Young Genealogists

[ThrelfallYorky]

I'm sure we all have / had drawers full of unlabelled photographs of unknown relatives! I know my parents did, mostly my paternal side, but unfortunately most of them got cleared out before I got interested, and my mother's sister had all the maternal side, and again, got rid of them. A cousin of my father provided some, but wasn't certain on many of the people - so the moral is, record them (in pencil on the reverse) with as much detail as possible, before it's too late!
TY

[Tickettyboo]

I'm smiling at the references to genealogy being taught/touched upon in schools.

Back in around 2011-ish a friend was telling me his G Granddaughter's class was doing a project which touched on looking into your family history.
The class teacher told the children that it could take a long time but if their family researched the family tree, they 'may' be able to find out about previous generations -possibly even find out about their G G Grandparents. Most of the class were impressed with that, they were still in Primary school and viewed GG Grandparents as being 'ancient times'.

Friend's G Granddaughter apparently looked puzzled and said 'but if I want to know anything about when GG Granny was young, I'd just ring her! or ask next time we visit! ' 

Her G G Granny didn't die till about 4 years later, aged 105 (marbles all intact and functioning) :-)

Boo
 

[Siely]

I'm sure we all have / had drawers full of unlabelled photographs of unknown relatives! I know my parents did, mostly my paternal side, but unfortunately most of them got cleared out before I got interested, and my mother's sister had all the maternal side, and again, got rid of them. A cousin of my father provided some, but wasn't certain on many of the people - so the moral is, record them (in pencil on the reverse) with as much detail as possible, before it's too late!
TY

Great advice , I have had undocumented photos too , it's very frustrating .

[Rena]

My parents had a large photo album with notes under each photo,  and quite regularly I would ask my mother to get it out and she'd tell me who each person was. "That's my cousin Bob"; who during my research found was Robert Halliday S...,..g ".  Mother was one of three sisters who met every week for a cup of tea and a bun.  Their conversations often mentioned a specific surname "The B........s", which was a large clue that a widow with children had married into my family. 

One sunny day in 1961 my mother mentioned that two of my male cousins were researching their family trees and asked me if I was thinking of researching my family tree.  I obviously wasn't interested as I gave a negative answer and carried on living my quite busy life.   Years later when those male cousins left home my aunt excitedly told me that her son had discovered that earlier paternal generations had owned a castle and a village!!!   I took up family history after I retired when I learnt that my maternal grandmother's oldest brother had been killed in WWI and I hadn't known about him, although I'd seen his photograph on an older relative's wall.  I might have felt a tad proud when I passed around names and documentation of our maternal grandmother's European mainland paternal ancestry, which was only due to the advent of the computer and the World Wide Web, which wasn't available when my cousins were driving around England visiting many registration offices looking at their records.. .  None of my list of helpful free websites are now functioning.

[wilcoxon]

I'm sure we all have / had drawers full of unlabelled photographs of unknown relatives! I know my parents did, mostly my paternal side, but unfortunately most of them got cleared out before I got interested, and my mother's sister had all the maternal side, and again, got rid of them. A cousin of my father provided some, but wasn't certain on many of the people - so the moral is, record them (in pencil on the reverse) with as much detail as possible, before it's too late!
TY

Sadly many family photos of the younger generation are on digital cameras / phones now. 🙁

[cockney rebel]

None of my list of helpful free websites are now functioning.

ah, tell me about it!
I still have so many bookmarked and can't bring myself to delete-
Some defunct, some bought up.
Very little that functions on the internet after one's demise that doesn't mean still paying a bill.

Rebel

[Siely]

Wilcoxon, I used to teach and the influence of social media / music video / computer game culture is worrying and many schools are now reviewing their mobile phone policy.  I think the ability to concentrate has been affected, not good news for encouraging next generation of FH hobbyists.

[Ayashi]

We have a big pile of old photos and someone somewhere along the line has helpfully written things like "my mother" on the backs... I don't know who wrote it 

[garden genie]

My late mother in law did not start labelling photos until she was getting on in years. There are pictures of her grandson labelled as her son and other 'inaccuracies'