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In reply to the discussion: Are there usually state regulations regarding the scattering of your cremated remains? [View all]csziggy
(34,189 posts)My sister found a brown paper bag full of old photos and negatives. I've scanned them all and they range from about 1909 through the death of my grandfather in 1956. He took most of the pictures, some at the Michigan School of Mining, now know as Michigan Tech, some in the New Orleans area where he worked as a civil engineer (and shows the building of levees and pumping stations), some in France at the end of World War I where he served in the precursor to the Army Corp of Engineers.
Other were taken in Florida where grandfather became a phosphate mining engineer in 1925 - those were mostly taken in a town that no longer exists since the company sold the houses and mined the town site for the phosphate under it in the early 1950s.
It's a lot of history as well as family lore.
I still have tons of family photos to scan - my husband and I have inherited both families photo collections. We have about 150 years of photos to preserve and share. I'm trying to get them online as I work my way through them, but it takes a lot of work.