Bigger Families; Faces From the Past

See several posts ago for explanation of the source. Ethyl, Fred, Chester, Melvin and Fern Dollison Family by Christmas tree Funny! Family in front of small house Frank Hiesel and family outside Hiesel Hotel, Papillion, Nebraska Lone and Ione Smith family in front of sod home

These are some more pictures from my CD. Not for commercial use. The following two are not exactly clear who is related to whom, but they are interesting enough that I posted them anyway. Family and visiting uncle? Family with visiting aunt? Well, it's a great picture anyway. Eastern Europeans?

more great pictures from "Nebraska Memories." They are worth the click! Curtis Ball family D. A. (Ad) and Elizabeth Minnick family Doctor Brener family Charles Walter family, extended Ezra and Mary Stephens and family

I love looking at these amazing pictures of the same family group, and trying to figure out who are brothers and sisters. Wonderful character pictures of a lifetime of hard work and simplicity. The pictures are from my CD that I mentioned in a recent post.

Here are some links to some absolutely beautiful photos of larger families. I can't post the pictures as they are copyright, but they are worth clicking on the links! Most of them include a lot of family history too, which is wonderful! I wish I could make tiny thumbnails to give a taste of them but I don't know how. Bernard Soester family Charles Dallegge family Carl Hickstein family Clara Zeilinger family, four generations Claus Martens and family

This is from the CD mentioned several posts ago. Going from facial similarities, I believe many to most of these are siblings.

Here are more pictures from my CD. There's no information about who the people are. Click on the pictures to see them in more detail.

As always, if the photo is from Ancient Faces, go to the link there if you are looking for more information as I do not have any! Thank you. The following photo is from http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/photo/406549 L-R, Mollie Elizabthe Louthan Thomas, Orlando Robert Louthan, John Warner Louthan, Lenora Collins Louthan, Myrtle Louthan Moore Smith, Goldie Louthan Groathouse. These are the children that were still living in 1917. Others had passed on. The following picture is from http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/photo/406562 Four Sawyers brothers, taken in Oklahoma: Name: Birthdate: George M. Sawyers 1869 Benjamin Terry Sawyers ca. 1875 Fount Sawyers ca. 1881 Lewis Alvin Sawyers Nov 1, 1883

As always, if the photo is from Ancient Faces, go to the link there if you are looking for more information as I do not have any! Thank you. This one is from http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/photo/406572 It's a photo of John Binkley, his wife, Mary Elizabeth Henson Binkley, and their family. Center back is Barney Rice Binkley. The 2 babies and the 2 young girls are John and Mary's grandchildren. This leaves me to count 7 siblings in this photo. The following photo is of the Carl and Clarabel Tong family, taken 1965. from https://www.ancientfaces.com/photo/1965-carl-clarabel-family/408159 Rear: Debra, Judith, Dail Front: Estella, Clarabel, Carl with Patricia The following photo is from http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/photo/408160 This is the Milton & Lucinda Chapman family. I believe the interpretation of the writing on the back would be that the children's names are Myrtle (married name Cummings), William, Cyrus, & Oscar. The photo was t...

These two pictures are from my CD. So there are no names or other information. The first looks like a family of 11 children, and the second one of 9-10.

Click the pictures to see them bigger. These photos are from the Ancient Faces website, so as always when the photo is from there, if you would like more information, please go to the link and contact the contributor there. I do not have contact with them, nor do I know any more about the families, or research them. The first picture is found at http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/photo/408519 This is the William Harvey McMichen family, including his mother Jane Armstrong McMichen, wife Sarah Caroline and 10 of their 11 children. According to the contributor to the Ancient Faces site, this should be their home in Georgia. Here is the Gillespie family, from Ancient Faces website, at http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/photo/408509 For names see the photo itself, or go to the link. This is the Longo family, from http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/photo/408346 The photo is not high quality so don't bother clicking on it. They are: Top row, from left to right: Nicola, Donat...

