How many old pictures does your family have that no one knows who they are? Of the ones you do know, have you taken steps to pass that on to the next generation? I want to help you save names with faces for generations to come.
I also create family tree photo projects, scrapbook & mini scrapbook pages for you, and even holiday & occasion cards.
I have been doing our family genealogy for a couple decades now, and have become the family archivist. It is not unusual for me to receive old photos and even old negatives in the mail from distant relatives with a note explaining they were found in a drawer, or book, or box, and it was decided I might want them or that I should be the one who gets them. And, like every other family, no one knows who the people in the photos are, or even when the photo was taken. I decided to change that. It became my mission to save that knowledge and to pass it down to the next generation in my family. I was determined to identify everything possible.
It started with the old family photos, asking my elderly relatives if they knew the who, when, or where of the ones I was trying to identify. Over time, I visited most my elderly relatives with my scanner and collected pictures, clippings, documents, and stories from them all. I was able to get first hand confirmation of names, places, and dates for most of them. I was about 90% successful in getting them identified. Then what?? It always saddened me that old family pictures ended up in those drawers and boxes. Even the ones in big photo albums don’t get much attention.
Wanting to preserve and share the pictures, clippings, and stories with my family, I decided to use my digital scrapbooking program to make what I called Heritage Photos for my family. Mostly 4x6 prints of the photos on which I identified the person or persons in the photos, the date and anything special about it. I would print them out, place them in 4x6 albums and give them as gifts. Passing our family history on to the next generation in little photo albums. Friends started asking me to do it for them. Things took off and now I do it for others.
Different Heritage Photos I have done
What I do.
I clean up the photo. crop it as needed. I can add names, dates, any text you want. I can take your photos, clippings, family stories, photos of family heirlooms and turn them into Heritage Photos for you. I can even use your genealogy information. I can make any size photo or poster for you to print. Let me make them for you.
I also do Holiday Cards, Scrapbook pages, Simple Family Trees, Photo Book Pages, and am willing to work on other projects for you. You send me your digital photo, I do the work, and send the digital file back to you. The original photo never leaves your possession...
Contact me thru KOS Mail.
What I don’t do.
I don’t do restoration. I can clean it up (see diary photo at the top.), but I don’t use photoshop,
Some examples of my work:
Family Related Newspaper Clippings
Newspaper clippings (4x6)
Family marriages you want to document
A family marriage, left photo taken 1898, on right 1922... (4x6)
A Family Marriage , left photo taken 1910, right in 1930...(4x6)
A life Story
A life Story, my grandfather lived 1877-1970... (12x12 or 8x8)
Genealogy Family Lines
Genealogy Family Group (4x6 or 8x10)
Silhouettes
Silhouette (4c6 or 5x7 or 8x10)
Documenting the colorful family member’s history.
A family Black Sheep, photo was taken about 1915, and was his Pinkerton mug shot...(4x6)
Share the oldest photos with your family
my grandmother at 16 in her bathing suit with her brother in his. photo is 105 years old...(4x6)
Sharing genealogy & family history
A Genealogy Story of my great-great-grandmother (4x6)
Was able to identify the unknown cousin with the parrot, now that name is no longer lost to the family.
my father and his sister with a cousin and his parrot in 1950. (4x6)
I can do scrapbook pages for the family, or their history
A Scrapbook Page (12x12 or 8x8)
Favorite family pictures, 1 or several...
family photos of my baby brother (4x6)
An 1816 clipping & story of family history
1816 Family Clipping, it is 205 years old...(4x6)
I can do holiday cards
A Furry Holiday Card (4x6 or 5x7)
A Holiday Card (4x6 or 5x7)
A mini scrapbook page of pictures
a mini scrapbook page (4x5)
Documenting & sharing family heirlooms, and their stories
(4x6)
(4x6)
(4x6)
I can do family documents to share with family
1910 marriage certificate… this document is 111 years old... (4x6)
Antique family photos
I Was able to identify my family members in this picture by showing it to elderly relative I visited.
we saved the identities in this photo...this photo is 100 years old...(4x6)
Simple family trees
(8x10)
or more complex ones
my great-grandfather had 19 known children with 3 wives and 1 girlfriend
Family scrapbooks pages
we have a Lot of twins in our family
And individual pictures
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