Grandparents photo album

crazycatlady22

crazycatlady22

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I have inherited my grandparents photo album and as I am the only person in the family who is interested in family history research I am sure that when I die the album will end up at the tip. The photo album has over 200 photos of people with no names attached, so, I have no idea of who they are. Does anybody know of a way that I can ensure that the photos in the album can be saved.
 
crazycatlady22 said:
I have inherited my grandparents photo album and as I am the only person in the family who is interested in family history research I am sure that when I die the album will end up at the tip. The photo album has over 200 photos of people with no names attached, so, I have no idea of who they are. Does anybody know of a way that I can ensure that the photos in the album can be saved.
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so Crazycatlady22, perhaps you could save photos to discs- several & send to a person in each branch of your Family. maybe one day there will be another you with a mission to find out who,why,where from etc. If not it may still rotate around until someone does look into it. (have you exhausted all sideshoots as well as direct linage?)

Another way is to send your photos to ..oh help Sue Y. I've forgotten the web of old photos which you once posted on another forum......
What about facebook, they seem to have an entry into everywhere. You can ask if anyone knew these people etc.
Or Francis Frith, he also has a page on remembering various places with photos.

Then again, why not post them here in an album with any names or dates/places which you can, & see what eventuates. They'll be there for however & not lost.

Forgot, if you post your G'Parents names & any other 'married into's' that you know of, this may help in identifying people.
 
Thank you Wendy,

I wasn't sure if this website could cope with 200 unidentified photos. I might start to add them in another album on this site, and I might also check out the Francis Frith website and see if they could be of assistance. My Mother was an only surviving child and it is her parents photo album. I was lucky that some of the photographs did have notations on them - like the ones that I have already added to my album. The only relatives that I have been able to make contact with have been relatives on my Fathers side. I have been unable to make contact with any cousins from my Mothers side. Tho, now that I think of it there are quite a lot of people who are researching the Templeton family and they are on my Mothers side.

Thanks again
 
Thanks Doug, but all of the photographs are probably from Bradford or Leeds and I think that Trove is only interested in Australian photos. I am only a first generation Ozzie, my Mum and Dad migrated in 1949 and Mums parents came out in 1955.
 
Maybe upload them to Flickr or similar. Not ideal but gets them on to to google search engines etc.
 
Doug said:
Maybe upload them to Flickr or similar. Not ideal but gets them on to to google search engines etc.
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Excellent idea.

Also, think about an independent website. I know that there are free ones out there. The advantage of adding research to an online website is the Internet Archive will visit your site regularly and will archive the website for ever. ;)
 
If you think a lot of them relate to Leeds, how about contacting Leodis, which is a photographic archive for Leeds - leodis.net/ (www in front) - and see if they may be interested.

Ann
 
Had a lookabout & found this website which I referred to earlier. (thanks SueY)
http://www.
ancientfaces.com/

You need to sign up, but it's free & holds a wealth of old photos. In your case also you'd need to mention your Maternal family name of Templeton to give people a starting clue, ..or not, better if they came up with names unprodded :)

Take lunch- it's another site which leads you away from the daily chores.
 
You never know who may turn up and be interested in the photos from your mum's side, maybe a 'twig'....

A few years ago I was passed photos that belonged to my great Aunt (my grandma's sister) and her husband. Their only son died several years before them at a young age. My gt Uncle was an only child as well, so because I was interested in genealogy they passed to me and now I have lots of photos from my Uncle's side who I don't know.

I am hoping to look into his family tree as he was the last of that surname in his line which is really sad and I would hate for them to be 'lost' to time :(.

When I was last in the Bradford Family History Library, I spoke to them about some of the photos being of Bradford on VE Day and that I should pass them onto the Yks Archives but the library themselves said they would like them so next time I up there, will donate them.

