Is it cheating to post a photo that I didn’t actually take? Yes? No? Ah, who cares, It’s my blog and I’ll do what I want. I scanned the image and that is about as close as I’ve gotten to photography this week.

This fine young gentleman is William Goforth Welch and he is my great-great-great-grandfather.His photo was among the huge collection of photos that my uncle loaned me for scanning last week. I spent approximately 38 hours scanning photos. Since getting home I’ve been spending a lot of time cleaning up the scans and building a directory to go with them. I’m about 16 hours into that project and I anticipate it taking about 100 hours.

When I was in Nebraska my uncle took me on a trip through the back roads of Kansas looking for William Goforth Welch’s grave.  I don’t quite get the excitement of photographing graves but I know that a lot of family history buffs think it is really important. For that reason I decided to take the photo… just in case I decide to get excited about it at a later date. I decided to post it here because I’m wracked with guilt for not using my own photo to lead off this post. Guilt is  a strong motivator and I am a total wimp… just ask Abbey who has taken over my desk and is forcing me to type with the keyboard in my lap. Wimpy, wimp wimp.