In Honor Of My Mother. So where do you start in creating an heirloom page? You start with a photo of the item, or perhaps multiple views of the item. Make sure to leave plenty of room for journaling. Have you inherited a family heirloom? .

Provenance Matters - Part I. Knowing where something came from and whose hands it passed through before it arrived in your archives can tell you a lot about its creator, its custodians and about the object itself. Earlier this week on her Photo Detective blog. Put another way, by breaking up a collection of items.

Spirits, Spectres, and Humbugs. About a year after his grandfather died, Dan received a large package from his grandmother. It contained hundreds of photographs that Dan had never seen before. Among them were some of the ones displayed below. And if we ever had, cert.

Every Photo Has A Story. And several non-business hours of work on my office computer, I was able to convert those files to something viewable on all current computers. But for how long? One major advantage of digital archives is portability. Not only do I maintain off-site backups almost effortlessly thanks to systems like Flickr.

On The Way To Cherry Tree. I was flattered to be invited to become a regular columnist at Shades of the Departed. When the publisher, footnoteMaven, asked if I would do a regular column on cemeteries, I immediately set out to determine what I could name the column - - or name the work I wish to do with the column - - in order to provide direction for the articles to be researched and presented here.

Rites and Wrongs Of Passage. My desire to find more old family photos has become an obsession. My family has been no help in feeding my addiction. Have any photos of our great-grandparents? So what is a desperate ancestor-photo hunter to do? Like any addict, I sought out a fix and now I haunt unclaimed photo web sites inst.