Good point Alanna Many of our ancestor photos were lost when my mom had scarlet fever... Her family had just moved and they were in boxes in her room. At the time it was believed that the germs were spread on paper among other ways so all the paper in her room was burned. Our Irish branches along with the English up in smoke! Faye Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: Alanna L Scanlon <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:52:07 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IRL-CLARE] Photos of Ancestors Wanted! I may be speaking for others other than myself when I describe my situation.   First is that there are great gaps between each of my generations, huge is another description.   Second is that my people were very poor.  Third is that they lived way out in the county as it was when they were alive.  Fourth is that they did not believe in such nonsense or expense.   I found a letter from Ireland telling that my father had written to his brother asking about the picture on the wall of a "John."  I think that my father had said that this "John" was a handsome man.  From what this letter said was that he did not know about this picture.  So what happened to it and why was a picture taken of him with the cost, etc.   This may be the John where the words "beloved brother" written on his tombstone by his brother and sister in 1899.  Was the picture given away or was it thrown away as not important, as has happened in my family.  Valuable information or items.   Just had to respond to what to me is a sad subject -- lack of information in my family. Alanna --- On Sun, 7/31/11, Christina Hunt <[email protected]> wrote:   I put out a call on a few Irish lists for Ancestor photos to put in the IGP Archives this month. We got a few. If you have one or more to share (assuming you know the county) you can use our Photo uploader to add them. We are about preserving our ancestors faces as well as their names. http://www.genrecords.org/irfiles/photos.html Example: http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/longford/photos.htm All the best...Christina   ====================================== Remember to stay on Topic. If you have a problem with anything please contact the list admin [email protected] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message