Acquiring, digitizing, and archiving large amounts of antique photographs, albums, and postcards, thereby rescuing them from obscurity, is time consuming and expensive. Each time we use facial recognition to match persons in one photo with those in others also requires resources. Our efforts provide you the chance to find something valuable that may directly relate to you and your family history, because we are convinced that photographs of your ancestors are out there.

Here are a few ways you can contribute.

• Purchase a paid membership. While you can still enjoy the Visual Ancestor library as a free member, a paid member ...
• Donate unwanted pre-1940 photographs, albums, and postcards.
• Make a financial donation, all of which are earmarked to help pay to operate the Visual Ancestor library, such as maintaining the website and expanding the amount of antique photographs, albums, and postcards we maintain -- either physically or digitally.