Strangers in the Box

I found a poem as I was browsing the “Find a grave” web site. It tells of pictures we have and how among them are some faces that we don’t recognize. Are they relatives? Friends? Pivotal people in family history? We do not know, and possibly never will. Perhaps some of you have experienced this. The poem reminds us that there is still time to help future generations know who the people in the photos are. Click here for “Strangers in the Box” by Pamela A. Harazim.
Dwight is doing his best to make sure we identify as many of these pictures as possible and has posted them on the Flickr web site. As of today, the number of posts is 13,171. Click here to view them if you like.
Incidentally, the Flickr site was founded by Caterina Fake, a distant relative, and her husband. You can read about her in Wikipedia. We have never met, but Dwight has talked on the telephone with her father about ancestry and genealogy matters. Dwight began posting to Flickr with no knowledge of its founder.
My maternal grandfather never met a stranger. More than likely, in the course of a conversation, he would discover that he and this new friend were related somehow. So label those pictures, y’all. You never know what might result.