What Do We Do with Great Aunt Barbara?

I don’t want my heirs to have to deal with this question

Barbara Radisavljevic
A Pilgrim Life
Published in
4 min readJan 3, 2022

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Who is this? From family photo collection, unknown photographer deceased, rights belong to author

I’m currently sorting through a lot of possessions passed down from family members who lived before us. Many are photos of people I’ve never met whose names I don’t even know. Some are in elaborate frames. What do I do with them? We think the lead photo could be my husband’s father, but even my husband…

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Barbara Radisavljevic
A Pilgrim Life

Christian, bereaved adoptive mom, blogger, amateur nature photographer, voracious reader. Married 57 years. Central Coast of California. https://barbrad.com