Bigger Families; Faces From the Past

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Another recent purchase from Ebay. Photographed by W.L. Evans, Brookeville, Indiana.

Those fancy dresses must have been a HUGE amount of work to make!

2 comments:

Mom of a Half Dozen Kids said...: What a neat blog! I love anything vintage and am just now getting into old photos because I am due with our 7th kiddo this fall. I love reading about or seeing other big families!; June 5, 2010 at 8:31 PM
Natalia said...: Thank you for your kind comments and for coming by! I don't find too many "kindred spirits" (in Anne-speak ;) ) regarding these pictures. So thanks! I wish I had time to post more regularly. I've subscribed to your blog.; June 8, 2010 at 2:26 PM

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Welcome!

Comments

....are most welcome (at least if they're friendly!). They won't post immediately because I've set them for moderation because if anyone were to comment on an old post I would miss it. (Someone found a distant family member through this site, and I didn't see it for a long time!)

Help?

If there is a photo of a larger family in your own family "archives" or found photo collection, I would love to have a scan or link with permission for inclusion. I will give credit, and would love to include stories, names, and details about the families if you agree. Just a picture is fine too.

By the same token, if you know of sites I don't have, or would be willing to search (or even send me the link to) online archives of your own state, province, or country, I would be delighted!

Where are they from?

Many were purchased from online auctions, while others are from permitted sources like downloadable Canadian Archives, and AncientFaces.com. I encourage my friends (or at least I wish I could) to buy them from Ebay and email a scan to me as I've already spent way too much money to justify! Also, occasionally I will scan a picture from a book or magazine in my own possession; I believe this would fall under the allowed quoting rules?

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Why this site?

My husband and I have a bigger family by today's standards, with seven children: five boys and now two girls, plus another little boy who passed away. I love old photos, and combining these interests led me to starting a site several years ago which was lost, and now this one.

Recently I realized there may be a reason I so particularly appreciate old photos, expecially of larger families....There has been a lot of genealogical recordkeeping and research among my extended and distant relatives, resulting in numerous family history books and genealogies (including many, many large families), with hardly a single photo of anyone! This missing part of our history may be a subconscious reason I attempt to compensate in this way.

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I hope to add to the site a list of fiction and nonfiction books about bigger families. Already many have been compiled from my little shelf full of them.

Bigger Families; Faces From the Past

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