A great way to display images and a little touch of your family history is to make color copies and frame them. This frame cost maybe $7 with the matt, so there is instant savings... it also is a nice wood, so it can be used for many different rooms in our house if we choose. I have a box of pictures that are of my grandparents (Melissa's Granny and Pa Mann) and they made sweet notes on the backs of alot of them. 

I love that they would do that, so I copied each side and framed it in this less than pricey frame, but it still looks like a piece of nice artwork. It's a great way to talk about your family (that is, if you LIKE your family history....) and to have another neat piece on a wall that normally might just have a mirror hanging on it.