Hi Alleycat!

I'm the youngest of three siblings (even though I'm a grandmother) and I was the one who ended up with the photos. I took pictures that I had of grandparents and great-grandparents to a reputable photo studio and had copies made. I, then, gave those copies to my nieces and nephews who now know what their multiple great-grandparents look like. Plus, there are extra copies in case something happens to the photos that I have.

I'm fairly new on Family Tree Circles and I love the tips that I'm getting on it. Hope I can pass a few tips along periodically to help someone else.

Fay @ grnstan

Good on ya, Fay. Someone's got to be the family historian I reckon. And photos are so precious of the ones that have gone before.

Very glad that you love the tips from familytreecircle members. Hope you've read journals/seen the website links for Texas.

Cheers, Al downunder.

What a boon it is to have scanners and cd burners also. I have done this with lots of mine and posted them off.
Vickie Oz

I have been scrapbooking family history photos & information and decided to scan the photos on to a disc to give my older brothers & other family members for Christmas as a treat. I know they will love it.

I also was able to obtain scores of very old family photos (copies) from my cousin that were in my Grandfather's album. Unfortunately, none have names on them. Very few have a photographers mark. Even so, I have scrapbooked them with love and treasure each and every one. I first, scanned them onto my computer and have them posted in several sites for identifying purposes.

Dear AllyCat,

You're not the only one with skeletons in their family. The more research I do, I find the more things that I never knew. It is quite interesting. However, some of the people in my family should just "simply duck." Skeletons are just flying out of peoples behinds. Good luck.

I too am really enjoying it. I have distant family members that rode with the Quatrill's Raiders on one side and served proudly in the Union army on the other. I have a more closely related member I found in the hospital for the insane in 1880 (eventually released and living with her family for quite a few more years) while another family member lived with a religous cult called "The Kingdom" at the start of the 20th century.

It is all fascinating and each time I look at their name, or research a bit or their life, I feel connected and that I am helping them live on through their legacy.

Wow. Terrific stuff Darren7160.

And I'm still laughing over the ...skeletons are just flying out of people's behinds...' by Osu_Bullet. :)

I had a person in my family that received the Navy Cross and had a Detroyer named after him in WWII...he was @Pearl Harbor...idk if he is directly related to me as of yet cause ive just started identifying my father's side of family!! Bunyon Randolph Cooner was his name...born about same time as my grandfather also in Navy during the war...yet he died last year sorrowfully and i never got to ask he or my grandmother about our family history...yet i am looking for everything possible!! i had a Yoho related distantly who was shot to death over work fight w/co-worker in 20's i believe lol!! he wanted 1st shift back then and dude wouldnt give so my 'relative' shot him; missed and that man shot my 'relative' dead ..lol!! self-defense of course!! i can't wait to find more interesting things!!!!!

While doing some research on my mother's side I came across a distant cousin when I was reading postings in a Genforum, Genealogy.com who lives in England.The greatest thing about that is she put me in contact with a first cousin. Our mothers are sisters which had'nt seen each other for over 30 years. They have since been in contact and had a very happy tearful reunion.

Hi Allycat, Im another who has found a few skeletons ...
some good and some bad ... and we cant change our history can we.
I was recently contacted by a second cousin who doesnt have the internet but while at work she decided to google her surname and county of origin. Theres numerous posts I had placed on almost every Irish & English genealogy site possible, after reading several posts she emailed me & now I have a partner in crime(as to speak). We have joined forces and hope to get some good results.
I wanted to ask you - as my cousin doesnt use the internet apart from at work (tut tut lol!)how & if possible can I send her my tree?
I have trees on both Ancesrty & Genesreunited. My cousin is dying to see this tree but I dont know how to send it ??? Any suggestions please.
Thanks Patzy C

Dear Patsy, Hi. Welcome. As you have already done so much work on your family tree, and have trees at both Ancestry.com - Genealogy, Family Trees and Family History Records Online and GenesReunited on your hard drive you would already have a file with a *.ged extension which is called a GEDCOM file. See What is a GEDCOM and how do I use it?.

I think you could send this GEDCOM file to your cousin at her work email address. There is the capacity with the click of a button to 'hide details of living people' in case you are worried about privacy and who else may read this file.

Tell your cousin that she could access the internet at her local library and/or possibly even the local LDS family history group depending on the location.

TribalPages A free genealogy site which can host your tree online. You can upload your GEDCOM file.

Good luck,
Alison
EDITOR.

Thank you Alison. I am now the proud owner of a tree on tribalpages. I found this site very easy to work with.
Cheers Pat.
P.S. Happy St Patricks to everyone.

Hey Greetings! I am right there with you finding everything from war heroes to a mass murderer in my tree. One of my dear friends turned me into a "family historian"... I suppose there could be a lot of other things I could do with my so called "spare" time, but THIS is so much FUN! It is nerve racking and exciting all at once. Together we have traced my family back MANY MANY generations, and it ends up I come from some pretty fine stock. (They seemed to have left their mark ALL OVER the place! Ha ha. I JUST sent the Family History off to my mother for Mother's day, and she is excited to see it. She had NO IDEA what her Grandmother's Last name was, "she was '"Grandmother to me, we were never told our grandparents' names!" and the contributions to America her family was tied into, from the Revolutionary War to her 22 year old Grandson in Iraq as I write this.
We are now helping friends research their own families, and it is turnign out to be quite entertaining...
Good luck to all of you and I hope you are having as much fun as we are!