Wish I had paid more attention, as a kid

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My sister still has the photos, but at this point they're just a bunch of photos.

Often you can find genealogy search threads related to your surname which will yield valid e-mail contact with cousins you never heard of who have some of the same pictures, with labels. Also, I have found family members identified in website pages hosted by historical societies local to where they lived, donated by descendants of someone else in the photo.