in 2002 the CCT was very busy creating digital copies of photo albums for the community. Believe it or not, scanning your photos and saving to a disk was pretty new technology! As we were completing this task we realised that so many photo albums contained images of other people – football games, school events, dances and so much more. This lead to the idea of a whole community photo album – called Memoirs. Beginning as a dvd and small booklet, the collection of images grew quickly to over 12,000! After we released Memoirs version 2 it was apparent we needed an online solution and Memoirs Online was born.
In 2019, the 100 year anniversary of mining in Collinsville, we redesigned Memoirs Online and Our Stories Unearthed was born.