First a bit of history and context, what this is all about.
Back in the late 1980s and 1990s, my late sister Valerie Moore (née Lambert) became interested in the research of our family history, along with our late step-mother Joan Lambert. This was pre-Internet days, so it meant a lot of travelling and tracking down of old records in churches and registration offices. Val took copious notes at the time and sent me these notes just before she died. Val hadn't actually constructed any family trees, I think she became overwhelmed by the amount of data, so sent it to her nerdy big brother to sort out.
Coincidentally, back in the early 2000s, it became apparent to both me that the older generation was dying off; I was about to become the oldest survivor of the clan Herbert/Lambert. If we were to preserve our family photos and history, word-of-mouth story telling by the elders (like in the olden days) was not going to work because our family was now scattered worldwide. But the wonderful Internet changed all that for ever.
During the noughties and up until 2018, I was living in the French Alps (to ski) through the winters. I started to post photos online on the social media of the time and on a website I created. But there was an immediate privacy issue with peoples names and details on the publicly available website. So I had to remove all the family history stuff. The original social media sites like Friends Reunited and MySpace had no prospect of a long life. Just like Facebook, etc.. They will be history in 50 years time. All of the photos, videos and posts gone.
Val was very keen for me to preserve all the family history and photos she had un covered, so I started to combine skiing photos with copies of the old photographs (which I scanned on a flatbed scanner) and to add anecdotes explaining the WHO, WHERE and WHEN of the old photos. I had plenty of assistance from many family members and progressed towards building family trees.
All of this in the form of a website created and stored on my ancient PCs. The great advantage is that it will still be able to be viewed in 50 years time, as long as the original files do not get lost. The files are on Google Drive at the moment and I am hoping that as many family members as possible will download the folder PhotoAlbum so that we have multiple backup copies.