Comments on: Family Matters and Personal Legacy

By: Barbara Saint Jacques

Barbara Saint Jacques — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:49:28 +0000

Thank you for sharing these wonderful family photos and your search for your ancestors. How proud you must be.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:14:55 +0000

beautiful photos!

By: Art Visions

Art Visions — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:03:38 +0000

I love this post! I was just talking to some friends recently about learning more about my family history. I had shared that on a trip to NYC a few years ago, I did a census search at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture to see if I could trace my grandparents. I did find information about my grandparents on my Dad’s side but not my mother’s. Recently, I was in the suburban Philadelphia area where my Dad grew up and became interested in learning more about that side and how they came to live in the “Main Line” area(which unfortunately information is sketchy at best). Thanks for sharing your wonderful photos and reminding me how important it is to get more information.

By: monica moran

monica moran — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:17:48 +0000

Ms. Lee,
i was recently directed to your site by my life coach, Pete Lee, since i am an artist and all about creativity in its many forms and i have been enjoying your recent posts on ‘wreck this journal’ but i truly enjoyed your ‘digital’ collage book as this is my favorite media to work in…

family history is so important but i have found that our elders (or parents) upon coming to this country did not realize how important their stories were and still are. i do hope you will be able to find a way to uncover some more family history and i hope that you might create another collage book of the recent photos that have been uncovered and shared here – they are fantastic!

i look foward to more of your stories and art and i also hope to purchase your ‘unfolding vision’ kit very soon!!

thank you for sharing your amazing work and discoveries =-)
monica moran

By: leah

leah — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:36:50 +0000

Wow, what an amazing group of pictures you have! So fascinating. Thanks for sharing a bit of your history, Jenn!

By: Carla White

Carla White — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:50:11 +0000

Amazing! What a great post. It’s inspired me to look into my family some more. I always thought my dad’s side was German but it turns out their Swiss. No wonder I love that country so much.

By: Ananda Leeke

Ananda Leeke — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:58:27 +0000

Hi Jenn. I loved this post. What a rich family history! Yummy!

By: Gregg

Gregg — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:54:27 +0000

Thank you for doing this for all of us to see and experience!

By: Lu

Lu — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:23:00 +0000

I loved this post. I have always found such joy looking at old pictures of my family and asking them about the people in the pictures. It makes me want to do a better job of documenting every day life for my own children. The curse of digital photography is we don’t print things out anymore. I honestly am thinking about dusting off my film camera and shooting just for the paper images. There is nothing like it.

You have a wonderful legacy here and I so appreciate you for sharing this post.

By: Blisschick

Blisschick — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:11:39 +0000

Jenn, These photos are fantastic and a true treasure.

Our history is so important. I’m not into the whole family tree thing (details, details, details) BUT I am so into the STORIES. They are so important and can teach us much about ourselves.

A novel never interests me if it doesn’t have back story so why would our lives be interesting without this depth?