"That's my grandma!" Found Family on Flickr Commons

This Data Lifeboat was created by Flickr Foundation on 29 September 2025.

Why are you making this particular Data Lifeboat?
This Data Lifeboat captures one of the most interesting aspects of social cataloguing on Flickr Commons: Flickr members stumbling across family members in archival imagery! Flickr Commons members have found they can even use their presence on Flickr to crowdsource information and update archives. In this case, that means adding firsthand details to photos in their collection from family members of the subjects.

What's important to you about these photos?
These photos are a significant micro-collection highlighting the power of sharing imagery and information on Flickr.

What is it for?
This Data Lifeboat was built for educational and archiving use.

Additional Questions

Imagine your Data Lifeboat is unearthed in 60 years from now. What would you want the person looking at it to know?
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And what would you want them to know about you?
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How would you feel if someone made this Data Lifeboat public after that length of time?
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Can you think of anything you wouldn't want that person to use this Data Lifeboat for?
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What do you know about the people in these pictures?
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Are you a member of the community or communities depicted in this Data Lifeboat?
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How do you imagine those people would feel about you including pictures of them?
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Can you think of any potential privacy issues people in the images may have concerns about—or be compromised by? Even a long time from now?
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Who would you like to share this Data Lifeboat with?
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Where are you planning to keep it?
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Do you think this archive contains any sensitive information future viewers should know about, even in comments or descriptions?
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What unintended consequences or potential harms can you envision?
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If you think about this Data Lifeboat coming from a moment in time, what else could you say about the collection? What contemporary information or trends or contexts might be interesting to note?
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What kind of harmful material is lurking in this Data Lifeboat, or what convinced you there isn't any?
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If you could donate this Data Lifeboat to any archive in the world, which one would you choose, and why?
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