Old Genealogy Stuff

My mother was quite active in pursuing genealogy material about my dad's family, partly as a gift to him because he had lost both his parents to illness when he was 5-6 years old. She had traced his ancestors back to immigrants from England and Scotland in the late 1600s, and she had gathered several boxes of newspaper clippings, correspondence, and old black-and-white photos. Somehow I ended up with all of this after my parents died, and it's just been taking up space in our dwellings. I decided that I am not sentimental or interested enough to keep it, so I offered it to my sisters, my son, and my nephews and niece. If no one wanted it, I was going to just throw it in the recycling and garbage. Fortunately a couple of them have said they will come by and get the stuff, and they are talking about having some of it digitized. Anyway, here is a scanned image of my dad's parents reuniting in Iowa in 1919 when he returned from working on construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway in Manchuria.

Contact your local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints aka "Mormon" They are huge into genealogy and will get it recorded for posterity, available online for all to see/use.

in addition to the above, you could also reach out to your local historical society to see if they'd be interested in the material.

Two of my relatives have offered to digitize the material, so it will be available for all of us.

Two of my relatives have offered to digitize the material, so it will be available for all of us.

that's a good move, too.

I'm currently in the LONG process of digitizing all old photos that my family has.