[or-roots] Photos

[Chris Havnar]

Les C.,

  We got boxes of pictures of unlabeled or partially label pictures when my
mother-in-law passed.  There were TONS of pictures of Uncle JOHN, obviously
different Uncle John's.  Part of why I started genealogy was to figure out
who these folks were.  It depended on who's handwritting wrote Uncle John

I did make a date with my mother and made a special trip to see her, and we
were to label all her pictures during the week I stayed with her.  There
are several containers of pictures that do have an index card in front that
say something along the lines of "one of my trips, not family" /s/Mom-Gran

We did go through all her pictures, labeled most of them, those she did not
want to label, we took the picture  photocopied it and wrote the names on
the photocopy.  Additionally, for some of those lovely treasures that
mothers cannot bear to part with, but the remaining children just might
squabble over, she sorted into four piles for her four children.  Those
treasurers were photos, school stuff, treasures of that kind.

Chris

At 12:09 PM 4/1/2004 -0800, Leslie Chapman wrote:

SNIP
>
>In case you are wondering, just got two boxes of stuff that belonged to the
>widow of my namesake, and I have just one thing to say; LABEL ALL OF YOUR
>PHOTOS!!! And as has been mentioned, full names please, not "Uncle Happy" or
>the like.
>
>I have no idea who most of the hundred or two photos have in them, I have
>some clues as I should be able to recognize most of My side of the family so
>figure most of them have to be Auntie's kin, most of whom I have never met.
>Sad thing is my memory is so bad I don't even know them in a some of the
>photos I suspect they are in.
>
>I have two very attractive young women in studio photo printed in Portland
>probably roughly 1920 to 1940, could be my own kin I don't recognize or
>Aunties cousins or just a couple of friends? maybe a dozen photos of three
>young ladies with bear rug, various apparently gag photos, also apparently
>related 20 or thirty zoot suit model A riding young men and women in various
>poses places with other photos, only label in whole bunch is "the rear of
>the house" now doesn't that help me!!
>
>Trust me unless you get me booted off the list you will be hearing more
>about these boxes.
>
>Oh, what I started to say is one of the "treasures" is a Shell state highway
>map published in 1942.
>
>Les C
>