Saving the family history
A while back, I started a project on a very cool site called Geni.com. Geni.com lets you document your family tree with a Facebook kind of twist. It takes geneology and makes it social. Gone are the days of endless research alone trying to piece together details of our family’s history and welcomed are the days of online collaboration by all the members of your tree to help document it together. The concept is amazing. I have a few aunts and uncles who have joined along with some of my cousins who are helping to add people to the tree and grow it.
This weekend, I finally got to do something I have been itching to do for a while. My family has a lot of old photos that would be awful to lose. Most of these photos are from the 1950′s or before and there are some that I’ve never really even seen. My granny has lots of them stored in photo albums that she guards. So, this past weekend, I took my computer and scanner (which I bought specially to be able to travel with) up and got high resolution copies of many of the photos. I’m now working my way through touching them up and posting them in Geni.com. The one down side is that Geni.com only stores low resolution copies, but it will allow all the folks on the tree to see them if they’d like. I hope to one day have a repository of the high resolution copies for family members to be able to download or make prints from. More to come.
