The germ for this website was the 70+ photo albums I hauled home from Chattanooga when we cleaned out Dad’s house. It was clearly not practical to keep them but I didn’t want to lose the content. I determined that I could digitize them and build a website. Lucky for me, the Knox County Public Library recently installed two public workstations with excellent flatbed scanners.
The photo albums stacked on the floor of my office, back when the pile was still tidy.
As I write this I have uploaded 7 albums worth of photos to the site and built galleries for each of them. I try to create a title and caption for each picture. I am still looking to find my voice for the site but I think I will write the captions mostly in the first person. I try to name as many people and places as I can. If someone is identified only by first name you can assume that their last name is Andreae. Non-family will get a first and last name, at least on first reference.
I haven’t set up an email address for the site yet so until then you can reach me at pvandreae@gmail.com. I plan to make blog posts as new albums or features are added. Once the photos are done I would like to add short bios for the primary people as well as interesting facts about some of the places in the pictures. After that, I hope to add geneaological information.
Cheers.
