A photo album with old photos

I'd like to shape my little project. One day I thought that I don't really know much about my ancestors and I was upset that almost everyone had passed away from the mother's line including my mother, so I decided that there is was no time to wait and I should learn everything about the father's line until whilst there are people to ask. It's This is how my project started.

Firstly, I visited my aunts and asked everything that they know about our family. To be more precise, while I was scanning old photos I wrote down the names of people, places where a photo was taken and other details. I spent a day there and scanned almost 300 photos.

To understand the situation better I must say that I'm the youngest of my family. My aunts are 74, 72 and 68 years old. They could be my grandmothers. The oldest cousin is 50 years old. Because of that, they were surprised that I can take an electronic copy of a photo, it's like a miracle for them. When they were young they could only have several photos and attach them to a paper album. Although, people have electronic cameras now and can take millions of photos.

The second step was drawing a scheme of our family. I called my aunts again and asked for missed missing details. Then I made a plan of a photo album. There should have been my grandparents, their 4 children with descendants. Moreover, our big family includes relatives of the grandmother, because she had 8 brothers and sisters. And one of them has 7 children as well.

Having sorted photos for groups according to the plan, I started to make an album. It took about 3 weeks to do so, because each page should have been unique. I didn't use patterns, I did each page design with thoughtfulness.

I tried to use old newspapers, certificates and official documents to memorize them better. I scanned and used all hand-written inscriptions.

This project really helped me to understand my family better, to learn a lot and to feel the spiritual power from of my relatives. I didn't know them well or I didn't know most of them at all, but now I have met them.

I'm going to gift give this album to aunts, and I hope they will be happy to show it to their friends and other family members.