Treasured family photos and wednesday nostalgia

I’m not sure if scanning old family photos is the best way to preserve them for future generations. I’ve been reading a lot about digital archiving recently and I wonder what’s going to happen to all the photos in my Flickr account when I die. Should my children have access? What if some nuclear disaster or alien attack completely wipes out all the  binary data, pixels and bitmaps? What’s going to happen when compact discs follow cassette tapes into extinction?

These are the things that keep my head spinning on its axis and keep me awake at night.

But regarding the photo depicting my mother, grandmother, aunts and uncles in Germany just before WWII, my own mother could not remember the date when asked. I figured it to be around 1941 or 1942. It’s before my Onkel Klaus was born in 1945 and the youngest before him was Tante Rita who was born in 1938.
My own mother is the tall one in the back row born in 1931.

Pictured from left to right are Tante Klara, Tante Trude (my mother’s twin sister), Tante Rita (the little one in front), Oma Spöth, Tante Dora, my mother, Margarete and Onkel Hardi who died last year.

Nostalgic family photographs like this one may or may not become a regular feature on this blog, replacing the Wednesday Doodle for now. My life has rapidly expanded recently and I just got hired by REI in Berkeley. If you’re in the vicinity, stop in and say hello.