Documenting personal photographs & snapshots is an important step in preserving a family’s history. 

How many of us have boxes (traditionally chocolate boxes or shoe boxes) filled with images) that one day we will get round to labelling?

How many of us have been bequeathed such boxes from the off-spring of passes-away relatives to find that a potential resource is rendered genealogically worthless because the people the people or events in the photographs have not been identified? 

The attached photograph was un-earthed in the collection of my late mother-in-law, Chrissie McLean (ms (Robertson). There was nobody identifiable in the iconic shot. 

Tucked away in the envelope in which it was found, was a wedding invitation to my mother-in-law’s sister, Mary Robertson (my late wife’s aunt).  Bingo!

The event was the marriage of Margaret Cook Sinclair to James Wardrop on 26 july 1933. at Hamilton Baptist Church.

Perusal of the Scotland Peoples website revealed that Margaret Sinclair was a Biscuit Factory Supervisor. As was Mary Robertson. 

The photograph now has renewed meaning. 

The Moral? Don’t wait until tomorrow. Get labelling – particularly if you still have older relatives who can help!