My ex-hubby sent this photo with an email saying he's scanning old photos from a book where many are suck together. He says he'll send more, but is planning to make a book (paper) for each of the family members (our two sons and ourselves.)
I immediately knew that the only place we had possibly stood at a wheel on a ship was the Constitution. I didn't have any memory of the photo, so it must have been given to someone else in the family. It was an 8x10 size, and my ex sent me the full size in the email. A very big document!
We both do ancestry work these days in a real time similarity. We both sit at computers 500 or so miles away from each other. In infrequent emails we do not speak of our current thoughts. Except a bit about the pandemic, and his having moved into a senior apartment after his wife's death last year. I share about my life a bit I guess. He doesn't ask.
OK, that's the status of our lives. You, my blog friends know me better at this point in my life than he does.
And here's the more recent photo of me. Would anyone recognize the younger me from this photo?
Today's quote:
“The mind unconsciously loves problems because they give you an identity of sorts.” Eckert Tolle
Sometimes I think it would be nice to rewind to the past, at other times not so much. I don't do any ancestry work as I have a cousin who takes care of that and keeps me informed of her progress.
ReplyDeleteI am the ancestry person for my immediate family, my ex does his family. I have a cousin who is in the DAR and did a family tree for our parents, but mine is a bit different than hers. She is positive the DAR would have given correct information. I disagree. Oh well, that's life!
DeleteYou have changed a lot. Some people don’t change so much. When JJ saw a baby pic, he knew immediately that it was grandma. When he looked at mine and then at me now, he just shook his head sadly. 😸
ReplyDeleteYou are so right...adding about 50 pounds to my bones really changed my look. Having babies also contributed to the last 40 years...how I look, not having babies for 40 years!
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ReplyDeleteI see you in the younger you photo. The ancestry work can be addicting, it is hard to stop.
Take care, enjoy your weekend!
I love spending rainy or snowy days on ancestry! I have too many other things happening in life to do it often. Hope you enjoy whatever snow may come your way.
Delete...each year my wife makes books of photo for our three children. She is the official family photographer.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear that someone is collecting photos as the children mature. They will be glad of them probably when they're my age!
DeleteThe smile is the same! Some things never change.
ReplyDeleteI think that's wishful thinking. But I'm glad a few features might still be the same. I laugh when TV and movies have people's faces aged so they can identify them older. It all depends upon life's choices along the way!
DeleteI think I do see the younger you in that photo. It's lovely that you ex is sending you pics like this.
ReplyDeleteMy eyes are obviously the same, but the skin around them, not so much! I'm glad we can share this as part of our current lives, remembering how we were when together!
DeleteBarbara, I see the same sweet smile in your present face that you had years ago. It must have been a nice surprise to get this photo in the mail. I can not do much genealogy for my family as family records are scarce but doing our DNA helped a bit as I found out who was my fraternal great grandmother that way form another DNA relative who contacted me with information. Her Great Grandmother and mine were sisters!!
ReplyDeleteThat's indeed a good use of genealogy, to find out who our ancestors actually were. I have a great grandfather from Germany who doesn't seem to have any family. So our family tree has what's called a brick wall with him.
DeleteI can recognize the younger you in your smile. I love looking at old photos even if I don't know the people. It's a wonderful journey in to the past.
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, I sure don't see my smile as the same at all, but you and those other readers must see something! I also enjoy looking at a lot of old photos, and will keep many on my tree that are cousins pretty far removed.
DeleteTime flies, doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteIt must indeed!
DeleteThere is a resemblance in your smile. What a task to be scanning photos. I'll let the daughters go through the albums and take out what they want. Those were enough work through the years.
ReplyDeleteI've already sent many photos of my children (now all adults) in their own albums. But this is the last vestige of any possibility of using these old ones. So they aren't even the best taken at the time. I threw away the very nice album last week...it has weird pages with lots and lots of holes, so I was pretty sure I'd never find any new ones.
Delete"Women at the wheel" is a really clever connection, I think! I'd not have recognized you at first glance comparing those two photos, but looking a bit closer I think one can see it. This is something I've been struggling with a lot with anonymous and undated old family photos... :)
ReplyDeleteI haven't got any more old family photos...having digitalized them a few years ago. But then there are some from my ex's album. But I'll leave those to him to figure out. I'm bogged down in transferring people on my Ancestry trees into just one tree. I have to do it one by one, then send each graphic file the same way.
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ReplyDeleteTwo lovely photographs, Barbara, though I doubt if I would have collected them as the same person. Thank you for sharing your family circumstances, and I too,liked your apt description of Woman at the Wheel.
ReplyDeleteI like your title but it occurs to me that today's younger generation would not understand the term "rewind", since no one needs to do that with modern audio or video. It happens that this afternoon while clearing out junk from my workshop, I found an old cassette tape of a concert I played 34 years ago. I wasn't sure the boombox in my workshop would play it, but with just a little rewinding I was suddenly listening to my own voice from the past introducing the music my group was about to play. It brought back a fond memory of friends that I've not thought about for a very long time. I've saved the tape. I only wish life had a fast-forward button too.
ReplyDeleteYes, the resemblance is there between the two photos. It's too bad the happiness showing in the first photo didn't last, but life is a gamble. Sometimes it works out as you would wish, and sometimes it doesn't. But it's nice he sent you the photo.
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