Why Email An Old Picture,When You Can Post And Email A Link?

From Nancy Day Flickr Account

If you haven't discovered Flickr, you probably haven't discovered chocolate. Flickr is actually better than chocolate. Below is a part of an article found on http://famillysearch.org/ about the benefits of photo sharing  from places such as Flickr. You might notice in the collage above, my Sister Nancy even posts documents in her account. This will be ideal in linking them to FamilyTree. In fact, I think I should get started doing just that. Oh, boy - the fun never ends.

Photosharing: Why email an old picture, when you can post and email a link?

From an article in Family Search.org  on June 8, 2012 By Claire Brisson-Banks

One of the many prized possessions for genealogists, in addition to record sources, is to find photographs of their ancestors. To add a face, features, clothing and time period to their knowledge of that ancestor brings them so much closer. This author had this personal experience over and over again as her my mother was the last of nine children and she never knew her mother’s mother, additionally, on her father’s side she never knew his parents and so their pictures have helped her to bridge that major gap in her life.

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While emails are a great resource, placing them online is a much better way to circulate them for one never knows when a relation is looking for just that one photograph. Also by placing them online, this author has discovered that younger generations often locate them and ask about their ancestors. This opens the door to creating an interest in another generation and provides an opportunity to build another relationship with a new cousin; both are a great value return for simply posting ancestral pictures online in one of the many programs available online to do so.

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