Finding Memories

01/02/2023

Wow.

04/01/2022

Todays the day! 1950 census data 🎉

Personally identifiable 1950 census data will be released on Friday. All detailed census data must, by law, be sequestered for 72 years.

02/02/2022

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/family-trees-fill-gaps-black-people-seeking-ancestral-roots-rcna13998

Black people have been able to connect with the past and give new agency to their identities through building family trees and researching their family histories.

01/25/2022

This article is so important. This is the first I’ve ever heard of Mae Louise Walls Miller.

More than 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, there were black people in the Deep South who had no idea they were free. These people were forced to work, violently tortured, and r***d.

11/30/2021

Adopted children face a slew of legal challenges in trying to obtain their original birth certificates. Lawmakers across the country are increasingly granting more access as a basic human right.

11/14/2021

😂❤️

11/02/2021

Sale :)

Offer ends 11/24. Terms apply.

10/28/2021

Have you found your body type in your ancestors’ photos? I have!

Strong women who were farmers, and nurses, and mothers who grew and fed babies. All sizes have always existed. The media has shifted this narrative, I guess, since advertisements hit printing presses.

10/26/2021

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10/03/2021

Artists who are also passionate about “finding memories” - this mother and son duo won the top ArtPrize award for capturing the the memories, guidance, and advice of people nearing the end of life. This is the important kind of work I feel we are missing in our culture, and an example of why I am so passionate about digging these stories out of the past. Over the last century or two we’ve fallen out of touch with storytelling and listening to our elders.

I do have one question, however… the article doesn’t mention anything about the covid delta variant and going into a small phone booth to put a public receiver up to your face.

Christian Reichle and Monica Pritchard won the ArtPrize 2021 grand prize for their entry, “Before You Go.”

07/14/2021

Lineage is so intriguing and exciting! We live in a time where we can learn things that were previously impossible to know - it’s like time travel!

Fourteen people alive today in Italy can claim that they are descendants of

12/27/2020

Wow - this is really fascinating. I didn’t realize beauty retouch in old photos was this in-depth.

What I find most interesting about this is that I have seen portrait photography that looks weirdly airbrushed... like there is a real lack of features on the face, and I wasn’t sure why. In reality this could mean they were overly-corrected ... maybe due to an illness or facial growth - or even to try to cover a lot of freckles or wrinkles. Looking for old photo retouches really brings new insight to the life of the person in the photo.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/83262/how-photo-retouching-worked-photoshop?fbclid=IwAR0KUi0rlqNcEzpV0bBVp7fcZaZmsrqOokyuHYnMkxZwR_6kgZHlnAWEz1U

Photographers and cultural critics have long debated the ethics of retouching—even when it took place directly on the negative in the 19th century.