Month: January 2015

I found this wedding album at Mid-South Outlet in their boutique section in January 2015. I thought it was such a beautiful album and it was so sad that it had somehow ended up in a thrift shop. I found their granddaughter, Kaydee, almost right away on Facebook that evening and sent her a message.  […]

I believe I acquired this circa 1905 cabinet card of Orva and Hershel Lewis from Sheffield Antique Mall in the mid-2000s. Upon researching the names years later, I came across the history page of the old website of Jack Pirtle’s Chicken. Young Orva would grow up to marry Jack Pirtle and the two of them […]

I found Jimmy Tual‘s Cub Scout Graduation certificate at Second Time Around Flea Market. I can’t remember when I found it, because I kept it for quite a while. I thought it was cute and I like Cub/Boy Scout items. In December 2014, I decided to look up the names on the certificate. I was […]

I found a large batch of photographs, in a water damaged album, in the summer of 2014 that belonged a family with a baby born in the mid-1980s named Bobby. They were from Second Time Around Flea Market. I almost gave up looking for him, because I kept running into dead ends.  I put them […]

I think I came across this tiny baby book at Antique Warehouse in 2012 or 2013.  I researched the parents’ names in the book using Ancestry.com in early 2014. For some odd reason, the mother had never written the baby’s name in the book, but I was able to find out that it was Norma […]

I found this large beautiful old framed photograph, circa 1910, at a Goodwill store in Collierville, Tennessee. An usual place to find actual photographs of people. It had info written on the back that I couldn’t quite make out, but I thought I would take it home and give it a try. It’s a great […]

I found this beautiful little marriage book at a junky shop called Second Time Around Flea Market.  It belonged to a couple named Joseph and Mary Ella who were married on the 22 November 1940. Using a combination of Ancestry.com and FindAGrave.com, I was able to find Joseph’s stepdaughter, Michelle, on Facebook. “Oh my goodness. […]

I found a batch of childhood photos belonging to a bother and sister that lived in West Memphis, Arkansas back in July 2014. The photos were in a junky shop called Second Time Around Flea Market. Upon returning in January of 2015, I found three more photographs that I believed to belong to Chris. It […]