Apologies for the slight delay in a new blog update, but we have been concentrating on our new website. We hope you enjoy it, and please do let us know if you have any comments or suggestions.
In all our blogs and throughout this website, we have tried to emphasise the importance of collecting more information on your ancestors than just dates. Dates are really useful and the join the dot game of genealogy starts with dates, but what about the person? We have already discussed a lot of the extra things you can research in this blog and throughout the website, but one thing we’d like to touch on here is PHOTOS.
All genealogists will agree that it’s a wonderful thing to have a photo attached to an ancestor, because you might be able to learn more about them; or you might see family similarities in them; or quite simply you have another connection to the past.
Why not start to collect some photos today? First, go to your grandparents, parents, or cousins and ask them if they have any photos of your family. You’ll not only discover photos of your ancestors, but hopefully their siblings and others too. Next, go to onto genealogy message board and ask possible relations if they have any photographs. Remember that most families expand and expand and it’s highly likely that some cousins would have some of the family photos, and other cousins will have other family photos – do search these relations out! We can always help you.
After you’ve found some photos, always make sure you make a scanned copy of them and save them on a disc or on a website like Flickr – always have back ups. Photos are a wonderful thing to then pass onto your children and children’s children – and they don’t need the original!
Let us know how you have done, and how far you have managed to get with your photos!
Until next time…