Ask your family if they have any old photographs to help you tell your family's story. Maybe you will be allowed to photocopy them or scan them for your computer. Make sure you find out as much as you can about the people in the photograph and when and where it was taken. You will probably find there are pictures of people whose names nobody knows. This can be very annoying but if you keep asking different relatives, maybe someone will know who they are.

The backs of very old photos will sometimes tell you the name of the photograph and the town where the picture was taken.

Here are some from my family collection.

This is my great great grandfather Philip Woolgar. It is a particularly nice photograph because it gives me lots of information. I can see what job he did, he was a milkman and there is an address on the cart which tells me where he came from. This picture was taken about 100 years ago. You may not be lucky enough to have any that are quite this old, but even more recent pictures can be part of your family history album.

Here is one of my mum when she was small.

Here is a picture of me taken near to where I live.

Don't forget that pictures of places are important too - my family used to live in this house. If you don't have pictures of the houses and villages where your family used to live, maybe you will be able to go and take some.

Family history comes right up to date, so don't forget to put a photo of yourself in the album.