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| Balewan house Summer 2016/17 |
Bal meaning home and Ewan being a family name so home of the Ewan's not unlike Mac meaning son of. So MacEwan is son of Ewan. Our first visitors were Uncle Nev and Aunty Jeannette who are always good for a story, either telling one or creating one. Then my Uncle Bill (86years old) visited and talked about family history on Geni.com and my sister discussed family history with him. I hadn't logged in to Geni for 10 years and noticed that it had not been updated and most family didn't have a picture. After all this family talk i thought it would be good to at least have an image for the person. Mum had mentioned tidying up the photo albums so of I went getting images for the 80 or so family members. Soon I had uploaded 120 images and added 40 members to our tree. It was all bringing back childhood memories of aunty this and uncle that but they weren't on the tree so even more people were added. It came clear after a while that the images meant very little without a story, obviously the family photos on the tree had their own story and the photos of weddings and funerals also had their own story but there were the other photos that had no meaning without a story. I had sporting, location, holiday and object related stories. My challenge is to record all this information I have gathered. As you can tell I am not a writer so it will not be a book to record these stories, but I would like the stories to be told by the people in the photos
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