Continuation

meeting new distant relatives has sparked a search mode in me I guess, and I have taken the online family tree from a little over 100 people to nearly 600 now. I decided to go forward and add in my sibs spouses and kids and the next gen after that. I have added on my sister-in-law's side an immense amount and I know there is further to go. That whole line has done a great job of upkeep and research. Of course it helps when your family pretty much stayed put in the same area of the country for many generations. Several of my sides seem to have mor than a little wanderlust. I guess it is genetic.

Today I came across another whole huge batch of photos to scan into the computer. I am happy to say that siblings are now inheriting the scanned stuff, getting still more things out of my hands, so one bad accident wouldn't destroy it all. I am also pulling pictures out of frames, and albums, the paper of which is all acidic and not good for the also acidic papered photos. Once I have all the frames tossed out (no recycleable sadly) my library will be a lot less cluttered!

I do have one small problem facing me, and I am torn. I have a lot of letters that mom kept over the years, and I don't know whether to scan them in, and captur some of her personality, or to destroy them, as she had once said she herself would do.
I did think of one thing: these are not letters she wrote, but received (with a few exceptions) and they are not her voice but smeone else. In the case of my grands, I can see keeping them. I don't think I can justify keeping those written by people I didn't know, or barely knew. I would just like to somehow capture the personality of Jeanne M Dupre Douglas, so it doesn't just become facts and figures, like too many of my family. That's one of the reasons I admire Cndy's line: they have stories about people long dead. They haven't forgotten the idea of roots. IT being that I have never felt like I had any real roots anywhere, I am bit envious.

Ah well. Other chores call. I will scan and contemplate another day.