This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: austin, swift, paine Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AgB.2ACE/271 Message Board Post: Would you like your great-great-grandchildren to be able to see pictures of their great-great-great-grandparents? If so, please continue. I am a direct descendant of both the Charles Austin and Romulus Swift lines. My lineage is below. Charles Austin – Phoebe Ellen Woodward Frances Tate Swift / Thomas Paine-Sally Cobb Ephraim Henry Austin – Lucy Ann Beauchamp Romulus S Swift – Sara Salina Paine John James Austin – Mary Lucy Swift Verna Ellen Austin – James C Partin George E Partin – Jimmie A Card Mary Elizabeth Partin I am combining my love of photography and genealogy research to create a database of family photographs. Each one is numbered, and identified. Then, each person is indexed. There are currently over 500 photographs but feel I’ve just touched the surface. These photographs include Mary Lucy Swift from about 30 years old to near death Romulus Swift and Sara Paine John James Austin from about 30 years old until near death Charles Austin 8 of Mary Lucy Swift with her children Children of Ephraim Austin taken in 1925 Photographs from Austin reunions in 1939, 1947, and 1949 and later I would appreciate your assistance in adding more. Any photograph of any family member is welcome. Please identify the people in each one. You can scan them onto a CD. I can scan any photograph up to 8” x 10” and will be glad to return the originals. You can e-mail them to me. Even if they are not in good shape, I have software to assist in restoring them. If you’d like to contribute, please send me your family photographs, current and as old as available. I would also like to link the photographs in a family tree, please send your direct line on a GenCom file. I will be making available CD copies of the database. A contribution of the cost will be requested. If any additional funds are donated, they will be donated to an academic scholarship at Adelphi University honoring Sara Selina Swift Paine. The dean of the honors program is one of her great-grand-great grandsons. I shudder to think of the family heirlooms and photographs lost with Katrina. I do not want this happen to us. Mary Elizabeth Partin E-mail – Austin-Swift@midsouth.rr.com PS. If you are a descendant of a son of John and Mary Austin, I need your assistance in identifying pictures taken at the OK and TX Austin Reunions in the late 1940’s. I’ll e-mail them.