aaah the good old days


These are the eldest 8 of my grandmas 14 siblings


My grandma on the far left


The whole family - my grandma with the looped braids

For some reason looking at these make me feel sad, like a lifetime ago, memories that are lost.

oh wow charlotte! those are amazing. i know what you mean too. i look at old family photos and get like that too.

thanks for sharing. i'm going to upload some really old family photos to photobucket.

fantasyislander said:

only 2 of those people in the last group photo are still alive now

It's amazing--they're practically all younger than us in those photos. Life moves so fast.

Your grandma looks a bit like you, doesn't she? That makes it even weirder. When I see young pics of old relatives, I feel almost like I've lived a whole life and died already--I see my face in them.

ZombieKitten said:

none of the people in my photos are alive.


this is my great grandpa william



this is a pic of my dad, i think it's positively freaky how much they look alike.



this is great grandpa william holding my grandpa asher when he was a baby. i believe this was taken around 1902 or 03. looking at how old grandpa is it'd have to be around then.



this is on my grandma's side (asher's wife), this is one of her aunts, lillie mae. it's weird how ALL the baby's in our family look like this. i did, my daughter did, my cousins did.... when i saw this pic the first time i was shocked at the resemblance.



here's that same baby a little older, and with her little sister liddie belle.



this is my grandpa in 1933



and my grandma in 1935.




i have others but i think this is enough.

wow!!!!! these are so cool! especially the 2 little girls who look like dolls

Wow, those are fantastic.

come on! anyone else have olden days pics in their cupboard somewhere? Hills has the oldest one so far

NDRU said:

yeah she does a bit in the bottom photo!

ZombieKitten said:

i guess no one!

here's one i posted before
paternal great grandmother

tough old bird... leaving everything behind and moving to a new country
after you've already raised a bunch of kids
and starting over in a sod shack in the middle of the barren prairie.

Great pics from everyone. I absolutely love old family photos.

I'm too lazy to scan my own though.

minneapolisgenius said:

come on!

ZombieKitten said:

I will.

Tomorrow.

At Christmas I saw some wonderful pictures of my father, his sisters and their parents (both who've passed away, my grandfather before I really knew him ), but I didn't get a chance to scan them. We did get some nice pictures with my nan (last remaining grandparent who's a blood relative) and grandad though.



There probably are pics of some of my relatives online though. I believe my great-great (or is great-great-great?) grandfather was involved in catching notorious criminal Charlie Peace.

I'll do a search online.

Oh, and a female relative who was on the Titanic and survived. She was an artist and when I was young I found a small sketch book of hers in my other nan's cupboard and duly added a few stunning drawings of my own.

Fauxie said:

wow!

ZombieKitten said:

Yep. I don't recall the name now, but I believe we've still got the sketch book somewhere, complete with my artistic efforts.

My cousin Julia would know about it. She's been working on a family tree for a while now and looking into the relative who was involved in catching cat burglar and murderer Charlie Peace too.

Just looked on a Titanic survivors list but didn't see the name and recognise it. I should find out what it is again really. It'd be interesting to look into her life in more detail, if possible.

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My Gramps

1942 Cape Town

omg family resemblance!!!!

Some nice old photos here. My uncle traced back to 1700C in my family tree on my mothers side dont think there are any photos of any ofthem prior to my grandfather and he died in 1940ish will try to Speak to my aunty on my dads side to see how far back I can go.

oldpurple said:

well even engravings and oil paintings will do!

ZombieKitten said:

how about a brass bust?

oldpurple said:

even better!

I have some really good old family pix ... i do not own a scanner though.
I wonder if I could take a pic of a pic

Im told that Im related I do resemble this person (1850 ish)

hair line LOL
cheeks and jaw

Mach said:

you can always try!

great great grandparents seated in front (1912)
my great grandmother seated beside her father
her husband standing behind with his hand on her shoulder


that same year (might have been the same day, who knows) their son was married
my paternal grandparents (oh to have a waist that small!)
my skinny sister wore that dress to a bridal shower fashion show when she was 16
but she was built like a toothpick (grandma was 18, grandpa was 23)


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emm said:

omg!!!! these are fantastic! the hand on the shoulder thing is a good idea

My maternal grandmother as a child

aaaaaw cute!!