Also, I keep telling my boys snippets so if one of them eventually becomes 'more interested' than they are now, they will have some idea - I live in hope... :rolleyes:

Karen
 
crazycatlady22

P.S. Ancient faces site does already have some Templeton photos, so you may be able to match some of yours.
(confession,I copypasted your title to this page)
 
Whatever you do digitally (and any - or all of the options suggested here sound really suitable) once you've done it you could consider giving the album to your local FH society. I know that our FHS takes photos albums as well as unwanted family research. Alternatively, you could take it down to the RAHS in Macquarie Street or SAG in Kent Street (?), Sydney, and donate it to them. If you're ever up this way the University of Newcastle has a terrific archives and their flicker site with over 50,000 images is up to nearly a million hits a month. They're not all from Australia either. University of Western Sydney may have something similar.

I know they're mostly non-Australian and it would be better to get them to a family member but at least they would be saved. Could you start to brainwash someone in the family to take up the baton from you? Start the hard-sell now?

Jane
 
AnnB said:
If you think a lot of them relate to Leeds, how about contacting Leodis, which is a photographic archive for Leeds - leodis.net/ (www in front) - and see if they may be interested.

Ann
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Indeed, an excellent website relevant to Leeds and District. It was a real find for me when I began researching my family history. Lovely to see old photos of an area that I know well.

Visitors to the site leave comments so there may be some who are able to identify some of the people in the photos :)
 
Thank you to everyone for all of your suggestions. I will get on to it today. I did try to join Flickr last night but they require a mobile phone number as part of the registration. Guess who doesn't own a mobile phone? I know, where have I been? I don't own a camera or a mobile phone, but at least I have a computer.:confused:
 
You never know who may want your photo Album, when my Mother was alive she was fairly interested in her Family Tree and much to my sadness now, at the time showed, and indeed, had very little interest. Now my knowledge of our family tree is growing be the day, if not by the hour. Indeed tracked down the Sons of my great Grandfathers nurse children in Australia. One of these sons sent me some "family" photo's which I had never seen before.
Some time things work out differently to what one expects.
Some excellent advise on here to ensure your legacy is enjoyed by all of interest: arryboy
 
Having briefly looked at Doug's link to Trove, what a wonderful idea, if only the English Government or indeed some individual could start something like this for, say, The British Isles. Unfortunately I don't have the IT skills to do it. Any Idea's out there from anybody????????????
 
arryboy said:
Having briefly looked at Doug's link to Trove, what a wonderful idea, if only the English Government or indeed some individual could start something like this for, say, The British Isles. Unfortunately I don't have the IT skills to do it. Any Idea's out there from anybody????????????
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No idea at all but to add your photos to Trove you must add them to Flickr and tag them first and then add them to the group "Trove: Australia in Pictures" and they eventually end up on Trove searches. It works 'cause I've done it with some rare ones from my husband's family. (There was a fire in the property that destroyed all the family images except those held by his father who had married and was not living in the house!) This little bit of infor might help ... but I didn't check Doug's link and he might have linked to adding images and not to the Trove itself! :oops:

Just checked and he did but mine is a (very brief) summary of the basics. :D
Jane
 
I've been having a lovely browse through your photos, found a W>A.Brown photographer & son with large family most in the business, son of Joseph Brown a photographer.
1881 -Salford
RG11; Piece: 3938; Folio: 117; Page: 55

William A Brown, 16 photographer brother to Josseph also photographer
1891- SAlford
RG12; Piece: 406; Folio: 178; Page: 4;

1911- 11 Alan rd,-Manchester wife Ellen (nee Brown) from Kent
RG14; Piece: 23690.

William Arthur Brown died 3rd Nov, 1928 Withington, probate Manchester to widow Jane Ellen Elizabeth & Arthur Graham Brown photographer.

A few good shots of football groups one of which may bob up here, (Sharpe's LTD 1910 written on ball.)
https://images.nationalarchives.gov...ryTypeId=3&filter&page=2&pageSize=20&filterId
 
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