I scanned a ton of pictures at Grandma Bonjour’s house this summer (really, over 2000 pictures). I haven’t been devoting my full attention to this project; moving, settling into Oslo, getting this website up and running, and raising two children have demanded most of my time lately. But I’ve been browsing and dating and organizing them on and off for the last 6 months. It was getting a little overwhelming, and the pay-off (that is, posting them to the website) was looking pretty far off on the horizon. Then I realized I didn’t need to date and organize all of them before I started putting them up. In fact, having some of them organized and grouped on the website should make the task of comparison-dating even easier! So, I will be putting up little batches of old pictures now and then.
I have really really enjoyed seeing and examining these pictures. There are some real gems. The scanned images make it much easier to notice interesting little details, too, like house numbers, or license plates, or even simple things like shoe styles. I love it! I feel so much closer to my heritage; I feel like these people really are a part of me, even though I hardly knew any of them. Preserving this information for the future (Ruby, C, and whoever else is to come) makes me feel really good.
I just put up my first few Schoeneman pictures.
I scanned a ton of pictures at Grandma Bonjour’s house this summer (really, over 2000 pictures). I haven’t been devoting my full attention to this project; moving, settling into Oslo, getting this website up and running, and raising two children have demanded most of my time lately. But I’ve been browsing and dating and organizing them on and off for the last 6 months. It was getting a little overwhelming, and the pay-off (that is, posting them to the website) was looking pretty far off on the horizon. Then I realized I didn’t need to date and organize all of them before I started putting them up. In fact, having some of them organized and grouped on the website should make the task of comparison-dating even easier! So, I will be putting up little batches of old pictures now and then.
I have really really enjoyed seeing and examining these pictures. There are some real gems. The scanned images make it much easier to notice interesting little details, too, like house numbers, or license plates, or even simple things like shoe styles. I love it! I feel so much closer to my heritage; I feel like these people really are a part of me, even though I hardly knew any of them. Preserving this information for the future (Ruby, C, and whoever else is to come) makes me feel really good.