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MOTHER LODE!

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SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 14 Nov 2007 05:08

Deb,

Same here! It's quite magical looking at a studio photo moutned on card, pocket sized of someone born in the ealry part of the 19th century!

I wonder if they had these taken with the idea of giving them to family or friends?? Some of them are really quite tiny!



sylvia

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

Deb needs a change

Deb needs a change Report 14 Nov 2007 04:59

Ooohhhhhh, you lucky thing...................I'm green with envy!

All I've got is one wedding photo taken in 1905. It has got my 3xg/grandmother in it though. She was 93 when it was taken and died just a few months later.

When I look at it, it's hard to imagine that I'm looking at a woman born in 1812............................as you say, priceless!!!!!


Although I don't know what most of my old rellies looked like, I have a mental picture of them.



Deb:-)

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 14 Nov 2007 03:56

I'm still floating with excitement!!

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 13 Nov 2007 20:00

Got his maternal grandparents wedding photo .... 1906

Got hsi paternal great grandmother and her sister .... both as youngish women and older.


Ma-in-aw wrote in pencil on the back of many of them, but there are a number unidentified.


I think I'm going to try to scan them on to sheets of paper (and into 'puter), so we don't do too much damage to them.


sylvia

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

jen yorkshire

jen yorkshire Report 13 Nov 2007 19:59

what a xmas pressie...lucky you,:))

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 13 Nov 2007 19:58

Oh, if I could only find a similar lode for my own family!

BUT



I fear that this kind of thing might be what aunt burnt in 1991 after her husband died. :((((((((((((((

sobs


sylvia

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

Lewella

Lewella Report 13 Nov 2007 19:56

Wow, Sylvia, what a find! Have fun pouring over all of those goodies

Lewella x

Ozibird

Ozibird Report 13 Nov 2007 19:52

Sylvia - how wonderful. Lucky, lucky you.

Ozi.

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 13 Nov 2007 19:44

Neil,

I'm just blown away.

Husband said he'd found it last week, but he only showed me last night!


It may answer some of the questions of who married who ........









..... but the studio photos are priceless!!

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

Neil

Neil Report 13 Nov 2007 19:42

Awesome find - wish i could find stuff like that!!

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 13 Nov 2007 19:39

A term from Gold Rush days!

Husband's mother moved into a care home around 1988 and sent much stuff over here. Included was a small leather attache case containing Super 8 cines of husband as a small child. We put it on one side. Last week husband decided it was time to see if these cines could be moved to cd or dvd, so got out case to take to local photographic dealer.

He decided to see how many cines were in the case.

Beneath them was the Mother Lode ...................... photographs of his mother's and father's families going back to the mid-1800s (ggrandma, ggreataunt, and unknown males)), funeral service notices, and wedding cake cards.

All apparently saved by his aunt between about 1880 and the mid-1940s


Boy have I got a lot of work to do!!!



sylvia.

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.