Yep!! Both my parents are gone and I have some photos - tintypes etc and who they are ????? ---------- >From: hhooper <hhooper@wa-net.com> >To: PABRADFO-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [PABRADFO] Poem >Date: Thu, Jun 1, 2000, 7:28 PM > > Listers, > thought this might be fitting since I am doing family photo's right now > and even sent Joyce some. > > "Notes on a Family Album" > > I sit before some photographs > of people I don't know. > Mom said, "They are your relatives," > But that was long ago. > > She used to get the album out > And put me on her knee: > Then pointing, with a story line > Tell family history. > > The captions used were all her own, > Each time developed new. > We never thought to write them down > Before her life was through. > > I see some family features now: > I have begun to care. > Since Mom is gone, I cannot ask, > "Whose picture is that there?" > > If you have photo's in a book > Without a caption, too. > Go get a pen and label them, > Or you may wonder, "Who?" > > by Mary F. Heisey > > I have found a cousin with an album of family photos which include about > 100 tintypes and we have no idea who these people are. So there is truth > in this poem. > Harold Hooper > >