A mother realized that she had never shown her four-and-a-half-year-old son her own baby pictures. After going through the family photo album and showing the pictures to the little boy, he said, "If those are your baby pictures, where are the dinosaurs?"(1)

In John Steinbeck's great novel, THE GRAPES OF WRATH, a migrating "Okie" family is told not to waste vital packing space on photographs and other items of family history and memories. One of the family members objects and asks, "How will we know it's us without our past?"

Family Albums are fun to look at. The remind us who we are. They capture moments of our history that evoke all kinds of emotions.

When my Mom died, one of the things I was able to do was put together a video tribute of her life. My brothers and cousins and Uncle and…