Family Archivists Prints

'They colorize old movies so I colorized your old photographs.'

'Mom was pretty...but Dad was a geek.'

"Meet the scribe"

Historical memory is on life support.

'It's really more of a family forest than a family tree.'

Several generations live together in Cuba

'You're right. Our old safety files have become a safety concern.'

'...then Johannes Gutenberg built the first bookcase'

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

Family DNA

Office worker pushing a pile of papers on trolley.

'From albums to 8-tracks to cassettes to CD's...What a long, loud trip it's been!'

"Could you tell me how to get to cedar grove, New Jersey? I want to see where my grandfather was born."

"Why mum, I didn't know that you had written a book."

'We were thinking of naming him after his daddy, but I don't really like the name, Old slap head.'

"These are my fish cymbalta, otezla, skyrizi, vraylar and stelara!"

'The big feet come from your side of the family.'

'That's a picture of my granddad with shoulder length hair and a beard. That's why mom calls these albums hair looms.'

"You're writing a memoir? You're seven years old. Do you honestly think you can capture the interest of readers with such a short—wait, is that my name?!"

'The suspense is killing us. Which one is our grandchild?'

(No caption. Signs on file cabinets drawers read, "Files Saved to Hard Drive," "Files Saved to Disk," "Files Saved to Traveldrive," "Trash.")

Changes at home

Catalogue of little books.

Estate Sale! All the stuff my kids said they don't want to inherit.

"I think I'll keep a diary..."

"It was a mom-and-pop, but we inherited it."

We have a nice selection of office artifacts, a typewriter, carbon paper, ashtrays, our CEO's last handwritten memo...

'Here comes the Papa-razzi again...'

"Meeting old relatives...is like peeking into our future."

'Well, isn't this nice? Three generations all sitting down together.'

"That's my dad back when he was, like, militarized."

"I had a great weekend... My Grandpa talked about the war again and my Dad about his most daring facebook comments!"

It's my biggest project - a database of all my sister's boyfriends.

Bob began seeing his mother, who gave him up for adoption, professionally, three times a week. It didn't help much.

"I often consult with a higher authority... my grandmother."