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15
Sep

Meet My Great-Great Grandmother on Her Wedding Day Circa 1920

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Meet Norah West, my great-great grandmother on her wedding day in the 1920s. My grandma has told me stories of Norah which always make me smile. She was an avid smoker, never seen without a cigarette in her mouth and she loved her husband, Arthur Tebbett, tremendously. In fact, she loved him so much that […]

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13
Sep

Family Legacy is Carried on Through The Stories We Tell

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A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you. -Shannon L. Alder Meet my grandmother, Beva Juanita Gant Kiger Cheuvront. She is standing in the middle, alongside her parents, sister and brother. Her mother and father were Roxie and Clarence. Sadly, Roxie was lost to Brights Disease as […]

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12
Sep

A Step-by-Step Guide to Digitizing and Sharing your Old Family Movies

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If you digitize your family archives but don’t share them, are you really preserving them? Simply put, the answer is NO. Your old analog photos and videos are treasure troves of memories. In fact, they are stories waiting to be brought to life. So digitizing them is only half the battle. Once they are digitized, you need to take the […]

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10
Sep

Researching My Family History Helps Me Understand Who I Am and Where I Am Going

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Lew Galloway (1883-1962) was my great grandfather, my father’s grandfather. I never met him; he died a decade before I was born. Growing up in a small town in western Kansas, I knew the old-timers who knew Lew. They spoke of him in a way that made him seem larger than life. I have his […]

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09
Sep

Professional Filmmakers Explain How to Bring Your Family Photo Archive Back to Life.

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Your memories may be in danger. Here’s why: memories are the strongest links to your ancestors, but they disappear if you don’t preserve them. And old family photos are like little time machines; they transport you to a place called memory. Recently, I experienced this time-travel firsthand when I went to visit my 101-year-old grandmother. I took […]

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08
Sep

What Every Family Historian Should Know about Scanning Family Photos

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You’ve been staring at the box for months. It’s starting to make you feel a bit guilty. You scoot it under your bed so it won’t stare at you every day. Then your mother calls and asks you about it. “Have you had a chance to start scanning those family photos? The family reunion is coming […]

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03
Sep

What We Can All Learn by Looking at the World Through a Child’s Eyes

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This photo was taken at Fort Hood, Texas in 1958. It’s my Dad with his childhood friend, Bubba. Their birthdays were close to one another, so my grandmother and Bubba’s mother decided to have a joint birthday party. Grandma told me they needed special permission to have the party. Race was never an issue when […]

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