GETTING ORGANIZED!

I have been chipping away at getting photographs, newspaper clippings, and stories organized.

 It took me a while to get it figured out.  First, I made twenty folders on my desktop.   Then it was easy to transfer photos from the "pictures" on my computer to the appropriate folder.

 The next step was purchasing twenty sweater boxes in which to PUT all these photographs, clippings, and stories.

 What has NOT been easy is getting them all labeled correctly with the year-month-day (so that the computer keeps them organized chronologically) and then a few words identifying the subject.

 I have been using abbreviations  like "abt." for about and "poss." for possibly.  

 We cleaned out my husband's sister's house last year and I am just about done filing all of HER pictures which involved first scanning them, then filing on my desktop, and finally filing the hard copies in those sweater boxes.

 I am about to begin on our pictures which is a project that I anticipate finishing in approximately ten years!  

 Or...  I could invent a time machine to go back and smash all the available cameras and lecture my young self to NOT TAKE PICTURES, but to just enjoy my memories!  Do you think that I would listen to my older self?  

 And I've been asking myself if anyone from the future is going to appreciate all the work I am doing.  I know that I have always been interested in family history.  I just hope there will be someone down the line with a similar interest to mine who will pick up where I will be leaving off.  

 This whole thing goes hand in glove with my genealogy research on my family and my husband's family.  

 When you consider that everyone has 4,096 10-times-great-grandparents, it's staggering when you finally realize that fact!

 My husband says that no one will care.  I prefer to be optimistic!

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