This tip ran nearly five years ago on the day of my Mom’s funeral. It’s still pretty good advice–or a reminder if you’ve been at this for a while.
We all have relatives of whom we neglected to ask questions or otherwise probe for family genealogical information.
If you have relatives who have pictures you’ve not identified, try and identify them now.If you have relatives who have pictures or other ephemera you’ve not digitized, do that now. If you have relatives to whom you’ve not talked about the past, do that now. If you have relatives who would consent to DNA testing, do that now.
If you have stories of your own that you have not written down, do that now.
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I agree about photos being named. Five cousins and I are trying to identify a relative and going crazy.None of the photos are named
I found a box with random pictures of my grandmother’s family. Bemoaned the fact that we would never know how they were.then opened an album and my grandfather had indexed every picture with the date place and who they were!! Found out he had my grand mother’s cousin who was at my grandmother’s funeral tell him who was in. Each picture. Thanks grandpa!
Wow! It’s great when things like that happen.