April 5, 2006
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Who we is.
My great-nephew Stefan was up last night to get genealogy info for a class project. I’m the family keeper of such information, and he was rather amazed to learn about some of this stuff. First, let me share some photos. I’ve shared these before, but they’re photos that mean a lot to all of us, so deal.
First, my mom and dad, on their wedding day (they eloped!) August 18, 1941.
And these are my father’s parents, Warren and Rose Meyer, taken, I think, a few years before her death. (1955? Kim was a baby, they tell me – before my time. I’m not NEARLY as old as Kim is!
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This photo is kind of fun – first, because these three gents are so snappy lookin’. When my dad’s cousin and I were going through a box of photos she’d found at her mother’s after her death, we saw this photo and thought they must be from her father’s side of the family because they look like wealthy young men and we didn’t think of Pap’s family that way – my great-grandfather was a well-driller by trade. And then we went to visit my Aunt Jean – Dad’s sister, and immediately when she saw it she said, “That’s Dad and Uncle Sam and Uncle Hap!”
My grandfather is the one on the left. From his age, I’d say this photo was taken sometime in around 1915 or earlier.
And then my great-grandfather, Russell Meyer. He died in 1949, at the age of 85 and I don’t think he looks that old here so this photo was probably taken in the 30s at the latest.
And finally, the “mystery” photo…
We haven’t been able to positively identify these people. That’s almost certainly my father in the scarf, but my dad’s cousin is convinced the girls are her sisters. Of course, it doesn’t HAVE to be members of only one immediate family. Anyone with any clues or even guesses, let me know. Grace, (dad’s cousin) Aunt Jean and I have all puzzled over it a great deal!
So, that’s my little trip down memory lane, inspired by Stefan’s homework.
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Comments (8)
I love love love old photos and never get tired of them. Even if I don’t know the people, I love the clothes the expressions, everything about them. One thing I do know for certain, while I have similar pictures of my family as the bottom one, I am not related to those people
Thanks for sharing!
found this incredibly interesting!!!
I love old pictures too. When I see old photo albums at a thrift shop or flea market, sometimes in beautiful albums, I’m always sad to think they’re not being treasured by desendants of the people in them.
I think the same thing. There’s got to be someone to whom they’d mean something. When Blanche (the woman we sisters had taken care of for 6 years) died, she had all of these “Woman of the Year” and “Teacher of the Year” plaques that just went to an auction. Her son didn’t want them. I bet they ended up trashed.
That made me very sad to.
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My, your mom and dad were an exceptionally handsome pair. Your dad’s the picture of command and protection, and your mom’s expression is the definitin of sweet. She has very nice legs, too!
We always thought they cleaned up well.
Dad was a very commanding figure – and he was only a staff sergeant then! And mom was sweet. And a looker!
Thanks, Eleanor.
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I like your Grandmother’s looks, as well as your mother’s. She looks like a “fine woman”.
As to the picture on the bottom, looking at the composition…could your father have been visiting a family? Doesn’t that other man look possesive of the girls? We could make up a wonderful story about them, I bet.
I am very glad that several in my family were journalers…we have been able to figure out lots of pictures from the journals.
Here is the dire warning, people! Write the stories that go with the pictures or they will be meaningless to following generations!!! Thank you, getting off my soap box now.
You’re absolutely right, Peg. Although, if you look closely at the line of the jaw on the father (so to speak) in the photo, not to mention that GI Joe-grip hand so famous in the generations) and compare it to that photo of my grandfather as a young man (the one on the left, in that photo of the three dapper young men) I think you can see they are one and the same – really, I believe that. I’ve compared the photo with birthdates and it seems very possible. And it would make sense that we’d look at the girls and wonder if they’re my aunts or Grace’s sisters – they’re first cousins, after all. But the ages could work although it looks like a daughter is missing, which would have been true for Grace’s family, too.
WRITE ON THE BACKS OF YOUR PHOTOS, PEOPLE!
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