Family History Activity

Over the weekend, my niece told me that she as having a hard time scanning the old family photos she had borrowed from Grandmama.  She has two little girls now and I remember well the constant needs little people have when you are the care giver.  She had brought them hoping I could help her with this project of scanning all the old photos she had borrowed.  She had brought four boxes with her and --secretly, as Grandmama wasn't thrilled with loaning out these old family photos in the first place--I brought them home and started scanning.

Lucky for me Monday was a holiday from school and my primary job was to get everyone's laundry done because it gave me the while day, pretty much, to work on this.  I did it.  These  are the kind of photos I was scanning:

They are pretty great, aren't they?  So many are from Johannesburg or Cape Town and they show the "black" side of the family.  I think it is fascinating.  I think the photos are lovely as just old pictures too, but these people are somehow connected to us--at least to my husband and kids.  Now the real work starts as we try to piece together the lines that take us there on paper to what the photos already show us.