Pass the Memories

08/27/2014

a little more info

08/07/2014

And for those of you who are interested in art, we would love to visit with you at our opening on September 6th.

01/20/2014

Upcoming photo organization class.

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08/17/2013

This 93-year old learned about his grandparents from an Internet post. http://www.gvnews.com/news/local/treasure-chest-family-history-spills-out-of-dresser-onto-internet/article_6bec9c78-0161-11e3-bc31-001a4bcf887a.html

08/16/2013

Wonderful story of how interviewing his grandmother taught a man where his father and uncle's names came from, how they were named for men his grandfather had fought with. This is a story that would have been lost had this man failed to ask a few pertinent questions before his grandmother passed.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/05/23/2913034/column-interviewing-grandma-makes.html

I misspelled my middle name for most of my childhood. I was maybe age 10 before there was a total epiphany, when my parents told me that Jon had no h.

08/08/2013

Thanks so much Jennifer Bower for liking my page. Best of luck with your book.

08/01/2013

This article offers such a simple way of interesting younger generations in passing on family stories. Worth checking out.
http://www.archives.com/experts/macentee-thomas/pinning-down-your-family-history.html

After many years of researching your own family history, one of the biggest challenges that remains is this: how can you share your findings with friends and family and in a way that they understand and appreciate?

07/23/2013

Kind of a cool article about crafty ways to use our family history here: http://www.archives.com/experts/fishman-stephanie-pitcher/not-just-lines-on-a-page-family-trees-to-display-and-share.html. Lots more info about this kind of stuff on our Pinterest boards, especially "Photo Crafts," "How & Why We Save Photos," "Preserving Personal and Family History" which can be found here: http://pinterest.com/passthememories/boards/

07/22/2013

And here is what the cool envelopes look like.

07/22/2013

This is a very cool way to make envelopes significantly unique: http://www.marthastewartweddings.com/225426/lining-envelopes

07/16/2013

Just posted this on our Pinterest "Why and how to preserve photos" board, but thought it might be of interest to those of you following here. This place seems to have just about anything you would need to preserve photographs. http://www.carrmclean.com/categorygroupbrowser.aspx?CategoryID=160

05/14/2013

Thought this a worthwhile link to share. It contains some very basic info on how to begin sorting digital photos. http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art2146.asp

Here are some basics to sorting your photos, whether they are printed or digital. Includes information on tagging. - Photo Organization - Scrapbooking at BellaOnline