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How unlabeled family photos become anonymous ghosts

My great-aunt left me boxes of old photos but most of them aren't labeled and now all those faces will be forgotten forever because everyone who knew them is dead.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Inheriting undocumented visual family history creates responsibility for faces and stories that may be irretrievably lost.

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“Where Are You with Genealogy & Family History?”

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