she holds the rest of the geneology stuff

I'm not sure where the stuff my mother was working on has gone to. I assume it's gone to my older sister, but it's been so long since I've talked to her I'm afraid they'll think I'm trying to just "get stuff" if I bring it up now. It's so weird how family power gets tied up with possession of the family history documents. Several years ago I sent out a fairly extensive write up of all the information I'd found so far, and I never heard word one of whether it was appreciated or not. Well, no, my older sister did say once, "That stuff is so boring." Hello, I've spent the last thirteen years establishing our family ancestry back over 600 years! We've got colonial governors and actual pirates and all that, and you think it's boring?"

It's frustrating.

This may be too annoying/time intensive, Connie, but is there a way you can scan the unidentified, print them out, ans mail them to family members with a SASE asking for identification? Or upload all the pics to a Flickr account? Even if no one knows, you can put your mind at rest knowing that you've searched.

When my mom got boxes of photos from my (sadly) insane grandmother, most of which were damaged by the Chelsea fire, she separated everything out, had 4 copies made of everything, and she and her sisters sat around the kitchen table for several weekends making/labeling photo/scrapbooks. It was an intense experience for all of them, and they included pics which couldn't be identified as "unknown, circa 1945" and such.

Much easier if you have three sisters and a case of ale, I imagine.

Scanning them into a flickr account is an awesome idea. They don't take up the space. The whole family can access them, and they're not as easily lost.

Not having a scanner makes that tricky, but maybe I can borrow on.

Do you think someone in dh's family does?

Behold! As I pinch-hit for Lee....

Challenge #128 (cup of coffee and a piece of pie) is now closed.

Challenge #129 is desert island. (Remember -- this is non-fandom, so no LOST drabbles, please! Unless you can make more goddamn sense than J. J. Abrams is....)

Making more sense than J.J. Abrams isn't much of a challenge ....

Hey, connie, I've got a spare scanner. I'm not all that sure on how well it's working, but if I can get it up and running in the next month or two, it's yours if you want it.

Scanning the photos is a great idea. During my last visit to Hawaii, we looked through lots of old family photos, and they were really valuable to me. I'd hate for you to lose something that may matter to you down the road if you run into a relative with the info.

One slice of real New York cheesecake -plain. No strawberries, no chocolate, no syrups. Cream cheese as dense as the plate it rests on. Sugar adds sweetness, but doesn't drown out the savory flavor. Real cheesecake - yellow, not white. Maybe even a hint of blue.

Crust is flour, sugar, egg, butter, vanilla - lemon peel if you must. Again, not too sweet. Or graham cracker will do.

At the first forkful, Continents, seas , oceans separate me from everyone else. The world goes away as taste buds explode in a giant foodgasm. All alone - on a desert island.

Hee, TB, that's cute. Nice play on words.