Genealogy Chat

Elisabeth, you sure have started something!! We are fortunate in having photos of Betty's parents, grandparents AND Great Grandparents - the latter dating back to around 1880. Needless to say they are all now on CD and some have been printed (in sepia of course) on top quality photo paper for longevity. Try getting a pack of "canvas" style paper and printing one or two of your oldest portraits on that - the result is stunning, especially when put in an old style frame. Peter

I was really interested in your letters re old photographs - I found some (6)recently - survivors of a purge by aunts when my mother died. Have decided to do as you have done - put them on cd for my kids. We have none of my husband's family which is sad - the only pic we have is a b/w pencil sketch I did of his paternal grandmother a few months before she died. I now realise too late the importance of pictorial evidence.

Hi all I like all of you have some wonderful old photo's with no idea who they are.Also recently l came across some old post cards,embroidered in silk,some like envelopes with little cards inside,messages on the back,but no post mark or stamp,from France.They were either from my father-in-law or his father,to his mother and wife.l cried when l found them,as my father-in-law did'nt know his father(he died in WW1)and was never told anything about him.It really is so important to put names etc on photo's and any memorabllia(had to look in dictionary for that one!!) Jude.(s.wales)