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01
Dec

Anything but an Ordinary Family Picture

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To anyone else, this may be an ordinary picture. To me, this is the last picture I ever took of my grandma. A woman who battled cancer in her last days. She is the woman who taught me to wake up every morning singing! She had very little in life, but was as happy as a person who had it all. Now you may understand this isn’t “just” a picture. ~ shared by @deardreamlove

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30
Nov

Sometimes Simplicity Makes an Old Photo Beautiful

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My grandma hanging laundry sometime in the 1950s. Look at all those kids’ pajamas. She eventually had 8 kids with 3 sets of twins! ~shared by @stay_at_home_girlfriend

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29
Nov

A Treasure Trove of Old Family Photos

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My grandmother & my mother on the beach in North Carolina. I unearthed a thanksgiving treasure trove.

Reminds me of… “Ancient Kings” @brianandreas

My grandmother kept a box of old photos in her attic & we used to go up there on rainy days & sit on the floor in the dusty light & go through them & she would
tell about witches & broken
hearts & how we came from
royal blood & it was all there in the pictures, she said… #wewerehere #savefamilyphotos #familyphotos #familyphoto #analog #foundphotos #pictapgo_app #grandparents #grandmothers #grandmother #grandma #family #vintagephotos #filmisnotdead

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26
Nov

Learning about my family history means finding my roots

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These are the roots that anchor me. My maternal grandparents in the early 1930s. He was a minister, mortician, magician, medical doctor, cobbler, and carpenter. She could cook any and everything, and I still have her recipes.
They did it all during tough times and prospered. I never met him, but thankfully my parents provided me with those same values and strong work ethic. ~shared by @caduceus_maximus

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21
Nov

Country Visits and Old Family Photos

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My Grandma and Grandpa, Hillsdale, New York.
August of 1969.
Grandpa had a stroke a year or so earlier. We went to the country place in the summers. They were good to us. Grandpa was 67 and Grandma was 73.

shared by @julietruex

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20
Nov

Our Family Pictures are more valuable than gold

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This is an homage to my paternal grandmother & great grandparents, shown here in the Mineral Hill Nevada homestead & silver mining claim.
My grandmother, Mary Pearl, is shown wearing a big bow and plaid dress along with her other siblings.

Photographs help us remember our stories. Save them. ~ shared by @1860_1960

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14
Nov

The Woman Who Taught me the Value of Hospitality

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My grandmother, from whom I inherited my love of using entertaining to make people feel valued, special and accepted. ~ shared by @thinksplendid

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14
Nov

A Woman Named “Joe”

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This is my grandmother, Joe Renee Shuffield Niesen. She was named after her father, who I think wished she had been a boy.
He kind of got his wish. In 1938 she was 18 and tenacious. She convinced the men’s military marching band in Little Rock, Arkansas to let her audition.

She was so good they made her the soloist. As the band toured throughout the Midwest, she got her own private hotel room, along
with a chaperone. ~ shared by @andrewniesen

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12
Nov

How I met your mother

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This is my Mom & Dad with my Nana. This is the first day my Mom met her soon-to-be in-laws. My Mother always talks about how welcomed she felt on this day; she could just feel the love all around. My Nana was the most special person. Seattle. 1980. @shuangel ~ shared by @missmariss

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11
Nov

Vintage Wedding Photos

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My grandparents, Joseph Alcide LaCour and Sarah Lincoln LaCour, on their wedding day in Mississippi in 1946. They were married shortly after WWII and my father was born a few years later.

Today, we give thanks for the Veterans who sacrificed for us. Many gave their lives, and many returned home to start new families. They left a legacy that lives on today in us. ~ shared by @rachellacour

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