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What do you do with that shoebox full of photos?
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Born a grandchild now a grandmother
Your life spans 5 generations
but you still have work to do.
YOU DAUGHTER GRAND DAUGHTER GRANDMOTHER MOTHER
If you do nothing… Your children will know about you
and
Your children will know something
about their grandparents
If you do nothing… Your grandkids will still know things
about you but the only thing they will know about your mother and your
grandmother are their names
But if you decide to put together a booklet of pictures
and stories These things will happen
Your kids will be happy to learn your complete life story as well as that of their
grandparents and
they will see that their four great grandmothers were real people
Your grandkids will thank you many times for your life story
made in pictures and text
and
that you have made their great grandparents people that they know
Lastly, your grandkids will get to
know about their great, great grandparents and their places
of origin in Europe
Okay, what is next? How do I get started?
Get out your old box of pictures that you have put off doing
anything with for so many years I know that you might not know all of the people in the pictures
Make a pile of pictures that include you, your spouse, your
kids, their spouses and their children
Start sorting the oldest pictures into grouping of your
four family groups
Your father’s family Your mother’s family Your husband’s father’s family Your husband’s mother’s family
Lastly, create a fifth pile for others
Then put each group in roughly chronological order
When you are done you will have six
groups of pictures each in
a column downward according to the age of the picture
Who are these people?
What about those pictures that you don’t know who they are?
(This is the hard part.)
If other family members can’t help and the local historical
society is not able to help you either
you might have throw them away
Unfortunately, even if your sentimentality makes you save
these images of unknown people
the succeeding generations will toss these pictures
Some of my grandmother’s pictures were saved because
my mother and I sat down and wrote names on some of
these pictures Unfortunately some have been
tossed away
Start writing the names, dates and locations on picture backs
Start with the groups first and then
do individuals last
As you start to put pictures in order remember that this is just temporary. Pictures will be moved around and some will be taken out as you plan and then attach your family
groups to blank paper sheets.
This is how one picture from each family group or subgroup
looks today My family today
Start with a picture of you and your spouse
Next put a picture of your children as they are now
PICTURE OF our FAMILY
Our family today Three children, their spouses and
grandchild Kate
My parents, brothers and me
My wife and her parents
Pictures of my father’s family
PICTURE OF FATHER’S FAMILY
Pictures of my mother’s family
Pictures of my wife’s father’s family
This is my wife’s mother family
Now get some blank typing paper and scotch tape.
Tape current pictures of your family: You, your spouse, your children and their families on pages based on chronology.
Remember to label each picture in your final copy.
Make sure that you include the names that you know and a question mark for those that you don’t know. Try to include the date and place of
each picture.
These pages can later be placed in a photo album or scrapbook that has pages that are a full page pocket.
Each family group page will be of an earlier time than the page after it.
Your first chapter is that of your current family.
This will include you, your spouse, your children and grandchildren.
Great grandchildren are also welcome.
Your second chapter Tape down pictures from your
dad’s family.
Your third chapter Tape down pictures of your
mother’s family
Your fourth and fifth chapters Tape down pictures of the two sides of your spouse’s family
each in separate chapters. Get your spouse involved.
Go to a self copy place like an Office Depot to get an idea of
how you are doing. Copy your chapters,
Review what you have done. This a real good start.
Make improvement before taking your pages to the color copier.
This completes the photo journaling part of the process.
If you choose to continue, supplemental materials are provided on the next slides.
As you look at your finished photo album, it will give you a feeling of
accomplishment. However, you will notice that you could do
more. The rest of the presentation will give you more information on how to add to your completed
photo album.
As you work try to reflect on the people that you knew well
family details
and
favorite stories
In a notebook or a computer Microsoft Word file start to write down
your thoughts about some of these people
Taking my photo album I started to write stories about groups and individuals within
these groups.
Look at some of the pages
This is what I did with my Real People booklet that you have seen
here today.
Putting some stories together with the photos might be all you want to
do for your family.
The next slides will show you some more things you could add to your
booklet of photos and stories.
At the end of the presentation is another idea of how you could write a personal story of your life using small
stories from your life time.
In the photo book I have added Maps of Local Interest
I also included some extra pictures of certain places
Maps of Countries of Origin
Pictures of Earlier Homes
Family Genealogy
Chart I - Your parents and grandparents Chart 2 – Your children and your
grandchildren
Chart 3- Your siblings
A family genealogy chart of the earlier generations
Start with your grandparents, parents and you
YOU
MOTHER FATHER
GRANDMOTHER GRANDFATHER
GRANDMOTHER GRANDFATHER
A genealogy chart of your current family
include your children and their
children
YOU SPOUSE
DAUGHTER SPOUSE SPOUSE SON SPOUSE SON
DAUGHTER SON DAUGHTER SON DAUGHTER SON
Make a chart of your siblings and their spouses and their children
also Add your spouse’s siblings, spouses
and their children
SPOUSE’S SISTER
HER SPOUSE
YOU SPOUSE HIS
SPOUSE YOUR
BROTHER
DAUGHTER SON DAUGHTER SON DAUGHTER SON
Good job! You have a great feeling of
accomplishment but you will want to keep adding the
original.
This is my final version or
“so I thought”
George Burns wrote a book called, “ One hundred stories
for one hundred years” He simply wrote stories from
his life. At this time I was sixty years old
so I thought I would write sixty stories
Jimmy Carter showed me a neat way of planning his writing. He took a word like baseball
which he made into his chapter heading. Then he thought of
stories from his life that had to do with baseball.
Some other chapters in his book 1. White House vacations
2. Sharing my faith 3. Watching birds together 4. Navy life 5. Fly fishing
I made lists of my life experiences that were funny,
serious, rewarding or just everyday stories
As I reflected and started writing more stories came to
mind When I was done there were
236 stories
I made lists of my life experiences that were funny,
serious, rewarding or just everyday stories
As I reflected and started writing more stories came to
mind When I was done there were
236 stories
An example of something funny
1. Egged at work 2. 2Finger stuck in helmet
3. 3.Where is my favorite player? 4. 4. Soaked in a hammock
An example of a serious event
1. My window was closed 2. 2. My three kids and weed killer
3. 3Three bad falls 4. 4. A woman needed help
An example of something that I am proud of
1 A softball team 2 Principal for a week
3. All three with their masters 4. Helping her mother
An example of a general interest story
1. Fergie , a cool guy 2. No hockey
3. The insult that sent me to college 4.Her finest moment
Now you are done!
You have something to be proud of as you give your children their own copy. Your relatives might also be interested in their own copy too.