Travel with me through time to remember days gone by, that myriad of memories locked in the backs of our minds, to see long ago faces and remember the good old days.
Time is irrelevant here… the memories go back as far as you
can remember… only a few short months or many, many years. It makes no
difference when it was, just that we recall, recollect and pass the memories
along to those who form the newest generations and beyond.
Isn’t amazing how running across an old photo can trigger so
many life experiences?
And to question… just who are those people in those photos from
1900 and before and since? (Remember to label your photos… if we’re not here
no one will know… just like those of us who just don’t know… who are they?)
It doesn’t matter how you preserve your memories… only that
you do…
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Pictured
front, l to r: Captains Steven, Joseph and Antoine Rose.
Pictured back,
l to r: Captains William, Edward and Charles Rose.
This copy of an original tintype was
sent to me from a cousin I found about 15 years ago through Ancestry.com. Our
relatives were two of the brothers above... William and Charles to be exact. It
was one of the first of many photos that I was given or sent over the years and
one I'm very proud to have ... and be able to name. There was a seventh son,
Joseph, born in 1845, who didn't survive. In a naming practice I've found in
our French families, when an infant dies, a child later born to the family is
given the same name. How confusing! There were also six girls born to the
parents.
The men in the family were captains on the Great Lakes out of the Anchorville area of Michigan. |
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