Contacting relatives to see if they have family photographs or other ephemera can take time. Sometimes there is no response or a response similar to “no and I don’t know of anyone who does.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In my collection of family photographs and other items, I have a few pictures of first cousins of my great-grandparents and the first cousin’s family. I do not have a whole lot, but I do have a few. I was actually able to recently contact a descendant of one of these first cousins and ask them if they would like the photograph (after making digital images for myself). The correspondent was a great-grandchild of the mother and wife in the picture and I am a great-grandchild of the first cousin of the wife who had the picture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Which means, for those who are keeping track, that my correspondent and I have great-great-grandparents who are siblings. I know I have not contacted my own relatives that far down the line to see what I have, but it’s possible some of them may have something. Now that I think about it, because of the materials from my parents and grandparents that I have collected, I have quite a few pictures of first cousins of my parents or grandparents and the families of those first cousins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reach out. Even if that person does not have anything, they may remember later that you expressed an interest if something ever comes their way and they are looking for a place to “get rid of it” instead of throwing it away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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