Prior to my sister’s request I was talking to my webmasters about changing the format of my blog and website. In fact over the past few days I had been working with them on improvements, enhancements, and changes. I originally planned the website to be in … Read More →
Category Archives: Family Photos
The Goodwin Family Tree
The painting above was inspired by two photographs of my grandparents and by a painting by my Grandma Lizzie. It was painted by M Goodwin about 1969. M never titled it, but I titled it The Goodwin Family Tree. During the 1950s Lizzie took painting classes … Read More →
Family History Isn’t Always Pretty
Unlike genealogy family history isn’t always direct, linear, clean, or pretty. In genealogy you have a chart with names, dates, births, deaths, and marriages – the facts. As I mentioned in my last blog once we add the factor of pictures and place of births … Read More →
Looks Like a Brody
Family resemblence I heard from Birgit Wolz today. She took the time to look at what I wrote about her last week. She wrote “you look just like your grandmother”. I took no offense to that since she was referring to my Grandma Lizzie, not … Read More →
Family History, not genealogy
Often when I tell people I’m interested in family history they take it to mean genealogy. I’m not interested in that at all. I have three Mormon cousins, (my father’s brother Jerry’s wife Merilyn is Mormon) who have eighteen children between them, to take care … Read More →
Digitizing photos
I love working with digital photos. I think that a big part of this has to do with the fact that I’m extremely allergic to photographic chemistry. I think that it’s specifically the fixer (formaldehyde). When I wrote my master’s thesis in the early 1980′s–before … Read More →
Sorting through Amy’s photos
I spent a few hours today looking through boxes of my sister Amy’s photos. I boxed them up two years ago when my older sisters and I packed up her house after her death. I hadn’t looked at them since. What made me open the … Read More →
Getting Started
Capturing the Soul The idea for Capturing the Soul came after I began sorting through the over 10,000 photos my father took in his lifetime. He got his first camera when he was fifteen and his family lived in Phoenix. There are no photos of his family prior to that. He … Read More →
The Anniversary Party
As I sorted through the photos I found many that I had never seen before. There was one set in particular–taken at my grandparent’s 40th and my parent’s 10th anniversary party in June 1957 that really set me on my explorations. The photo above shows … Read More →