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[leonardo]

MGM, date and place unknown. She appears to be a teen.

[CelticGerman]

great great grandmother in Hamburg 1909, born 1860 in Husum/Northfrisia

[ph2ter]

My great-grandfather 1878:

[CelticGerman]

maternal grandma working (period 1927-1933)

[JonikW]

Maternal great grandfather Jones. This is the only surviving pic of him and I only got it after DNA matching a long lost first cousin of my late mum who had a copy. My Welsh miner great grandfather worked in the pits for 40 years, barely seeing daylight with the long shifts they worked for pitiful wages. But he obviously took a pride in his appearance. His son, my grandfather, never went anywhere without his suit and trilby hat either.

[JonikW]

And my paternal grandmother in Bristol in the 1930s (pictured on the left). She died in her 90s and was one of the main influences on my life. She was a Lewis from Wales on one side and from a Dorset family on the other. I owe her so much in many different ways.

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[rmstevens2]

Here's a photo of one of my maternal great grandmothers, Nora Lancaster (married name Morris), with her kids and a teenaged niece (at her left). The little blond baby on her lap is my maternal grandmother, Lela Ollie Morris. 

Nora Lancaster is also my most distant known mtDNA ancestor. I haven't been able to get beyond her on that line.

I don't know the name of the female child to my great grandmother's right because she apparently was born and died in between censuses. She is not named in the 1900 U.S. census and was dead by the 1910 U.S. census, because it says my great grandmother had five children, but only four were living. No girl child is named in the 1910 census of the right age to have been her. The other two children were born after this photo was taken, and one of them was a boy.

[rmstevens2]

Okay, here's another: one of my paternal second great grandfathers, Captain John Holmes, Quitman Guards, Company E, 16th Mississippi Infantry, Army of Northern Virginia, CSA. That means he was a captain in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He began as an enlisted private. He was the father of my paternal great grandmother, Jonnie Taylor Holmes.

Captain John Holmes served in every major engagement in which Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was involved, including Gettysburg, except First Manassas (Bull Run), until he was captured near Petersburg, Virginia, during the battle for the Weldon Railroad in 1864. He was sent to the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC, and then transferred to the prison for officers at Fort Delaware. He was part of Stonewall Jackson's "Foot Cavalry" during Jackson's Valley Campaign in the spring of 1862.

On my mother's side they fought for the Union. I guess it's a good thing they didn't run into each other back then.

[Gray Fox]

First is of my maternal great Aunt. Second is of my great, great Grandmother

[Gray Fox]

First pic is my maternal great, great grandparents. Second is my maternal great, Grandfather on the left.

[Gray Fox]

Great Grandfather and Great Grandmother in both pictures along with siblings and children. They played Bluegrass and Gospel. We used to have a live bluegrass band play at our family reunions when I was very young. Sadly the tradition died with that generation. My maternal grandmother passed from Alzheimer's a few years ago and one of the few times she could speak coherently was while she was recalling her parents getting together to play music. Very grateful for these photos.

[leonardo]

My great grandfather, born in Italy. He was a stone mason and took years of his life to make this grotto, only to have have it torn down a few years later by the city in the name of redevelopment.

[Gray Fox]

My great grandfather, born in Italy. He was a stone mason and took years of his life to make this grotto, only to have have it torn down a few years later by the city in the name of redevelopment.

I work with a guy whose ancestors were Italian stone masons. Surname Loberteni who ended up in Tennessee.

[Valkyrie]

My Maternal Grandmother 

[Valkyrie]

My Maternal Grandmother's Mother (1884-1960).