Handling Inherited Photos & Journals

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@suzannefry6431 4 ай бұрын

I feel like the greatest payoffs to sorting the chaos have been the relationships that are built as a part of the process, both with ancestors of the past and with current family members.

@AncestryAimee 4 ай бұрын

Love that! Thanks again Sue for sharing your experiences and ideas in this video! You're the best!!

@jennichristie5264 4 ай бұрын

My husband inherited a whole suitcase full of pics and bibles and certificates and family trees from his mother who’d done a lot of research pre internet research. What a treasure trove as images from so many decades and even centuries back into the 1800s and beyond. Many were unlabelled but luckily they were separated into family groups already. In the identifying process I had to group photos by type and photographer and places of studio to narrow down which family members they were. Then group the same people across eras as they aged. Complicated but challenging and fun! Scanned into family groups and those scans labelled as best as I can guess if not enough info on the images themselves. Then I put some of them up into ancestry programs for everyone who was interested to have access.

@AncestryAimee 4 ай бұрын

Love this!!!! Thanks so much for sharing your experience and method of attack!

@DavidWilliamsaz 4 ай бұрын

The difference between a photos being WORTHLESS OR PRICELESS is knowing who is in the PHOTO

@AncestryAimee 4 ай бұрын

So true!

@karenmcdonald9174 4 ай бұрын

Aimee, thanks for doing this video with your cousin Sue. I have ADHD and have tried so many different methods to organize the photos. They didn't work for me. I feel overwhelmed so easily and just getting started sometimes feels like drowning. These ideas are so easy and common sense. You have no idea how much this video helped me. Tell you're cousin I said Thanks too

@AncestryAimee 4 ай бұрын

Love it! So glad to hear that. Thanks for taking the time to tell Sue and me.

@patranye 4 ай бұрын

In don't have so many pictures, but I do have some letters that my dad wrote to mom from when he was in the army in Korea. They weren't even engaged at the time. This has given me the motivation to do like she did and get them into text and share them with my siblings and children. Thanks Aimee and Cousin Sue!

@AncestryAimee 4 ай бұрын

Love it!!!

@karyntracy6111 4 ай бұрын

Great ideas. You’ve made my task of organizing my photos feel a little less daunting. I also love the idea of reading my grandma’s journals into Google as a way to preserve them. Thanks for the great information. ❤

@AncestryAimee 4 ай бұрын

So glad this has helped!!

@olivemaycards Ай бұрын

Great tips, thank you! It takes some time and patience to work through photos when you don’t know who you’re looking at, but I found that after some time I started to better recognize the young faces of my relatives and make connections (with help from other family members). Great tip for the journals. I also used dictation tech to digitize my own journals too - my iPad can turn voice to text so I read my old journals into a digital journal program (DayOne) so they’re all together and searchable. Much faster than typing for me.

@AncestryAimee Ай бұрын

Great suggestions! Thanks for sharing them!

@jacoblawrence6580 4 ай бұрын

Great video! I have most of the photos that my grandparent's had. My grandmother had over 60 albums in a closet, not to mention albums in her cedar chest, Frames, boxes and drawers full of pictures. I went through all of the photos and gave away ones to my cousins, Aunt's, Uncles and even my Dad and his sibling's cousins. The funny thing is that all of the photos had duplicates (even the ones from the 1940's and 50's). I also got rid of all the bad blurry photos of tree's, people's heads chopped off, landscape shots etc.). I still have more to go through. I am working on a scrapbook album for me, one for my Mom, one for my Dad, One for my Mom's side of the family and one for my Dad's side of the family.

@AncestryAimee 4 ай бұрын

Wow! That’s ALOT! Way to go!! Good luck with your albums.

@denisepayne7283 4 ай бұрын

Great information. I'm sorting through my pictures now.

@AncestryAimee 4 ай бұрын

Good luck!

@staceyfriend6026 4 ай бұрын

I have pictures of my dad's side of the family. Many include my 2nd great grandparents. I still need to sort many pictures

@AncestryAimee 4 ай бұрын

What a treasure!!

@richardalexander969 4 ай бұрын

Aimee and Cousin Sue, thank you for this video, very helpful regarding sorting and timeline grid. I need to watch it a few more times and take some notes as well. You did not mention having the computer type the journal as you read it out loud to make an audio recording or was it transcribing your words to text?

