The idea of a family website originated from Sue and Walt's wedding in 2005. Both families scanned their archives for old photos dating from the 1900's and put together an electronic family "slide show". These were exchanged within the family on CD. The next step was to put them onto this website so they are available to future generations. It is work in progress....
Besides family photos, the website has (or is becoming) a repository of various items of scattered information that would otherwise be lost. Whether this is of interest to anyone, now or in the future, is unknown. But there is a simple remedy - just ignore what is not of interest!
The main sections so far are: (many are work in progress...):
Historical family photos and some early family history
Collet family 1856 to 1950
Heher family 1900 to 1950
Hehers 1950 - 2000, covering Jenny & Tony growing up, getting married, Doug and Sue growing up, etc. There are about 20 sub-pages
Heher family 1998 to approx 2017 including some background on Ralph; and our "old style" Christmas Letters from 1998 to 2014, Jenny's funeral July 2017 and making sense of Ralph's life
2020 The Covid years and other momentous events
Yearly "diary" 2024 onwards. This is instead of writing a Christmas letter which was a tradition for many years. 2023 will also possibly be added as a lot happened
Note: While the site is more or less in chronological order, some information is grouped thematically with date overlap. Besides the navigation bar on the left, where relevant pages are "linked" to provide a story flow.
Another reason for reviving and updating this site is to keep up with Sally! She has a collection of 44 albums (so far, growing by 1 or 2 a year) , each with 400-500 photos, momentos, etc. They are an amazing rich repository of information about her life which her grandchildren are taking an increasing interest in. I can't compete, so decided a website was my best alternative!