Man, this is gold Tim. I would dearly love to have done something like this with my dad. He died in 2009 and that was when I brought back the shoebox of photos, not only of his, but of his mother's and my maternal grandparents' too. I scanned them all and started putting together a timeline and it was sad that I wasn't able to ask him questions and listen to him talk about those pictures. Keep working on it now while you can, as this stuff really is important. Of course my kids are going to have so much data to sift through that they won't know where to begin, but getting stories about people's lives is such a worthwhile and rewarding project. I did get to talk to my mum and her brother about a lot of photos, but there were a lot that neither of them could help me with.