@AncestryAimee 4 ай бұрын

She used a Google doc i think and did words to text.

@beepbopboop3221 3 ай бұрын

Would you include postcards in this group of documents? I recently found family photos on etsy. I recognized the names on the back. I only found them because someone uploaded the photo to family search. The seller is sending me the rest that haven't sold.

@AncestryAimee 3 ай бұрын

Sure! You could do that. Congrats on finding those family photos! That’s terrific!

@DavidWilliamsaz 4 ай бұрын

My Aunt had a old journal from the 19th Century I encouraged her to donate it to Church History Department of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

@AncestryAimee 4 ай бұрын

They are thrilled to digitize for you. They will even return things like that if you want. Thanks for adding that!

@randywallis-vd2ez 4 ай бұрын

Aimee I was given 5,000 pictures after my mother passed, she had been given pictures from my grandmother and G aunts. I spent one whole winter scanning and labeling pictures. I made files for each of my siblings, parents, nieces nephews and other family members. After all were scanned and I finished my paternal grandparents I gave my siblings & some of my cousins a flash drive and the paper pictures that pertained to them. I’m not saying they were not glad to get them but it’s been 3 years and iv only had a couple of comments. I had several pictures I was not able to identify but they got those also. One of my favorites was a Tintype of my GG grandfather. Thanks for your videos Randy

@AncestryAimee 4 ай бұрын

I love tintypes! How neat. You’re not alone. So many don’t seem to care. I look at like I’m preserving and discovering my ancestry for the ones who do care that come after me. Who knows who will have the genealogy bug. So glad you preserved your family stuff!

@rover790 4 ай бұрын

Do b t feel disheartened by your family's lack of interest. One of their children or childrens spouses might be the one that will be thrilled to use them and work on the family tree. I made contact with a lady working research on her husbands GGrandfather, my grandfathers brother's tree. Once we worked out the connection she put all the family photos and letters onto a USB stick and posted to me. Those were my greatest treasures, as they contained letters and photos my grandfather had sent to his family in England

@AncestryAimee 4 ай бұрын

@rover790 that’s wonderful! What a terrific story!!! Thanks so much for sharing it.

@suzannechalifoux8587 4 ай бұрын

I inherited lots of photos and experienced the same thing as been overwhelmed. So I understand totally. I did quite the same way in sorting and scanning. It took time for the scanning because I wanted it to be searchable with the date and names of persons on the photos. After that, I decided to offer my two grown kids each a family album. One to be of me and my husband when young and throughout our family life. So the double were very useful. Now I am preparing a second for each of them by separating by family groups or by ancestors couples. Genealogy never gets out of my head! LOL. I also put the scanned pictures on Ancestry under each person to share with others. A long project but so fun to do, one picture at a time. LOL Thank you for the sharing of this video, it’s reassuring to see that we are not alone having this situation.

@AncestryAimee 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for your great suggestions!! Way to go with your family stuff! Glad you enjoyed the video.

@MissKitty2024 4 ай бұрын

I had a ton of photos to go through after my mom passed. I started by separting mom's from dad's relatives. Then I scanned all of Dad's family into digital format, renamed the files with names of people in photos, created a new Google account just for them & uploaded them to that account's Google Photos. Then I shared them with every cousin for whom I had an email address for & they had permission to share the link as well. It's been 5 years since doing that. I hope they're enjoying them.

@AncestryAimee 4 ай бұрын

That’s wonderful!!! Way to go!

@jennieadamsMM 4 ай бұрын

I’m so happy to have found this video. I have a plastic tub size. What m doing is dividing the pictures and will send them to each child. There are so many I don’t think I can afford albums. I’ll have to think about that. Thank you for this video. 🤗💖🦋

@AncestryAimee 4 ай бұрын

So happy it has helped you! Thanks for taking the time to comment.

@rover790 4 ай бұрын

This was an excellent video, thank you Aimee.

@AncestryAimee 4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!

@lindafarnes486 4 ай бұрын

I'm wondering what to do with my father's photo album from his service in the Korean War.

@AncestryAimee 4 ай бұрын

Wow! I would recommend that you take an image of the page in the album. That way it has the context of the other things around it. And then, if there’s other pictures that you want better scan of, then you can scan those individually. Some scanners have software that allow you to isolate each picture on a page, saving you that second step.

@lindafarnes486 4 ай бұрын

@@AncestryAimee I'll look into doing that. Thanks.