-my-ozarks-trip/comment-page-1/#comment-1554 Naomi Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:51:02 +0000 http://1heckofaguy.com/?p=6484#comment-1554 I moved to Pennsylvania where my extended family lives and where my mother grew up. I have been humbled by the rath of deaths of that generation. In the Goodwill, I am finding valuable items that were brought home to sweethearts and wives during WWII. If only I knew the stories, now long-lost, of those items and the heart-warming sentiment they once expressed. Yes, they make excellent eBay sales, but I would rather have the provenance to go with the item. I admonish everyone to get a archival pen, start writing down the names of who is/are in the photographs...even those you take today. There are prgrams such as ACDSee where you can embed a lot of information within the digital file. I have connected with many family members through geneaolgy research and have been able to fill in the blanks, and vice versa... One such photograph was of the great-great grandmother my very distant cousin was named after, and she had no clue! I have seen pictures trashed by the score because the owner had no clue who the individuals were. We are the story keepers, and it is our duty to archive and document this information. I moved to Pennsylvania where my extended family lives and where my mother grew up. I have been humbled by the rath of deaths of that generation. In the Goodwill, I am finding valuable items that were brought home to sweethearts and wives during WWII. If only I knew the stories, now long-lost, of those items and the heart-warming sentiment they once expressed. Yes, they make excellent eBay sales, but I would rather have the provenance to go with the item.

I admonish everyone to get a archival pen, start writing down the names of who is/are in the photographs…even those you take today. There are prgrams such as ACDSee where you can embed a lot of information within the digital file. I have connected with many family members through geneaolgy research and have been able to fill in the blanks, and vice versa… One such photograph was of the great-great grandmother my very distant cousin was named after, and she had no clue! I have seen pictures trashed by the score because the owner had no clue who the individuals were.

We are the story keepers, and it is our duty to archive and document this information.

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