[or-roots] My old photo story

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Denise
Do any of your Shoemaker lines trace back to Nebraska or Kansas, my wifes family has Shoemakers and the related names are Aumiller.
Glen Portland, Oregon

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Glen A. Jones

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From: "Denise Merritt" <merritthome1 at cableone.net> 

> I had to add a happier story. In years past I went around asking relatives 
> about old photos. Some showed me what they had and some kept them secret! 
> Eventually I received a book of old photos but many weren't labeled 
> (this was on my maternal grandmother's side). 
> 
> When a cousin on my maternal grandFATHER's side died another cousin called 
> me to come look at the photos he'd received to send on to the cousin in the 
> Will. There were MANY and some were labeled. Both sides of the family were 
> from the Roseburg area. In looking over the photos I found one that 
> appeared in the other photo book (unlabeled). It was a photo of my direct 
> ancestor on my maternal grandMOTHER's side. It was labeled so now I knew 
> who was in the photo in my possession! Apparently they had been friends and 
> so had a photo of an ancestor on my OTHER side of the family labeled in the 
> second collection. 
> 
> Sad to say (for me) the photos were "willed" to a cousin who has now died 
> and I can't seem to find their descendants to learn what happened to the 
> collection. All the same, I felt blessed to have seen them and identified 
> another of my own unlabeled collection. 
> 
> I have a small group of photos of my one branch that were the only clues to 
> the family history when I first began. They were labeled with things like 
> "your sister, Myrtle and a son"; "your brother Jim and his first wife, 
> Mary"; your brother Jim's children (3 in the photo). With those scant clues 
> I did track down the siblings in Kansas & Illinois & Missouri. Just this 
> week I've found a third cousin who had no photos of the family so I'm able 
> to send him scanned photos of his ancestors. I'm always trying to share so 
> I have gotten my warm holiday feelings from this latest connection. 
> 
> So...my moral is...keep all old photos and keep looking for those cousins. 
> 
> Denise 
> Descendant of AGEE, ATTERBURY, BLAKELY, CHESTER, COLLARD, CRAWFORD, GAGE, 
> GILLIAM, KENT, LANDRETH, LIVINGSTON, MATTHEWS, SHAFF, SHOEMAKER, SIMMONS, & 
> THORNTON lines in Oregon (many of those were in Coos, Jackson Polk or 
> Douglas Counties) 
> 
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