Do you collect anything as a hobby?

[DebJ]

28. Two main sources

Ancestry.com and www.findagrave.com (now owned by Ancestry), the latter being a free site.

Some pictures are posted as 'public' pictures on Ancestry and you can add those to your website.
On the other hand, some trees and/or their pictures are private (as mine is). In those cases,
you contact via Ancestry.com the people who have trees with the same relatives, and ask if they
will share information or pictures with you. I always share my pictures with whomever asks,
but I do so via email or find a grave because I don't grant access to my tree except for close
relatives, or verifiable relatives, or distant relatives I have learned and shared much with...
in those cases, I only block viewing of living people in my tree (cause birthdates, cities, mother's
maiden names etc are all on there).

That was how I got the other pictures of trapeze artist Benjamin Dunham and my great-great grandparents
(his parents), as well as other pics of great-great grandparents. I actually found a first cousin my mother
(who is still with us at 85) didn't even know she had...her Aunt had moved to the west coast in the 1940s
with three children; waited quite a few years and then had several more children. The families had lost
contact and Mom didn't know about the second set of children. We are now FB friends and continue
to share a lot through FB.

I have also found distant cousins on FB and simply emailed, through FB, pictures and info I have
on mutual relatives.