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agree with you there darren. i've got a picture of my grandparents wedding from 1926. they are the only ones i know on the foto of about 40 people. what a real shame they didn't write on the back.

I thought this was an apt. verse for this topic. STRANGERS IN THE BOX. Come look with me inside this drawer, In this box I've often seen, At the pictures,black and white, Faces proud, still, serene. I wish I knew the people, These strangers in the box. Their names and all their memories Are lost among my socks. I wonder what their lives were like, How did they spend their days? What about their special times? I'll never know their ways. If only someone had taken time to tell, Who, what, where or when, These faces of my heritage Would come to like again. Could this become the fate Of the pictures we take today? The faces and the memories, Someday to be passed away? Make time to save your stories, Seize the opportunity when it knocks, Or someday you and yours could be THE STRANGERS IN THE BOX. Sorry it's so long but I thought it was very sad. Jill

Elaine Are you still there? For a birthday present, my wife made me a patchwork quilt using photos of 4 generations from my family. I offered her more but she said it would make too big a quilt. Len

Hi yes I do of my gr gr gr grandparents and I scarily a spitting image of my gr gr gr grandma!

Like most folk here I've got lots of old photos with no names on them so being a trusting soul I asked my mother if she could name them - big mistake - she wrote their names on the FRONT, well she tried! The oldest picture we have is my gran with her mother in 1902/3 also one in about 1927 with my mum age about 4/5, with her mum, grandmother and ggran. Very buxom women in those days. Jean

We Have lots of photos and lithographs - one back to the late 1700's. I have also received photos from rellies who found me on GC. Couple of suggestions. When you write the names on the back of photos don't use an ordinary pen! The ink could, in time, leach through. Use an acid free pen you can buy from many photographer's, good stationery stores or stores that deal in genealogy books. Another tip I got from a genealogy session - NEVER ever put your photos in one of the cheap albums they sell which use a plastic cover sheet. They are not acid free and the photos stick like glue to the plastic and the acid in the back ruins the photo. We were told to garbage them and get black, acid free or good cartridge paper (even the coloured sketch pads) and use corners, not glue, to attach. I had lots of photos ruined by my mother because she stuck them in an album using sellotape. Wrecked the front and left a sticky mess.

Yes - I was very pleased at Christmas when my mum produced another box of family stuff and we found a photo of my gt grandfather. Very interesting as I hadn't known it existed and he looks decidedly Welsh - widow's peak and v. dark hair. As his surname was Williams and he lived in Gloucestershire, I had often surmised that the family were originally Welsh and he certainly looks it! My grandfather took after his mother's side though. I also have a photo of my other gt grandfather on my mother's side, on his wedding day with his bride. For some unaccountable reason she is wearing her veil over her face, so you can't see what she looks like, though I do have another photo of her and she is very like her daughter my grandmother. On my dad's side I have photos of his parents, and his dad's parents. They, and my grandfather and some siblings, are grouped on and around a cart and donkey outside what looks like a barn. As the men are wearing buttonholes and the women look smart I assume it was a family wedding, but no idea whose. Sadly, I have no photos of my dad's mum's parents - although her mother looked after my dad when he was little, she died when he was 7. Even sadder, her first husband, my gt grandfather, died at the age of 40 in 1879 and all that is left of him - apart from his descendants - is his name on 3 certificates, 3 censuses, and a small para about his inquest in the local paper. nell

I have quite a lot of pictures from about 1880 onwards. My Great Grandparents Wedding photo 1896, my Nan when she was 2 years old in 1899, Mum and her sisters and brother when they were growing up in the 20's and 30's. As Ive managed to track more family down they have been sending me pictures of Great Uncles and cousins too. Sheila

I have one ,hung on the wall of my gt grandfather ,his wife and all their children [5] taken in High wycombe in the late 1800s,this was my mothers family [Barnes] But the baird side is photo free for some reason,apart from my parents wedding whick does have the parents of both families.Fred.ptfg.

Hi Elaine. My study wall is full of them. Some are of my Ozzie Ancestors. Some are of my Canadian Ancestors. ( Winnipeg,) But the majority are U.K sent to me, by Relo connections in England and Ireland. I am very proud and lucky to have them, and display them on my study wall. Cheers. Tony Oz

I was sent a picture of my grandparents that was took with my dad and his siblings and another one with my gr gran and my grandmother and her sister annie as I have just made contact with my gran's sister's grandson they live in New Zealand and I have just made contact with my dad's cousins I seen them when I was 4yrs old