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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: Hackstaple on Friday 21 April 06 00:02 BST (UK)
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Yesterday I received a photo that my cousin sent. It shows my mother, her younger sister, my grandmother, my mother's elder sister. :) :) :)
I was delighted with it and scanned it to another cousin in Canada. It replied to say that it is the only picture of his mother that he possesses. She is the pretty youngest child - died in Spain of cancer about 1975. The photo was taken about 1925.
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That's beautiful! I'd love to have something like that!
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What a wonderful find, and such a marvellous photo.
Well done Hack... its in marvellous condition
dead envious to have such a find...
Best wishes
Mo
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ozlady - I have found that every little bit of family history is hard-won and all the more wonderful when you score.
Mo - lovely to hear from you again. I still use your design, as you can see.
All - I apologize for the size of the photo - I really thought I had made it about a quarter of that size. My cousin Paul took the original to Boots and they made a superb copy for the huge sum of 75P. I didn't even know the service was available until yesterday. 8)
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How fantastic Hackstaple. It really is a beautiful photo.
I'm really pleased for you but a little green with envy ;)
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What a lovely photo Hack! :D
You must be so pleased!
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Wheeldon is a 'little green with envy' I'm totally green with envy. A beautiful photo Hackstaple.
Barbara 8)
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Brilliant Hack - what fabulous eyes - I hope you have inherited them!! ;D
Shows how you should find all your cousins - you never know what lies in the attic.
Cheers
Keith
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:o ::) :o - Hack's beautiful eyes.
;D ;D ;D
8)
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What a handsome family! Lucky you Hack - I'm green too!
Jill
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M'Lord Hack, ;D
that is a truly beautiful photograph. ;D ;D
I'm so pleased for you and a slight shade of green like the others. ;D
I think my family were allergic to cameras. To say that family photographs are scarce is a huge understatement. ::)
Can't even find a cousin - they all seem to have died... :o :o
Regards
Madame D'Arcy ;)
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To proud Hack !!
How wonderful for you ! - what a terrific photo !
Annie :) :) :)
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Thanks folks - I am on the trail of another couple of significant family photos. The odd thing is my wife's family. They were photo maniacs and we have some hundreds of photos going back to about 1910 or so. However, her paternal grandfather was a mystery man as were both of his wives. Her mother was adopted [back in about 1900] and that trail stops there. Many of the photos - taken in South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe are interesting, with well known people in the pictures. ;D
So I have very well documented ancestors with very few photos and she has mystery ancestors with zillions of them! :'(
The little girl in the photo became a cosmetics model pre-war, then a Canadian war-bride, wrote and produced a children's TV series, divorced and became an antique dealer, divorced again and devoted her life to charities, dying of cancer in Spain in about 1975. She fitted all of that into a life span of 55 years. :)
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The little girl in the photo became a cosmetics model pre-war, then a Canadian war-bride, wrote and produced a children's TV series, divorced and became an antique dealer, divorced again and devoted her life to charities, dying of cancer in Spain in about 1975. She fitted all of that into a life span of 55 years. :)
What a varied life!