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Recording Family Stories Part 2: Sorting Photos and Using Twile to Share Family History Photos and Stories

The Felting Sisters In an earlier blog, I talked about how my sisters and I, "The Felting Sisters", using the opportunity of an annual visit to talk about memories of our childhood. While the main focus of our time together was to enjoy some time experimenting with felt art, we took some time to talk about our memories from our childhood.  This year, we also decided to sort through some of the old childhood photos that our dad kept in a Rubbermaid bin.  We lived in many different places during our childhood so we decided to sort the photos by location.  We spent time trying to determine dates and location of each photo but eventually we were able to assign all of the photos to the correct zip-lock bag. Childhood photos sorted into location We ended up with about 13 packages starting with photos from Belize (1946-1954), to our first move to San Fernando, Trinidad (1954-1956).  Next we moved to Georgetown, Guyana (1956-1964), then back to San Fe...