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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsPost a photo of one of your ancestors. Here is my mom on the beach in Nova Scotia. I love it!
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Taverner
(55,476 posts)applegrove
(118,600 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Elizabeth Taylor.
frogmarch
(12,153 posts)land scenery. In that order. Lovely picture all the way around.
My dad is the one sitting on the log. The other boy was a friend of his. The picture was taken in the early 1920s when my dad was in his teens.
The picture below is of my birth mother in India, who died when I was about 2 weeks old. In the photo, which was taken before she was married, she is sitting on her bike with her dog.
applegrove
(118,600 posts)hunk. So sorry you never got a chance to meet your mom. What a feminist she must have been to be driving around on a bike in that day and age.
frogmarch
(12,153 posts)"Speedy," I was told by her family. She loved driving fast cars and motorcycles. She was the only woman in her family who knew how to drive.
I too think my dad was good looking. I haven't seen any movie stars who I think resembles him, but my sisters and I and our step-mom all agreed that in every way except looks, he was very much like Atticus Finch as portrayed by Gregory Peck in the movie To Kill a Mockingbird. Dad died at age 52, when I was 15. I still miss him.
A crop of him in his high school football picture:
applegrove
(118,600 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)bluesbassman
(19,369 posts)That's a lovely picture BTW applegrove. Your mom's lovely and looks very happy there.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)looks a lot like an ancestor a cousin and I have named "Pierre the one-celled Frenchman"
The resemblance is amazing...
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)Saburo Asahina
bluesbassman
(19,369 posts)How did you find this?
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)Some from Japanese museums ...This came to attention to me, via my father who recieved an email.
applegrove
(118,600 posts)AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)"totally cool!"
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)and that you'd want to have on your side when something hit the fan - a badass, IOW.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,661 posts)1785-1847, photograph taken in Belfast, probably a daguerrotype.
applegrove
(118,600 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,661 posts)and there were some earlier chemical processes in the 1820s.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)The image in a dag is on a glass plate. This appears to be on paper.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,661 posts)Not sure where the original is - I think my uncle has it. It might also have been a calotype, but the paper one shown is a copy of whatever it is.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)My great uncle, Hector Auclair, whom I never knew.
He looks like he might have been a bit of a lady's man.
We share the same birthday (October 20)
And his sister, Edna...my dad's mom. I never knew her, either. She did not have an easy life. I really wish I could have known her.
monmouth
(21,078 posts)Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)Ptah
(33,024 posts)Far right, my paternal grandfather, woman next to the baby, my paternal grandmother.
P.S. Your mom looks happy in that picture, applegrove.
Thanks for sharing.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)It's a striking image.
Ptah
(33,024 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)or farther south?
Ptah
(33,024 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)In the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan.
Brother Buzz
(36,412 posts)MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)applegrove
(118,600 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,412 posts)MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)He's my Great Uncle
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)She has a lovely high forehead, and my dear Aunt Alice would have said the high forehead is a sign of intelligence.
Nice photo.
MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)Educators, entrepreneurs, government employees, moms, aunts and cousins
Old Troop
(1,991 posts)MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)I can't ask my mom, she died many years ago. I did ask one of the other women in the picture, my cousin and she told me that she couldn't remember that, if you can believe that or not.
If I were in that pic, I would have remembered. I'm thinking late '50s to around 1960 though.
WolverineDG
(22,298 posts)edited to add: my cousin looks almost exactly like her!
applegrove
(118,600 posts)WolverineDG
(22,298 posts)it's taken from the actual picture of her.
sakabatou
(42,146 posts)applegrove
(118,600 posts)sakabatou
(42,146 posts)Dunno about anyone else.
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)but that's like claiming that we're all related to Adam and Eve and the world is 6,000 years old. Of course we are all related, but it goes much further back than that.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)some Battleaxe, right?
applegrove
(118,600 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,580 posts)applegrove
(118,600 posts)tapermaker
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madamesilverspurs
(15,800 posts)Commodore Silas Talbot, first to command U.S.S. Constitution "Old Ironsides"
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Myrina
(12,296 posts)Knut and Augusta Andersen, Solum Norway, and their family.
My great grandmother (maternal side), Amanda Semina Andersen, is the youngest daughter(sitting down, in front).
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Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,563 posts)I think she's a Mom.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)polly7
(20,582 posts)My Mom and Dad:
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hunter
(38,309 posts)My great grandmas were all strong women.
SwissTony
(2,560 posts)applegrove
(118,600 posts)Joe Shlabotnik
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applegrove
(118,600 posts)yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)in my mind someone doesn't have ancestral status unless they died before I was born.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)Notorious because she was once arrested for showing her ankle in public!
And notorious because her estate that included 60 acres of lower Manhattan was never settled and has been disputed since her death.
http://bp3.blogger.com/_10LAK1tX3R8/SDDvk-siaHI/AAAAAAAABp8/qGfiZdbtsWQ/s400/Anneke+Jans.jpg
The belle of Nieuw Amsterdam, in the 1600s.
Flaxbee
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Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)They were from two little towns around Kosciuscko, MS. Both went to Mississippi A&M and got master's degrees, and became county extension agents in MS and later in TX.
Grandmother was my only live grandparent when I was growing up. She died in 1985.
http://imgur.com/e09o7
applegrove
(118,600 posts)Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)She was born in 1898, he in 1894. She was still a county extension agent in TX when I was a small child. She retired in 1962.
She was blessed with an overactive thyroid and thought my mother and I were just "lazy". We both had an underactive thyroid and needed more sleep. Thanks for those inherited autoimmune disease tendencies, mom!!
ashling
(25,771 posts)left to right: Francis Delesly Holmes -(with the beard) my great grandfather was a Texas Populist in the 1880s - 1890s ; Lee Lamar Pickett (on steps holding child) this was my grandfather; The child is my uncle Harold, seated in the rocking chair behind grandad is my grandmother: Mattie Hortense Holmes Pickett; In the other rocking chair sits my great grandmother, Mary Ann Gunter Holmes.
I have a quilt that she sewed in 1864 when she was 16:
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she used to tell my father stories of hearing the siege cannon at Vicksburg. The lived in Monroe Parish Louisiana.
applegrove
(118,600 posts)JCMach1
(27,555 posts)He was one of the last living Confederate veterans... He was drafted and not exactly an enthusiastic participant (He went AWOL on a number of occasions).