Bigger Families; Faces From the Past

that arrived in the mail in the past week. I just love these. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do! (Please? I paid really good money for them! LOL) Here's one that I got to qualify for the MegaFamily board. Just a nice size family! The above photo says "Dr. Cosner, Dec. 1920" I love the chubby-cheeked toddlers, and the little one looks so cheeky with that grin, perhaps not quite as dignified as her doctor father!

Here are two more wonderful photos from Melanie. I love this first one particularly. Mom and youngest son are looking off to the side at some distraction. I would have been so annoyed if I were Ma! Melanie doesn't have names for this one. She only knows the people are from her mother's side of the family. Melanie writes: "This is a generation picture. I don't know the date, but I'm guessing it was taken in the late 1800's, early 1900's. Writing on the picture identifies each of the women, Grandma Schwartz, Dorothy, Great Grandma Johannes, Grandma Rosing. I am not sure if Grandma Schwartz and Grandma Rosing are both from the same generation (grandmothers of Dorothy?) or if Grandma Schwartz is the daughter of Grandma Rosing. I just know they are all from my mother's side of the family." My opinion, just going from the picture but not knowing the family, is that the women on either side are definitely related by blood, they look so muc...

Franz Zimmerman family, with the first 4 children - taken around 1905. (This is a guess based on little Erhard's birthdate and his approximate age in the picture.) The father Franz in this picture is the same Franz who is the son of Fritz Zimmerman in the second picture in the previous post from Melanie (the post just below this one). Franz was a farmer who lived in Wisconsin. Franz and Alma had another child, Roland, after this picture was taken. Both parents and all of the children were born in Wisconsin. Franz and Alma were married in 1896 in Wisconsin. Left to right Back: Walter (1901-1994), Franz (father 1869-1943), Herbert (1898-1928) Front: Hilda (spelled correctly 1899-1991), Erhard (1904-2006), Alma Hohenstern (mother 1877-1950) Franz and Alma Zimmerman's 5 children - taken about 1910 (This is a guess based on Roland's birthdate and his approximate age in the picture.) Left to right Back: Hilda (1899-1991), Walter (1901-1994) Center: Roland (19...

This is the same group Denise from New Zealand is from also. Melanie sent a number of wonderful pictures - and I am going to split them up just to make them last a little longer! These are really big pictures if you click on them, and definitely worth a look! Melanie also sent great family information - so if you're a family researcher who found us while doing research, welcome! Here is the August Justman family - taken around 1918 Left to right Back: Esther (1894-1978), Adela (1901-1996), George (1888-1928), Walter (1896-1975), Alvin (1890-1924) Front: Ella (1892-1953), Ernestine (nee Wendegatz, mother, 1866-1950), Malinda (spelled correctly, standing 1906-1992), Herbert (seated in very front 1908-1966), August (father 1856-1925), Paul (1887-1966) ***There were 2 other children who died before this picture was taken, Elmore (1898-1901) and Mathilde (spelled correctly 1904-1912). August was a farmer. He, Ernestine, and all the children were born in Wisconsin. Augus...

Denise writes: Only 12 children are in the photo. Two more are born later! I would guess that this was taken in the very late 1920s or very early 1930s. Best Family - New Zealand Standing L to R: Keith, Hazel, Lorna, Bill, Violet, Aubrey (Manny), Ivor Front L to R: Beris, Patricia, Clive (Father), John, Susan (Mother), Molly, Ray

This is my mom's family, about 1949. Mom is the little girl in the front. Her name is Margaret. Behind her are the three boys next oldest, Clarence, Rodney, and Wayne. In the back from left to right are Doreen, Laura (the oldest) Al (Alfred), and Eileen, and then is their mother, Minnie, holding baby Geraldine (Gerry), and then father George. My grandmother Minnie had MS, and passed away when my mother was 13 and Gerry was 9. A few short months later Gerry also died, from a heart problem never properly diagnosed. So my mom lost both her mother and her closest sister in the space of a few months. This is the only photo that I know of with the whole family together.

Here are some more great pictures from Shirley...I will soon be adding a link to her Ebay store in thanks for her many wonderful pictures here - please take a look at the Links section to the right and check out her items! Back reads, left to right: Ike Hill, Mrs Kite, Etta Hill, Mr & Mrs Howard of Marshall, Nell Nichols, Ebb Nichols & the 2 old folk in the front you know. Signed; Aunty Back reads "Good family portrait." Are these a family surnamed Good, or did the family just think this was a good quality portrait? Anyway, I love the faces in this one, just wish I could see them a little better. To me it looks like several older siblings, and their descendents. Back reads: Family Reunion, then looks like Kathryn Sloven The above is a Photo Postcard: Addressed to Mrs P.H. Zopf (Clara) , Waterloo, Iowa - Signed Louise and all. The above has no names on it, but to me it definitely looks like the mother and her daughters beside her, and granddaught...

in Colorado. Many thanks, Shirley - What a gem! Above taken: K. Sorensen & Co - Malmo - 57 Ostra Forstadsgatan Above: Written on back is Adrian Spoon Family - Nov 10, 1915; Left to right: Adrian - Mom - Floyd - Cleo - Faye - Adrain Above: This is The Hol(e)man Family - Norton, Kansas Leonard B) 11/30/1885 - M) Lola Elva Romine, B) 11/30/1885, dau of Allen Lewis Romine & Nancy Roun(d)tree Children: Elsie, Ruth, Burton, LeRoy, Alice, John, Sally & Allen Above: This is Dick's Family Taken From Island Brook, P.Q. - Newspaper article.

The above is the family of Anton and Mary Psenciks. It also says the name Emma H., perhaps to whom the photo was given.

From "Shirley" in Colorado From Jackie, "This is a photo of my Mother's family, the O'Sullivan's, taken in Windsor, Ontario in 1935. My Mother, Mary Frances, in the foreground, was the youngest of 12 (one died as an infant/small child). My Mom was about 12 years old at the time of this picture. From Canadian Archive: Horace Brown family: George, 11, Will, 8, Carrie, 6, Clarence, 3, Alex, 9, Morton, 13. Dad, 47, Ma, 44.