Category: Family Collections
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Pulling Photos from a Flood
One heartbreaking loss during major floods and storms is that of photographs and memories. Of course family albums and pictures become an afterthought when our lives are interrupted by having no power, waiting in long lines for fuel, staring at the cell phone in hopes of getting a signal or better, an actual text. In…
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Preserving a Photographer’s Family Collection
Dad can take one look at a picture tube and in seconds say, “The color is off.” He’d fiddle with the knobs and fix it within minutes. I can’t see what he sees. I’d suck at that job. Maybe that’s why he had me sorting tubes in the back hallway.
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10 Steps to hanging your family history wall
A project like this can be overwhelming and easy to put off. I broke it into stages so you can at least start on the first stage and immediately earn bragging rights.
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Mission to save family collections
It broke my Aunt Leah’s heart to have to toss so many family histories into the trash. Picturing her doing it breaks mine too.
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Ugly divorces, deeds, leases. They’re all abstract until you find the Abstract.
This abstract includes records as far back as 1882 when the U.S. Patent Office conveyed 160 acres to Joseph H. Brooker from the United States of America. Brooker paid $200! Imagine if you could pay $1.25 for an acre today.
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Project: Abandonment Collection
When your writing is haunted by abandonment, you don’t share it. You don’t toss it. You bury it in a secret box with the rest of your horrible memories.