I have acquired and accumulated various materials that portray my family over a long span of years. In the interest of making it available and findable, I organized it in a series of web albums within a “Family Archives” portfolio. It’s probably only of interest to a few family members who remember these people and events, but it might be valuable to future family descendants exploring their genealogy. Here are some entry points to explore.
Note: for privacy, these pages are password-protected. If you encounter a login prompt, the username is “family”, and the password is this domain name spelled backwards (“moc.noslo…”, you can finish it).
- Family Archives This is the parent portfolio
- Memorials-Tributes Memorials, obituaries and tributes to family members who have passed on.
- Home Movies 1930s-1960s (Summary Page) 16mm home movies converted to digital videos. Some of them are now in the archives of the Minnesota Historical Society. Here is a list of them, with background information, links and instructions for viewing. Home Movies 1930s-1960s (Album) provides a visual guide to the videos.
- Christmas Group Photos, Christmas Group Photos – The Book A collection of pictures from this family tradition.
- Scanned Old Family Photos Old family photographs dating back to before 1900 digitized by Tod Olson in the 1990s. Many of the subjects are identified and named. See also Image Metadata and Ancestor Discovery.
- Historical Holiday Cards Christmas cards from the 1950s to 1970s
- Other Albums As I continue my archiving activities, I may encounter things that I think make an interesting story. I will create an album for them and add it to the portfolio.
If you are interested in details, the albums offer an info button that will often provide an expanded caption. If you want your own personal copies of the images, there is a download button that should send you a copy. For full-resolution originals, a deeper dive will be needed to provide their sources (contact me for this).