Working on the MasterClass on Digital Photo Organizing with MemoryWeb has taught me a few things. It’s reinforced my love for using a digital photo organizer because it makes it so easy to find the exact image I’m looking for when it’s needed. But it also helped me see my research deficits.
In the process of “cataloging” all my images I found some long lost images. The steps in the process made me realize what I have and what I’m missing in the way of family history information for some of the images.
The goal of my research for a long time was to focus on discovering my paternal grandmother’s family history from her back. Unfortunately, that means that I didn’t collect all the details for more recent generations. It’s easy to think of the past and not the present. Now, all that research on her family did result in me becoming a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. But as I tagged photos of her siblings I wondered about them? AND why I didn’t have photos of all of them.
It was the rediscovery of images of her sisters and my grandmother’s obituary with the names of her pallbearers that woke me up. Visualize me hitting my hand on my forehead here. I realized that some of her sibling’s descendants might still be living. Since I live in the area that’s home to many of them I’ve been working at lightning speed trying to find those folks. Hope I’m not too late.
It’s the organizer that made me see the holes in the story.
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About Maureen Taylor:
Maureen is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London and Canada. She’s the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View and The Today Show (where she researched and presented a com
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