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It's about time we had some old family photos on the web!

In the 1980s or so I began to appreciate an opportunity as well as an obligation that had fallen uniquely onto my generation.  Since photography was invented in the 1840s, and many families were having their portraits taken by the the 1880s, I realized that the people who could identify the faces in those early family photos were being laid to rest.  Gradually, our parents and grandparents were dying, and they were the children and grandchildren of the people in those earliest family pictures.  If we did not capture the information soon, we might all be left with boxes of meaningless antique pictures.  Among us, we the Woodbury clan (from Franklin County, Maine) and our related families must have hundreds of old photos of our common ancestors.  Before it's too late to identify who is in them, we may be able to cooperate in getting them shared on line.  Right now, this site is just the beginning... =David A. Woodbury=

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It works like this: First you get a Shutterfly account at their web site, www.shutterfly.com.  Upload pictures into albums, but these are for your own use.  The rest of the world can't see them there.  From there, you click on a couple of links and - Presto! - you have a web site like this.  If people know or guess the web address (what to put in place of the www) they can visit the site.  You bring some of the pictures from some of your albums over to this site, where you want everyone to see them - or you can make it private if you want to.  You invite some people to become members, where they can take greater advantage of the pictures you've added.  And, personally, I encourage anyone visiting this site to order prints or other products from Shutterfly, because I sure do appreciate what they've made available here!=DAW=

How We Can All Use This Site

UPLOADING: I'm going to upload old photos in reasonably high resolution.  If you become a "member" of this site - (really simple) - you can also contribute to the collection.  DOWNLOADING: Any member of the site, whether you've added photos or not, can download full-resolution images to use in your own way, or better yet, order prints, gifts, and even photo books from Shutterfly.  Order a coffee mug with Andrew Sweet's portrait on it, for instance.  Or a photo book of selected images of your ancestors!  That's the idea.  Now, to get started adding images...!  =David A. Woodbury=

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DamnYankee LLC
A section at DamnYankee.com (David Woodbury's various enterprises) includes an extensive family genealogy that is still in progress.

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1/27/2012 10:43:17 PM - 004079879419
This is good stuff. I just downloaded shutterfly.

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