[or-roots] I like the old photos too!

Fri Dec 16 08:50:37 PST 2005

I have some COPPLE relatives descended in my GAGE family (Lemuel Copple 
married Margaret Gage in Nodaway County MO 1858).  They migrated from 
Kansas/Missouri to Oregon.  I grew up in Lincoln City.  Lemuel D. & his 
brother William A. Copple both died in Coos Bay.  You can see some info on 
the Copple's that are related to me on my web page I recently put up.

My genealogy data page is at 
http://myweb.cableone.net/merritthome1/genealogy

The rest of the Gage family had migrated to Oregon in 1844 leaving only one 
son (Reuben) to follow.  Reuben died in 1846 in Missouri but some of his 
descendants did eventually migrate out to Oregon and the Copple branch is 
one of those lines.  I don't find Betterton in my database.

Denise

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Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 8:26 AM
Subject: [or-roots] I like the old photos too!

Hi Listers,
I have been lurking for years on this board and rarely say anything but
the old photos thing got me.
I love the old photos and have quite a collection of unidentified
photos of people in Oregon and Washington and was thinking it would be
nice to have a website devoted to just NW photos. I know that I am
always looking for my families photos and bibles and it would be nice
to see what other Oregonians have in their collections.
My grandmother's unmarried sister's trunk full of old photos, postcards
and hair sample book, (she was trying her hand at hair weaving that was
popular then, so I have actually touched the hair of her parents who
were my grt grt grandparents). A cousin's family saved this trunk all
these years with contents untouched. I received a copy of all the
photos and have been able to identify some of them and share some of
them with descendants of my grt aunt's friends. I sent one lady a copy
of just her ancestor's siblings and she was thrilled! I've talked to so
many people who's family didn't receive any of the old family photos
and felt kind of bad about it. So, this trend to share these old photos
and get them identified is just great. I keep doing it in hopes that my
family bibles and things will surface. I just recently bought an old
album when I was in Lincoln City last weekend. It is a beautiful old
victorian album with the celuloid front cover and the velvet back with
tin types in the back of the album and only two photos with a name
written on the back. The surnames involved are BETTERTON and COOPER or
COPPLE. Most of the paper photos were taken in Missouri. I'm working on
finding the family but it might not be as easy as I thought. In my
spare time I also check the sites out there and then search the family
trees on Rootsweb and leave a post-it telling them about their family
photos and where they are. I just hate to see them sit when they could
be going home. : )
Thanks for listening!
Linda Purvis
Beaverton, OR
OR-HUNT,DOWNING,ESTEP,QUEENER,EDWARDS,BIDDIX,  WA-REDDICK,WEAVER,SPENCER

-----Original Message-----
From: glenkc7mbm at comcast.net
To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
Sent: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:30:03 +0000
Subject: Re: [or-roots] old photos 2

   Ronda
  If you have any idea where they might have been taken, such as here in
Oregon you could take the to the Historical Society and they might be
able to help, I have some I need to take in, they offered to help see
if they could Identify.
 Glen Portland

 --
Glen A. Jones

 -------------- Original message --------------
From: "Denise Merritt" <merritthome1 at cableone.net>
   Save the old photos - someday you might find someone who has a
matching one. (I'm an optimist). What a neat find!

 Denise
 ----- Original Message -----
 From: Ronda Howard
 To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
 Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 8:48 AM
 Subject: Re: [or-roots] old photos 2

  I have a related question for you all. While cleaning out my 86 year
old Mother-in-law's house we found her Mother-in-law's pictures. They
were inside a blanket box 20 x 20 x 6. There's at least 200 pictures
inside, all are on that 1/8 inch hardboard that old pictures are on.
I'd say the pictures are 80 to 120 years old and haven't seen the
light of day for decades. I plan to scan them. Actually I scanned 1/2
of them but the scanner was defective and there are streaks through the
pictures. What do I do with the actual pictures. Good for all of you
who are labeling your pictures. 80% of these are not identified, which
makes me sad. I know I'd absolutely love to know who these relatives
are.
 Ronda
 ----- Original Message -----
 From: George Ross
 To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
 Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 9:43 PM
 Subject: Re: [or-roots] old photos

  When putting together our family history photos we begin each
generational family with the family group sheet. The photos are added
after the group sheet beginning with photos of the parents and then
photos of the children. We also add documents such as birth
certificates, BLM land claims, letters, citations from books, wills,
census records, etc. and end with the death certificate(s) and
obituary(ies) and photos of grave stones when they are available. Then
we begin the next family.

  There is always a question of "how many photos" to add or "is it too
much information", but with the older family ancestors we don't usually
have a problem deciding what to use.

  We use only two acid free squares when we attach our photos.(That's
the same when scrapbooking our recent photos, too, as we know the
photos won't fall out of the sheet protectors). We also have acid free
clear photo corners that we use if we don't want to have the squares
stick to the photo. I have been using black background paper or a tan
color for most of my background sheets when doing my heritage albums.
I will use special scrapbooking paper for wedding photos. For my
heritage albums I do very simple pages and include the names of the
individuals and approximate date and location, if known. I've also seen
some lovely pages that should be hung on a wall and not hidden in a
book.

  There is no "real" way to do your albums. No moderator is going to
ask you if "that's your final answer, do you want to phone a friend or
take an audience poll" when you are deciding what to use and where to
place things. Just doing it will allow others the opportunity of
looking at an organized glimpse into the past in future years.

 Good Luck! Julie

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