Our family photo gallery

The family photo collection that I've been working on for several years is now published, here on L2D2. You can get to it from the family photos link up on the very top menu. There are over 360 photos there, spanning over a century of our family history. The bulk of the photos are from the first half of the 1900s. They are mainly from Alice Aasen's and Hannah Dunning's collections.

I am hoping that our extended family can help flesh out what we know about some of these images, and capture this information before it's lost completely. Some photos may make you wonder why they are there; in some cases I included photos mainly because Alice or Hannah had held onto them for whatever reason. I've done restoration to varying degrees on virtually every photo, so that in many cases you can discern a good deal more in these digital versions than in the original prints, due to fading and so on.

Anyone can view the cropped thumbnail versions of all the photos, so that you can get an idea, at least, of what's here. But to see the actual photos and the full captions, and to fully use the searching and sorting functions I've built in, you 'll need to create an account here, and I'll need to verify that you're a family member or similarly trusted person. Once I've given your account the required clearance you'll be able to access everything. To discuss this policy, which can certainly change if a different consensus emerges, check out this forum topic.

I'd like to build out a whole family tree structure and documentation. One objective of that is so that the photos can be placed in better context. But I decided that the photo gallery was good enough in its present state to share with you. Please don't hesitate to give any feedback you may have!