Category: Family History
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Recovered image lets me see my grandfather’s face for the first time.
[1 minute read] For the first time in my life, I can see my grandfather, Darryl Ervin Cravey. He died 28 years ago today. Whoever you were, RIP.
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You did it WNC! The Swannanoa Wedding Album will soon be back with its family!! 🩷🩷
I was ready to search through 40,000 photographs for wedding shots. Juls Buckman was prepared to map out addresses in a 5-mile up-river area to match a house number from one of the photos. When Juls called me yesterday, I was cropping close-ups of the bride and groom from scans to post in another round…
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Shared more than 1.4K times on social media, WNC wants this muddy wedding album returned to its owners.
The neighborhood is unrecognizable from one residence to the next. A surviving street sign marks where a road used to be. We walked down a mud-covered path, making sure to step within the tracks of the large trucks, past a tent city where volunteers unloaded two sheds from a flatbed truck.
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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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A Forgotten Galveston Home: Memoir Excerpt
There’s no way to know what went on in the Cravey family by looking at internet pictures of the front of a house. Technology doesn’t provide that information for us.
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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.