Unexpected family photos

I received a message via Ancestry Messaging.

Back in 1967, I had spent a few days with Wilfred and Jessie Anderson in England. They were wonderful to me. Jessie was a first cousin and long-time "pen pal" of my mother. After Jessie's death, Wilfred remarried and moved to Scotland. Years passed, Wilf died and his step-daughter, Sarah, found that she had inherited Jessie's old family photos. along with those of her mother. She did not want to put them in the trash, so she went looking for someone who might want them. She found Jessie in my tree at Ancestry.com and so she contacted me.

I let her know that if the people in the photos are identified I would love to have them, and I would be happy to pay the postage, She sent me a photo of a table top covered with the photos. My plan is to scan them, upload them to FamilySearch, create an Album there, and share the link to the Album with all the relatives possible. .

Sarah sent them at her own expense. And to make sure the photos were not lost n the mail, she scanned them and sent me a link to her Dropbox folder. This allowed me to download the photos and start work on them before they physically arrived. I was able to colorize or restore the color of many of them using my MyHeritage account, before emailing them to my extended family..

I received a message from a cousin in England, thanking me for sending the photos Some of the emails bounced because the attachment was too large, so I plan to create 3 smaller attachments for those specific people and try again. 

I appreciate technology. When I started my pursuit of family history in the 1960s, paper and the postal service were the state of the art  (And they may be slow but they still work.)