Good question, Tia. One of the first questions I would ask of my relatives is if they've IDENTIFIED their PHOTOGRAPHS by writing the names, relationships, dates, locations (and sometimes stories) of each photo in their possession. (Using acid free inkpens or pencils, of course.) What good is a photo if you don't know who it portrays? Upon my request, one of the last projects my mother accomplished before leaving this earth was to write the names of the people on the back of each of her treasured photos. How we appreciated her efforts! And what a good lesson for the rest of the family: Now all photos are ID'd as soon as we get them back from the photo shop. My mother-in-law didn't get around to it, and now all we have is a huge box of pictures of strangers. Everyone who could've identifed the photo is long gone. Now isn't that too bad? Kay ----- Original Message ----- From: "glitz" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 10:00 AM Subject: [WHITE] genealogy based question > I am doing a survey here. I want to do an interview. If you had the > chance to ask only one question of a living person in your family---what > would it be? > > TIA Glitz > > > > ==== WHITE Mailing List ==== > WHITE LIST ADMINISTRATOR > <[email protected]>

Yes that happened with our grandparents. We made sure all pictures belonging to our parents were id'd and I like you never get/give a pic without id'ing info on the back. If they don't put it there I do to the best of my knowledge. We had to go one step further though in my husband's family. One brother was to get ~all~ the pic (even the ones we gave them) upon the death of my husband's parents. We wrote on the backs (actually an older sil started it "to be returned to susch and such upon death. Terrible to have to do something like that but they should have been returned to the families they came from. Glitz ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 2:44 PM Subject: Re: [White] genealogy based question > Good question, Tia. > One of the first questions I would ask of my relatives is if they've > IDENTIFIED their PHOTOGRAPHS by writing the names, relationships, dates, locations > (and sometimes stories) of each photo in their possession.