For those of you who might be interested (Hi! and Hi!), I’ve started a new blog at Images Past where I will be posting from my huge collection of old family photos.

I’m trying to practice what I preach about labelling and cataloguing a collection of precious family pictures so that they survive for future generations.  There should be a few interesting stories along the way.  I will also be looking into archival storage for my photos – acid free boxes will be purchased and newspaper clippings banished to their own folders (the ink damages pictures).  I’m also learning about optimal scanning for minimal damage.

Please drop by and meet Jackie Jackdaw and see if you can translate a Polish signature for me.

Thanks

Jo

I’m feeling a little creative

Though I’m probably wasting my time

Cos nobody’s reading my blog

It’s just an amusement of mine.

I spout off whatever I’m thinking

Regardless how pointless or daft

If anyone actually read it

They’d think me a little bit “saft”.

I need to get going on The Content

And make sure it’s interesting stuff

To get the wee blog going & cooking

And seeming a little less duff.

I’ve got a long list of Scots rellies

They’ve all been deceased for a while

I need to make contact with others

Who come from the Family Pile.

So check out the family name list

And see if we might be of kin

And if the blog doesn’t suit you

Just stick me direct in your bin

I’ve already blogged about the little notebook I inherited which gives some family history details on the Stevens family from Fife, Scotland, and since then I’ve had contact from two relatives (hello Chris and Paul!) so I thought I would add some more details in the hope that we find more people researching these names

I’ll do the first page on this post:

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Thanks to Thomas MacEntee at Geneabloggers for his meme on “What I Do”