More photos from my CD The children above look kind of like a posed 1-room school group, but so many of them look VERY alike! The boys in overalls must be twins and a brother, and most of the others look so alike as to be siblings to them also.

These photos are from a CD collection of photos that I purchased. "There are no commercial rights given or implied with this product. This CD cannot be copied or resold, and must be used solely for personal use." So don't use the pictures for commercial use, please!

Up until my last child, I had one lone girl among the boys, too, though I don' t pretend that we had the proportions of the Burns family. The photo is from http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/photo/406809 (See note on -> side of blog about this site. ) There's no more information about the family on the site, but the submitter was a Burns. Click on the photo to see it larger.

This is the M. Gordon & Georgia A. Power family taken in 1906. See http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/photo/406227 for source. Back row: Noah Clifford, Robert (Bob), Dillard (Dill) Middle row: Martha Gordon Power, and Georgia Alice Trotter Power Front row: Garnett G., Otha, and Odessa

This is mother Anna Marie (or Mary Anna) and her children. For more details on family history and names, go to the source at http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/photo/375325

These eight beautiful children are : Back: Mary Ellen, Charles F., Jemima Elizabeth, and Bessie G. Front: Leah Grace, Chalmer Edward, Clendon, and Lydia C. They are the children of Andrew & Jemimah (Schoch) Kleinknight. Photo from http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/photo/406407

I just LOVE this! Through Google, I found a business who sells video clips to advertisers etc for big money, but you can see short previews. Here is a 70-second clip of the Peerbolte family. "In 1929, the Peerbolte family of Illinois claimed the world record for the largest family of 16 children. " This is just a thumbnail. Click on the link below to go to the page where you can see the video clip. http://www.efootage.com/stock-footage/54612/AmericaAmericanAmericansUSUSUnitedStatesSouth Make sure you see the part where they get out of their "18-seater limousine" which would be a regular-sized car now, only it fits all 18 as no doubt they didn't have the seating regulations we have now. It looks like an optical illusion to see them all file out of it one by one!

This is the Nitsche family "with their first 8 children." They had 7 more after. For the source, and the names, see http://www.oocities.com/mcarthrs/Nitschejacobsen.htm I noted that three of the 15 children died in infancy, and two of them were in the first eight born to this family. So the photo would really be of the oldest eight children rather than the first eight. The other baby who died was a twin; his surviving twin lived until early adulthood. All the others married. Having lost a baby boy at birth myself, I can really sympathize with the heartbreak of these losses, though I know my experience of it would have been very different in many other ways.

From the Stables family history website, at: http://www.stableshistory.co.uk/darfield.htm The picture above shows Charles and Mary Ann Podmore's (née Stables) family and was taken around 1901. The people shown are: Back Row (Left-to-Right): Elizabeth Podmore, Charles Podmore, Ethel Podmore, James William Podmore, Betsy Miriam Podmore. Middle Row (Left-to-Right): Lilian Podmore, Mary Ann Podmore (née Stables), John Henry Bernard Podmore, Florence Podmore, Charles Podmore. Front Row (Left-to-Right): Doris Podmore (on knee), Edith Hilda Podmore (on floor). Ethel, Elizabeth, James William and Charles Jnr were Mary Ann's step-children from Charles's previous marriage to Sarah Richardson Townend. The others were her own children.

from http://www.tradersbend.com/lnl/Newsletters/LNLV1N3.html Quote: "Luke William Lobsinger Family: Luke was one of the sons of Joseph L. Lobsinger who wasn't involved in the Lobsinger Foundry in Mildmay, Ontario. He left home in 1913 and moved to Lake Worth, FL., where he raised his family. Luke was an artist, house painter and interior decorator. Some of his murals are preserved today in homes and apartments in Lake Worth. Shown are, from left, Luke, Jr., Luke, Sr., Phillip A., Catherine, Margaret Ann, wife Mary Jane Ross, and John Ross. Barbara Jane had not yet arrived when this picture was taken."

A visitor sent me some photos. There is no family information whatsoever, and I don't know where the person got the photos.