Yes, definitely label the people's names on the pictures and scan them.

I have a box of old tin types from my mother's side of the family, some of which may be from as early as the 1860s, showing many of my ancestors and relatives over the courses of their lives and sadly very few of the pictures are labeled. I need to scan and share them with other family members. The box also contains a very cool, old picture of 2 coyotes chained to a pole. There's also a letter from President Hoover apologizing for having to miss the family reunion, because of his recent election.

Someday your kids may want to know their family history and those pictures are a part of it.

Keith

Hard to believe that '91 is considered "old fashioned"!

Thanks wolfie.

Wish I was there to learn and here those stories. Not to mention the food. Its too bad the old family traditions are slipping away as people get to far removed from the land and providing for themselves.

Thanks, those pictures are priceless.

Thanks Wolfdog!

Haven't raised any in a decade or so, but wanted my kids to experience it like I did.
Brought a smoked ham to the Tman feed at Nats in Lima, Ohio, maybe 2008?
Guy from KY was running the feed, can't remember his name.

Thanks for all the kind words eveyone, sorry I have responded to everyone yet but ripping and running today lol

Good job Wolfie.

I have a few decades on you and this sure brought back some memories for me. Neighbors helped neighbors at hog killin time. Our kitchen table became the meat processing table to work up the fat to make lard and the work up the trimmings to make sausage. Even as a little feller, I used a butcher knife to cut up the leaf fat and my Daddy would skin the hard fat and pile it up for me to cut in small chunks for the rendering pot.

Fresh brains and eggs for breakfast and fresh tenderloin biscuits. Hard to beat some of the old ways!

The sights and sounds of the hog killin were a unique experience and I wish I had some photos of my family on hog killin day but I do not have a one.

Always remember going into the two story smoke house on the homestead farm and seeing layers and layers of pork hanging from the rails in the wall going up some 20 feet.Multi families did it here as well, usually timed when the wet season delayed the harvest of the grain crops so everyone was available.
Fat ducks were also hung to cure in the wood smoke. Then the run of the mill scotch came out when they were cut up after 3 days of smoking.
Being only 6 years old funny how you remember some things; only came back after I paid for a wack of geese to be cured and smoked that the taste came back. The Bell's scotch was great with a slice

Wolfie those trucks look in mint condition
Are you going to do a weekly review like Gulo does ? That would be great

My Dad told me that the only thing on a hog my Grandpa didn't eat was the squeal. Everyone should experience a good o'l hog or chicken killing at least once in their life.

I can smell them pictures. Lol.

Chickens, hogs, and 6 steers every year. Family and friends, big meal. Good Times.

Gulo does a weekly review? Haven't seen that

I'd honestly have to figure out who I could take it to that would actually remember lol.alot of the folks who knew eveyone are long gone...mabye my uncle ?
And thank you

Really cool Wolfie. Thanks for sharing.

great pictures , used to be so many things were a family and friends gathering

we didn't do any family butchering , we picked cabage one year when someone talked my grandpa into planting a field of cabbage , happened to be a labor issue that year and the whole family got to gther to harvest.

several roofing parties , was at my last roofing party in 2011 when we did my brothers house.

Yen we did two hogs a fall. Cracklings, scrapple, head cheese, blood sausage, it was all good. The morning after for breakfast it was hog brains. My folks when I was young would always tell me they were scrambled eggs. Still can’t swing em.

My Aunt and Uncle had one of those too, the only one I ever saw. We used a cast iron pot heated over an open fire for making lard and lye soap and to heat bath water also when I was small my mother used it and a scrub board to wash our clothes. God did they have to work hard back then.

Great post wolfdog. Was going thru a bunch of old pictures the other day and found some of our old hog killings. We would do the scalding in hot water. Thanks for the post

Looks like my family when I was growing up, we'd get 20 or so family members together and everyone had a job even down to the kids. We'd kill 5 or so at a time, a lot of work but great times

People having fun working together-need more of that today.