[Daffynition]

Found this old photo, at an estate sale. I was taken with the subject. I *adopted* her as an ancient relative. Photo labeled *Grand Mother Jennings*. To me, she looks like an apple doll.

It breaks my heart to see old photos at estate liquidations.

Often in a family, someone will come along in succeeding generations, gets hooked on genealogy, and all this history is lost.:)

[dfwgator]

At least I would hope they’d digitize the pictures before throwing them out.

[discostu]

By that point the history is usually already lost. Unless somebody made useful notes on the back once everybody involved in a photo is gone it’s no longer history, just some picture of people nobody knows doing something nobody remembers.

It’s funny because right before digital took over there was a big movement for people to write all that stuff on the back of the photo, the whos and wheres and whens. Then digital took over, and nobody knows you can tag all the image files and record all that, and probably nobody is going to look on your harddrive when you die anyway. We kind of went backwards on that one.

[dfwgator]

It breaks my heart to see old photos at estate liquidations. Often in a family, someone will come along in succeeding generations, gets hooked on genealogy, and all this history is lost.:)

One of the scenes in "Schindler's List" that always gets to me is when they show them discarding all the family photos that the victims left behind.

[Chickensoup]

CHILDREN this is what happens when you don’t take care of your teeth!