For That Time You Become Totally Bored And Have Nothing Better To Do

[bri]

These are some very old family pictures I was helping my mom with. A few are over 100 years old. Thought I would share for their historical interest.

These are all pictures of my Great Grandfather, Jess, who was born in 1886. The one picture includes one of his brothers.





The 3 Sisters (Sorry, Jako, this is the best I could do for your spank bank. People were so severe looking back then.)

Mary, Esther, and Helen



Esther was my Great Grandmother and married to Jess. Her sister, Mary, was married to one of Jess's brothers.





Some of the kids

Their 3 oldest children, Raymond, Harold, and Glen. Raymond had a twin brother, Ralph who I believe was stillborn.

Their oldest daughter, Ruby, (my Grandma, who died in her 30s when giving birth to my mom.)

 

[bri]

Straight out of The Grapes of Wrath (Some extended relatives)

Misc Family

My Great Grandpa Jess with his brother and father (my Great Great Grandfather)

His brother in St Louis

Two of their sons when they were older

Picture from WWI My great Grandpa's brother

 

[supraman]

Thats actually pretty cool bri

 

[winos5]

Pretty cool.



I've been kicking myself for years since my grandmother died. She had several albums of family pictures stored in the actic that date as far back as the civil war including some tintype and ferrotype photos. My Mom and Dad offered them to me, but at the time I declined. I know they kept some(the ones they could identify by name)but the rest either sold at auction or were thrown away. I've regretted that decision as I've gotten older.

 

[Tater]

Very cool pics Bri.

I love seeing those oldies.

 

[BigPete]

I can't see the photos on this computer at work, but that is cool that you are interested in this and helping your mom out.



I have been on an extensive geneology project to map out my family tree for about three years now. I recently came into some pictures of my Straube family side and it helped connect faces to names.



I have a tree set up on Ancestry.com and depending on my time and energy I renew the account to continue searching for more information. I have mapped back everyone for at least 4 generations and some parts of the family back into the 1500s. My great uncle actually did most of that work taking my maternal grandmother's Walker family back past colonial america. I have taken the Straube side back into when they immagrated from Germany in the late 1850s and just corrected a long told history of the man that brought them here. It was said that he was shot in his garden in Prussia during the feudal wars and his widow brought her two kids here to escape. In fact, the husband and wife moved here with their 4 kids and settled in St. Louis. He served in the civil war for the union and enlisted at the St. Louis Armory, where I work today! How cool is that!!!

 

[winos5]

I can't see the photos on this computer at work, but that is cool that you are interested in this and helping your mom out.



I have been on an extensive geneology project to map out my family tree for about three years now. I recently came into some pictures of my Straube family side and it helped connect faces to names.



I have a tree set up on Ancestry.com and depending on my time and energy I renew the account to continue searching for more information. I have mapped back everyone for at least 4 generations and some parts of the family back into the 1500s. My great uncle actually did most of that work taking my maternal grandmother's Walker family back past colonial america. I have taken the Straube side back into when they immagrated from Germany in the late 1850s and just corrected a long told history of the man that brought them here. It was said that he was shot in his garden in Prussia during the feudal wars and his widow brought her two kids here to escape. In fact, the husband and wife moved here with their 4 kids and settled in St. Louis. He served in the civil war for the union and enlisted at the St. Louis Armory, where I work today! How cool is that!!!

How expensive is Ancestry.com? I've been wanting to do that but, balking at the money side of it.

 

[Tater]

How expensive is Ancestry.com? I've been wanting to do that but, balking at the money side of it.

You just beat me by asking this. Was thinking the same thing here too.

 

[bri]

I could add a lot of commentary about them, but didn't think anyone would be interested.

 

[jakobeast]

Being Mormon, my pops has traced our families history way back. I'm talking about all the way back to about the 6th Century. I am related to Charlemagne somehow. Also found out that my folks share an uncle. That explains a lot.



It is cool to see where you came from.

