This is a powerful message, thanks for posting it. I have plenty of pictures from my late mother-in-law I would love to have identified. However, most of the older generations have died, and if I could only find someone who could help me. So, now I need to go through my 17 albums of pictures and make sure they are identified. Plus, get the storage box pictures at least identified. Thanks for the reminder. Jo Autrey http://www.members.tripod.com/~JoMAutrey ----- Original Message ----- From: Tommy Dunn <jsdunn1@airmail.net> To: <TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 9:42 PM Subject: Re: STRANGERS IN THE BOX > > > > Erath County friends: I don't normally send such as this in a > > newsletter but it is so appropo of all we are doing in our family > > research and I hoped all of you might like it. I also consider it a > > gentle reminder to write on the back of my pictures and don't forget to > > use a lignen free pen. > > Sincerely - Joyce > > > > > > STRANGERS IN THE BOX > > > > > > Come, look with me inside this drawer, > > > In this box I've often seen, > > > At the pictures, black and white, > > > Faces proud, still, serene. > > > I wish I knew the people, > > > These strangers in the box, > > > Their names and all their memories > > > Are lost among my socks. > > > I wonder what their lives were like, > > > How did they spend their days? > > > What about their special times? > > > I'll never know their ways. > > > If only someone had taken time > > > To tell who, what, where, or when, > > > These faces of my heritage > > > Would come to life again. > > > Could this become the fate > > > Of the pictures we take today? > > > The faces and the memories > > > Someday to be passed away? > > > Make time to save your stories, > > > Seize the opportunity when it knocks, > > > Or someday you and yours could be > > > The strangers in the box. > > > > > > >