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<p>[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 408938, member: 33"]Sounds good -- thanks!</p><p><br /></p><p>Right now I can't really do the Ancestry thing. Or I could sort of do it. I do use Ancestry but it's not my account. One of my sisters kindly lets me use her account. So I can't communicate with people there because it's attached to one of her email addresses. She rarely uses Ancestry, and I gather that the email account is one that she rarely uses. I mostly use Ancestry for searching.</p><p><br /></p><p>So anyway, I do belong to a few Facebook groups that are for the purpose of reuniting photos and other items with family members. I don't use them enough, but have been able to reunite one photo through there. Hadn't thought of using Dead Fred, although have seen the site before.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can see what you mean about approaching people directly about photos of their relatives. I've had mixed results with that myself.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I will keep uploading photo scans to Find A Grave. I've always hoped that relatives would find them. Not sure whether there is a way to tell whether any of them have been downloaded, or even viewed![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 408938, member: 33"]Sounds good -- thanks! Right now I can't really do the Ancestry thing. Or I could sort of do it. I do use Ancestry but it's not my account. One of my sisters kindly lets me use her account. So I can't communicate with people there because it's attached to one of her email addresses. She rarely uses Ancestry, and I gather that the email account is one that she rarely uses. I mostly use Ancestry for searching. So anyway, I do belong to a few Facebook groups that are for the purpose of reuniting photos and other items with family members. I don't use them enough, but have been able to reunite one photo through there. Hadn't thought of using Dead Fred, although have seen the site before. I can see what you mean about approaching people directly about photos of their relatives. I've had mixed results with that myself. And I will keep uploading photo scans to Find A Grave. I've always hoped that relatives would find them. Not sure whether there is a way to tell whether any of them have been downloaded, or even viewed![/QUOTE]
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