Howdy Melinda! Wonderful photos here, I get a kick out of those. Our family's house burned to the ground when I was a freshman in college so there went our thousands of old family photos. My father was a photographer so he had literally tens of thousands and all those great old photos were gone, I miss those.
Another reason I need to get more of the ones I have scanned. That is so sad and a story that is heard far to often. How awful that must have been for your family.
Yeah it was very bad but you are wise in getting yours scanned and preserved!