It’s hard to wrap my mind around sometimes. I have more pictures of what I’ve eaten than most of my ancestors. Seriously. Maybe you’re not a foodie like I am, so you don’t hash tag foodporn pictures on Instagram. Or take pictures of artfully presented meals in restaurants. Or decadent meals you make to post on social media to show off what you were lucky enough to eat, so others are jealous.
If you’re not posting the food porn pictures like me, you probably have a glut of photos of something else. If you don’t believe me, scroll through your smart phone camera gallery, or social media feed. I’ll wait…
Share the gift of family this holiday season. Highlight your ancestors with this DIY ancestor card advent.
Celebrate your family with this DIY ancestor or cousin advent calendar. This calendar uses a creative, non-tree repurposed display.
Celebrate your ancestors this holiday season with a do it yourself ancestor advent calendar.
So what if your ancestors weren’t famous? What if they were poor? There are photographers like Dorthea Lange who spent time documenting the migrant worker families during the dust bowl era for the department of agriculture.
Pouring through a couple hundred pictures, I not only gained a better understanding of what life was like for my great-great grandparents, but I found a couple of pictures, that I am pretty sure contain them.
