An Expanding American StoryA story of who we are,
A story of who we are,
what we have become, and will be.
This history began with a Tuthill name. It has expanded forward, back and sideways to compose names and histories, friends and love. What is kept here is heritage in its plainest form: faces, days and places, set down so that those who come after can know where they are from, and what they are part of.
Mike and Sandra Hussie
In memoriam · 1933 – 2026Mike Hussie
Legacy of Love, Phil Smith's book about Mike and Sandra, is here to read page by page, or to listen to: read aloud in twelve parts, about 2 hours.
4,610photographs
2,975with a named family member
28family members named
20family friends named
568occasions dated
1,517still need a name
Where you can help
1,517 photographs have nobody named in them yet.
Open one and every face in it is a box you can name. Recognise a cousin, a neighbour, a classmate: name them once and it follows them through the rest of the album.
Start with the biggest occasion01 · The family tree
15 generations, drawn
Parents, marriages, divorces; drag anyone into place.02 · Faces without a name137 faces seen again and again
Not photographs but people: each turns up in several prints and still has no name. Each shows who they were photographed with.03 · Occasions568 dated so far
A birth year or a remembered date places a whole roll of film.04 · What changedEvery name, as it was given
A quiet record of who was named when, newest first.