Photos are fairly easy to share and pass on. There are many methods but here"s a few I have used:* Scan your original photographs, then print them on good quality photographic paper. Label them on the back (using a proper pen for writing on photos) Mail to family* Scan your original photographs, then create a collage (Picassa does a nice one) or Memory Book, with text describing each photo. Mail

Okay you have made a list of all your family treasures and heirlooms. You"ve taken photos of each one. You"ve added a description of each item. And you"ve started your own Show & Tell - showing each item to children, grandchildren or other family members and telling them the story behind it. Step 3 of my plan to make sure family treasures are cherished, preserved and passed on, is to do some

Step 2 of my plan to preserve and pass on cherished family heirlooms and documents involves starting with your children and grand-children at as young an age as possible. This part is fun. The idea is for you to brainwash your family! Entice them with stories of each treasured object - who it belonged to, where they lived, how you ended up with it and what you want to see happen to it. Keep

This is my entry for Smile for the Camera: Costume The word prompt for the 10th Edition of Smile For The Camera is Costume? No, not as in Halloween. Costume as in dress in general; especially the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period. Show us that picture that you found with your family collection or purchased that shows the costumes of the rich to the not so rich, from the

Going through my mother"s boxes from her apartment, and re-examing Doris" Genealogy Box has made me stop and think. Have I made sure that the genealogy and family treasures in my care are going to be passed on to others for safe-keeping? I am sure that many of us have such treasured items. Even if we have no family heirlooms we have our genealogy research and papers. I"ve learned that when a

This is a photo of my Grandmother"s brother Sydney Simpson. Sydney was born in Ramsgate Kent England in 1897. I knew Uncle Syd, as we called him, for he lived in Toronto and came to visit our family fairly often. But Until I saw this photo in Doris" Genealogy Box, I had no idea he had been in WW1. A search of the online CEF (Canadian Expeditionary Force) records of soldiers in the First World

As I continue my unpacking of my mother"s 11 boxes of documents, photos and miscellaneous items from her apartment, I find myself becoming easily distracted. Each item makes me pause and reflect. What did this mean to mother? When and where did she get it? Why did she keep it? Mother was the story-teller in the family and she often told me stories of her childhood and what she recalled of her

When I packed up my mother"s belongings after her death two weeks ago, I didn"t have time to sort or scrutinize items before packing them. Everything had to go quickly into boxes, to be sorted at my leisure when I returned home. Because mother wasn"t a very organized person, her belongings were jumbled together and that is how they were packed - as we found them. So I am finding the most

Library and Archives Canada now has the 1891 Canadian Census online Genealogists can access digitized images of original census returns which list the name, age, country or province of birth, nationality, religion, and occupation of Canada"s residents at the time of the 1891 Census. For more Canadian Census records see AllCensusRecords.com

Having found the photos of Ern and Cordelia Simpson sailing on board SS Canada from Liverpool to Canada in 1923 in my mother"s papers, I was distracted from unpacking my mother"s 11 boxes and now intrigued by what else might be in Doris" Genealogy Box! I continue looking through Doris" Genealogy Box. For those who have not been following this story, Doris was my mother"s cousin (my grandmother

This photo was taken in Ramsgate Kent England in April 1906. It is one my grandmother Fuller gave me many years ago, of her brother Frank at age 16. Grandma always told me that her little brother drowned in Ramsgate Harbour at the age of 18 and that was why she herself was terrified of the ocean and never swam. In fact when I was a little girl and went to stay with her one summer, she would

In my mother"s boxes of items from her apartment, I found 2 photographs both marked on the back in my grandmother"s writing. One was a photo of Grandma"s brother Ernest (Ern) Simpson with his daughter Doris. Ern"s photo was written on the back "April 21st 1923. Wait[ing for t]he Canada on the [dock?] at Liverpool" My mother had added the names "Doris & Ernest Simpson" in block printing The