Our history is being recorded every day in photographs and videos posted on social media pages, websites and kept on computers. There are millions of pictures that have been thrown in the trash or disintegrated through improper storage over the years that depict our lives and would help our children understand their own personal history. I just finished reading an article on a life science website that tells about the oldest surviving photos still in existence. One of them even sold at auction for $150,000.
Click on the picture to read more about that particular picture. All information from the Live Science article.
It is so important that you or someone in your family that is a little computer literate take the time with your oldest living relatives and scan in all of their pictures while they are still here. That way you might have a chance of adding information to the metafiles attached to the pictures with the names of the people in them, the date and where it was taken. This information stays with the digital picture forever. To access it all you have to do is right click on the photo, go down to properties and start typing. Of course, the scanner will probably add some information in the lower fields but just filling out the top of the box will be a great help when you want to type up a family history later on. You might want to video the person giving you the information to have in your family history collection before they pass away. I know, it is so hard to find the time, but really do you want more of your family history to be lost to relatives who are no longer with us?
If you have inherited pictures from family members and are not sure when, who and where of the pictures you really should go ahead and scan them into digital format because you can post them online and request information about them from friends, family, and possibly even long-lost relatives who might have similar pictures in the family album. It can be a great mystery you want to solve and you can write a book about your journey to discover your past.
And if it was up to me every single nursing home in America would hire someone to scan in old photos from people who have passed away with no relatives to pass them on to. It is such a waste and they really deserved to be remembered if in nothing more than a collage of old photos that we look at and wonder who those people were and what happened to them?
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