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Category: Family Photographs

  • Thirty-four Years Ago

  • Schmitt Siblings

    This picture has appeared on my blog before, but it is so special it deserves another post. Four Schmitt siblings are in this photo. The gentleman in the center was born Jean Nicolas Schmitt on 16 May 1841 in Hellimer Moselle Lorraine France, the third son of Nicolas Schmitt and his wife Marie-Anne…

  • Not on April Fool’s Day!

    My mother said her mother refused to have her baby on the first of April; there would be no April Fool’s baby for her! Mom’s April second birth certificate does not prove or disprove this story, but it does provide a couple other interesting tidbits. Like many other babies of…

  • World Back Up Day

    Ever lost an important computer file? Suffered a system failure? Celebrate World Back Up Day by backing up your computer files, saving those precious photographs, and storing additional copies of important documents in multiple safe places. Don’t live with regret – take a minute or two today to save something you’d…

  • Why Not Real Estate?

    Thanks to my wonderful cousin Sandy, I have a really neat picture of one of my collateral ancestors. And a new question. If real estate was the largest part of his business (an assumption based on it’s position on the window), why is insurance the only part of Otto V.…

  • Bateman Elementary School

    Among my late mother’s photographs were class pictures taken when she and her brother attended elementary school. Being a genealogist of course I Googled the name of the school. And there I stumbled upon a page where Chicago’s Newton Bateman Elementary School displayed some of their alumni. One quick email to…

  • Girl Scout Birthday

    Happy Birthday Girl Scouts! On this day in 1912 Juliette Gordon Low officially registered the organization’s first 18 girl members in Savannah, Georgia. Most of my Girl Scout days were enjoyed as a junior scout. I had the best leader ever and have many fond memories of scouting. This picture was taken…

  • Behind the Camera

    If there was a fire and I could save only one thing, it would be a box of pictures. These snippets of life are treasured moments of my ancestors and they mean the world to me. Many of the pictures in my collection are far from perfect. During my learning…

  • Earning a Living during the Depression

    Grandpa was one of the kindest men I have ever known. So two of the family stories about him make me cringe every time I hear them. Born on this day in 1905, John George Walton was a married father of two during the worst days of the Great Depression. Having…

  • She Was Once Young

    When you meet someone who is old, do you think they were always old? Or do you wonder about the path that led them to this place, the events that shaped them into the person standing before you? Ranghild Katarina Henrietta Tolf a.k.a. “Auntie” was my great-grandfather‘s sister. She was a surrogate grandmother…