Have you ever been to an antique shop or watched Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in the PBS series Finding Your Roots and noticed how emotional everyone gets when they discover generations of family pictures?
Each of the 600 million pictures digitized by ScanMyPhotos has similar nostalgia stories. But, what happens if they disappear?
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Longtime CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann uncovered a story about lost and found pictures. “Stranger finds family shown in treasure trove of decades-old photos” has a happy ending, as 35mm slides were recovered and returned to their owner.
TYRONE, Ga. — When Kristie Baeumert found a $15 vintage slide projector at Goodwill, it came with a mystery. She found a family’s old set of slides, showing smiling girls and a woman who was dressed to the nines. “I love these pictures,” she said after finding the images. “I feel like I know this family at this point.” Minutes after CBS News shared her story last week, a viewer contacted Kristie, bringing her together with the family in the old slides — Theda Robertson, now 88, and her daughters Deborah and Treva.
