My daughter got married last week. At the wedding rehearsal dinner, her inlaws presented a video of she and her fiance through the years. In preparation for that presentation, I had to gather 21 years worth of pictures and upload them to a shared Google Drive. That was...

This will be my last family history post for a while. A couple of the items in this picture were already discussed in previous posts. The oil lamp was discussed in my World War II Era Keepsakes post. The wick trimmer was mentioned in my Antique Kitchen Items post. The...

These pictures are of my mother's maternal grandparents or my great grandparents. Anna Reeling was born in 1889 and Barend Johan van Bruggen was born in 1886. I don't know the story behind how they met but they were married in Holland in 1911. I am told that the pictu...

My mom was born on March 10, 1943 in Holland. These pictures show her as an infant with her parents. My mom is the firstborn in her family and she must have been a bright spot in an otherwise dreary and frightening time in history. At this time, Holland was occupied by...

This is a picture of my husband's father and his twin sister, taken sometime in the 1950's. It is the only copy that I know of and my husband has four siblings and a cousin that would also like a copy of the picture. SHOTBOX makes it easy to transform this print into a...

In the past, when I needed a copy of old pictures ,scanning was the way to go. Inevitably, the bed of the scanner would be dirty or it would have lint on it and that would be scanned along with my photos. The result would be a picture covered with spots and floating am...