[or-roots] I like the old photos too!

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Hi Listers,
I have been lurking for years on this board and rarely say anything but 
the old photos thing got me.
I love the old photos and have quite a collection of unidentified 
photos of people in Oregon and Washington and was thinking it would be 
nice to have a website devoted to just NW photos. I know that I am 
always looking for my families photos and bibles and it would be nice 
to see what other Oregonians have in their collections.
My grandmother's unmarried sister's trunk full of old photos, postcards 
and hair sample book, (she was trying her hand at hair weaving that was 
popular then, so I have actually touched the hair of her parents who 
were my grt grt grandparents). A cousin's family saved this trunk all 
these years with contents untouched. I received a copy of all the 
photos and have been able to identify some of them and share some of 
them with descendants of my grt aunt's friends. I sent one lady a copy 
of just her ancestor's siblings and she was thrilled! I've talked to so 
many people who's family didn't receive any of the old family photos 
and felt kind of bad about it. So, this trend to share these old photos 
and get them identified is just great. I keep doing it in hopes that my 
family bibles and things will surface. I just recently bought an old 
album when I was in Lincoln City last weekend. It is a beautiful old 
victorian album with the celuloid front cover and the velvet back with 
tin types in the back of the album and only two photos with a name 
written on the back. The surnames involved are BETTERTON and COOPER or 
COPPLE. Most of the paper photos were taken in Missouri. I'm working on 
finding the family but it might not be as easy as I thought. In my 
spare time I also check the sites out there and then search the family 
trees on Rootsweb and leave a post-it telling them about their family 
photos and where they are. I just hate to see them sit when they could 
be going home. : )
Thanks for listening!
Linda Purvis
Beaverton, OR
OR-HUNT,DOWNING,ESTEP,QUEENER,EDWARDS,BIDDIX,  WA-REDDICK,WEAVER,SPENCER

-----Original Message-----
From: glenkc7mbm at comcast.net
To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
Sent: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:30:03 +0000
Subject: Re: [or-roots] old photos 2

   Ronda
  If you have any idea where they might have been taken, such as here in 
Oregon you could take the to the Historical Society and they might be 
able to help, I have some I need to take in, they offered to help see 
if they could Identify.
 Glen Portland 
  
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Glen A. Jones
  
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From: "Denise Merritt" <merritthome1 at cableone.net>
   Save the old photos - someday you might find someone who has a 
matching one.  (I'm an optimist).  What a neat find!
  
 Denise
 ----- Original Message -----
 From: Ronda Howard
 To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
 Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 8:48 AM
 Subject: Re: [or-roots] old photos 2


  I have a related question for you all.  While cleaning out my 86 year 
old Mother-in-law's house we found her Mother-in-law's pictures.  They 
were inside a blanket box 20 x 20 x 6.  There's at least 200 pictures 
inside, all are on that 1/8 inch hardboard that old pictures are on.  
I'd say the pictures are 80 to 120  years old and haven't seen the 
light of day for decades.  I plan to scan them.  Actually I scanned 1/2 
of them but the scanner was defective and there are streaks through the 
pictures.  What do I do with the actual pictures.  Good for all of you 
who are labeling your pictures.  80% of these are not identified, which 
makes me sad.  I know I'd absolutely love to know who these relatives 
are. 
 Ronda
 ----- Original Message -----
 From: George Ross
 To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
 Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 9:43 PM
 Subject: Re: [or-roots] old photos


  When putting together our family history photos we begin each 
generational family with the family group sheet.  The photos are added 
after the group sheet beginning with photos of the parents and then 
photos of the children.  We also add documents such as birth  
certificates, BLM land claims, letters, citations from books, wills, 
census records, etc. and end with the death certificate(s) and 
obituary(ies) and photos of grave stones when they are available.  Then 
we begin the next family.
  
  There is always a question of "how many photos" to add or "is it too 
much information", but with the older family ancestors we don't usually 
have a problem deciding what to use.
  
  We use only two acid free squares when we attach our photos.(That's 
the same when scrapbooking our recent photos, too, as we know the 
photos won't fall out of the sheet protectors).  We also have acid free 
clear photo corners that we use if we don't want to have the squares 
stick to the photo. I have been using black background paper or a tan 
color for most of my background sheets when doing my heritage albums.  
I will use special scrapbooking paper for wedding photos. For my 
heritage albums I do very simple pages and include the names of the 
individuals and approximate date and location, if known. I've also seen 
some lovely pages that should be hung on a wall and not hidden in a 
book.
  
  There is no "real" way to do your albums.  No moderator is going to 
ask you if "that's your final answer, do you want to phone a friend or 
take an audience poll" when you are deciding what to use and where to 
place things.  Just doing it will allow others the opportunity of 
looking at an organized glimpse into the past in future years.
  
 Good Luck! Julie