Tag: family history

• 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.

  Vicki Entreken

  September 5, 2023

  Family Collections, Family History, Family Stories, Share Family Stories

  digitizing, Family archive, family collection, family history, genealogy, photographs, WeAre…, WeAre.xyz

• Fixing TVs wasn’t enough for my grandfather. He had to run for President.

  

  When Papa wanted something, he did what he could to get it, or build it, or he at least tried. I believed there was more to his run for the U.S. presidency than free publicity.

  Vicki Entreken

  March 10, 2023

  Family Collections, Family History, Family Stories, Research

  1952 Presidential Race, Carroll Shaw, dark horse, Family Collections, family history, family stories, research, U.S. President

• When you’re the kid of a photographer…

  

  My current digitization project is a lifelong collection of my dad’s photographs. While scanning, I came across a few quick observations on what it’s like to be the kid of a photographer.

  Vicki Entreken

  March 1, 2023

  Family Collections, Family History, Family Stories

  digitizing, family history, photographer, preservation project