Family Photos

As a documenter, I took a lot of photographs in my youth, of my travels, my years in the Navy and of course of the family. All the ones that I took, as well as those that were passed down or given to me by others, totaled about 7,000 photos which I put into a series of almost 40 albums covering the period from the 1890s up to 2015.

These hard-cover albums were not very user friendly as they were bulky, heavy, unwieldy and difficult to share. So, I went through them all and selected about 70% of them to digitize. I then labeled and organized them chronologically and by theme theme into one CD covering 1890 to 2015 and later another covering 2016 to 2023.

Hoping that they would have the most value to our children, I organized many of the folders by the ages of the children so they could better identify with them. I value these photos as an integral part of our family history.

The CD photo albums and Indexes are shown below.