Awesome find

[greeneyedsadie]

So yesterday we found my Great Grandfather Fred's baptismal certificate from 1896, and on it were the names of his parents, Martin and Elizabeth, my Great Great Grandparents.

Yes! I have had these awesome pictures that I haven't been able to scan yet because I didn't have these names.

Let Elizabeth in the 1880s invite you in:

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[greeneyedsadie]

She looks very short. I love the photograph of her and Minnie in 1935. I love having mothers in law in pictures together. I have a few from my Dad's side as well.

Thank you - I agree that my family has a lot of character. My great grandfather Fred decided he didn't want to go into the coal mines like the rest of his family and went and enlisted with the Navy in WWI. When he got out, he decided to go to Hollywood in the 20s and was extremely successful as a carpenter and making models for films, like King Kong in 1933. In going through all these old boxes, I have found poetry, pictures, bibles and handkerchiefs, all these things from the past, things that my family made. It has really made me feel closer to these people I have never met, and also closer to my living family as I want to connect with relatives. I'm doing genealogy next, once I finish scanning photos. I'm almost done. Almost all modern ones left now, which I hate because I'm in them (boo).

[avalonjones]

In going through all these old boxes, I have found poetry, pictures, bibles and handkerchiefs, all these things from the past, things that my family made.

There really isn't anything more awesome than that. You're a lucky woman with a wonderful family. <3

[greeneyedsadie]

OMG I am so lucky. I can't believe we had such a treasure trove. I had no idea.

[christhegeek]

Elizabeth still has the same sparkle in her eye in 1910 :)

[greeneyedsadie]

Yes! I look at these pictures of my Great Great grandparents, who were born in the late 1800s, and I think about all the changes they saw from the late 1800s to the 1940s and 50s. They saw electricity come into use, and telephones, and appliances and radio and then television and I wonder what it must have been like. Then again, we have seen SO many changes in our lifetimes, and we just roll with it and embrace it, so maybe they did too.

[purplefrog26]

These are great. I really like the group shot (what a hat!) and the mothers-in-law.

[greeneyedsadie]

I love the hat. And the mothers in law picture is one of my favorites.

[h_p_d]

what a precious find