 

[bri]

There is another picture my mom can't find of my Great Grandma as a little girl with her family. She couldn't have been more than 5 or 6 in the picture so it would have to have been taken in about 1899 or 1900 since she was born in 1894. If she finds it, I will post it later.

 

[mikita's helmet]

How expensive is Ancestry.com? I've been wanting to do that but, balking at the money side of it.

I believe there's a short trial period that's free. At least I hope my wife didn't pay to find out that her father, who'd always thought he was the offspring of German Catholics, may actually have a Russian Jewish background. Sure threw him for a loop.

 

[sth]

Those pictures are awesome Bri. Very cool to see stuff from those days. Very interesting.

 

[bri]

I just wanted to add a little story about my Great Grandma, Esther, that my mom told me. As I mentioned previously my mom's mother died when she was born so as a result her grandparents helped to raise her and her brother while their dad worked. When my mom was about 4 her grandma was diagnosed with cancer of the mouth that the doctors said was caused by a lipstick that she used. (Can you imagine the lawsuits for that today?) That would have been about 1957 or 58. She had to go to a hospital in Chicago and was gone for several months for surgery and recovery. When she came home she couldn't talk because they had removed part of her tongue. She was extremely self conscious about her appearance which had changed, but my mom said she never noticed cause it was just grandma to her. In her mind the scars and disfigurement didn't exist. She was a strong woman and learned to talk and to eat again. Doctors told her she was lucky she had my mom and uncle to care for because it made her have to do things and not give up. She had to learn to talk to yell at them cause they were always fighting. She recovered from that cancer and had no re-occurrences and lived another 25 years which seemed like a miracle for that time.

 

[BigPete]

Ancestry.com has several pricing structures depending on the information you want to access and the length of time you want that access. As Mikita said it is ~$20 for one month of US records access that they have scanned and made searchable from sources such as SS death index, birth and death records from most of the states, census records going back to 1860 for just about every decade except those lost in a fire years ago, military draft cards from multiple wars, and others.



At times I have used the free trial period (several times in fact), but I have also used monthly renewals as well as one or two yearly accesses. I have been doing this for about 4 years now.



It takes a while to get proficient at searching and if there are mistakes in census records (grammitical, spelling, milabled relationships) then it can be challenging. My great great great grandfater for instance was named Heinrich Jakub Straube on many official records, but some census records listed him as Jacob Straube and even Jacob Stube on another.



But again, I was able to map out over 200 members of my family tree from my parents to their parents and siblings, to their parents, and so on. I also have connected with a cousin my age that I never knew about and who is removed from me 4 times.



I highly recommend you go to the site and check it out. It is a great hobby at a reasonable cost.

 

[bri]

So many of the old records are inaccurate. My mom has 3 birth certificates from her dad and 2 of his brothers and they all list something different as the mother's maiden name. They came from Poland so I am not sure what the maiden name was. What seems a little strange is that I think these birth certificates were all done at the same time. I think back then a lot of people had their kids at home and never even had birth certificates. They had to have then done later in life when they were needed for something. If they were, in fact done at the same time, I don't understand how they got different maiden names.

 

[sth]

So many of the old records are inaccurate. My mom has 3 birth certificates from her dad and 2 of his brothers and they all list something different as the mother's maiden name. They came from Poland so I am not sure what the maiden name was. What seems a little strange is that I think these birth certificates were all done at the same time. I think back then a lot of people had their kids at home and never even had birth certificates. They had to have then done later in life when they were needed for something. If they were, in fact done at the same time, I don't understand how they got different maiden names.

Well when your relatives came to America they would be forced to give their name when they arrived at various locations. And the people taking down the information would write whatever they thought they heard. So they would get different names. My ancestors in Ireland had their named changed to an English version when surveys were done by the British in Ireland.

 

[bri]

Well when your relatives came to America they would be forced to give their name when they arrived at various locations. And the people taking down the information would write whatever they thought they heard. So they would get different names. My ancestors in Ireland had their named changed to an English version when surveys were done by the British in Ireland.

They were born in the US. Some of the older children may have been born in Poland.