Tag: Photographs

I purchased these photographs at Antique Warehouse Mall in January 2016 and did the same thing as my previous post, I posted them on Ancestry.com. I researched and created a family tree for the Mayor family, then posted these photos. On 13 October 2019, I received a message on Ancestry from a relative asking about […]

I purchased this batch of photographs at Antique Warehouse Mall in February 2017. This return is a bit different than the others. I photographed and posted all the images to a family tree on Ancestry.com for anyone that may be searching for family since I wasn’t able to track anyone down myself. A year later, […]

I purchased Bucky’s 1950s scrapbooks, photos, and school papers from Antique Warehouse in mid-2015 with the intent to repair and then research to return, but since it was so large, it ended up being put away in a suitcase until March 2016.   When I finished repairing the scrapbook last month, I then used Ancestry.com […]

Since early summer, I have been collecting photographs from Antique Warehouse that once belonged to a family with the surname Gleason (many photos are about or over 100 years old). Since they are all spread out over a large family tree, and I have an Ancestry.com subscription, I decided to scan them all at a […]

I found this large photo album at an antique shop a year or two ago at a thrift shop called City Thrift. It sat in my living room along with a bunch of other old photo albums I had and I had forgotten that it had photos in it as the others were all empty. […]

This is a cabinet card photograph, circa 1890, that I believe I picked up at at Sheffield Antique Mall a few years ago. I used Ancestry.com, and most likely an obituary, to discover that the baby, Charles, had a living grandson in Memphis, Tennessee. I contacted the grandson, John, in 18 March 2015 via Facebook. […]

I picked these photos up, along with a bunch of others (including the photo of Michael and Nancy), at Town Square Antique Mall in Collierville, Tennessee on 1 July 2015.  They are both of the same teenaged boy named Harold. The small photo was taken in 1930, when he was a sophomore, and the larger […]

I found this adorable snapshot of two children, siblings Michael and Nancy, at Town Square Antique Mall in Collierville, Tennessee on 1 July 2015. The photograph is dated “July 1939”. I used Ancestry.com to find relatives and was able to find a cousin of theirs on 3 July 2015. I discovered that the children grew […]

I got these papers, along with a bunch of others not belonging to Juanita, at Antique Warehouse a few months ago.  They came in a wonderful old suitcase which I didn’t take the time to go through until just last week. Juanita got married at the end of 1945, but they were still celebrating into […]

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 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 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 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 […]

I found a batch of childhood photos belonging to a bother and sister that lived in West Memphis, Arkansas.  The photos were in a junky shop called Second Time Around Flea Market. I found out that the boy Chris, now grown, still lived in West Memphis, Arkansas, so I sent him a letter with color […]

These are family photos that I had scanned for various relatives across the country that were related to a little family with the surname Quinby who lived in Teaneck, New Jersey beginning in the 1910s.  This is a small selection of the photographs that I scanned and sent to their descendants. I also split up […]

I purchased these old cabinet card photographs on Etsy.com in 2013. After doing some research on Ancestry.com, I discovered these four adorable siblings were Mildred Geneva (1888-1988), Francis Herbert (1891-1965), Sidney Carl Joseph (1890-1972), and Stella Madeline (1893-1957) Stadvold of Fosston, Minnesota. Aren’t they adorable?! After exchanging messages with Francis Stadsvold’s great-grandson on Ancestry, I […]

This is a photo of Harold. I bought his photo at Sheffield Antique Mall. When I researched his name on Ancestry.com, I noticed that the photo scanned to the website was the exact same photograph, creases, rips, and all!!! I contacted the owner, Donna, of the family tree and the only explanation we could come up […]

I discovered someone on eBay was selling photos from a photo album with identified photographs. I purchased many of them with the intent of returning them. 287 photographs in all. Someone was missing their childhood! I was able to gather enough information from the photographs and found Kenny, now known as Kenneth, on Facebook. Unfortunately, […]

Little Henry was born at home in San Francisco in 1918 and his parents documented his life in photos. There were many photographs of Henry as a small child, far more than those shown below, plus a photo of Henry as a young teen then later in the military.  Between his time in the military […]

These two children are Joseph Patrick (1898-1973) and Maria (b. Aug 1896) Rigali.  My mom gave me this photo as a gift, I believe she had purchased it at an antique shop while on a trip to Iowa.  It’s a very delicate photo. I did some research on the family, but could not find very […]