Post a photo of one of your ancestors. Here is my mom on the beach in Nova Scotia. I love it!

[applegrove]

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[Taverner]

1. No offense, but your mom was a hottie!

[applegrove]

3. No offense taken.

[hifiguy]

2. She looks more than a little like the young

Elizabeth Taylor.

[frogmarch]

4. Beautiful! Your mom, the ocean, the

land scenery. In that order. Lovely picture all the way around.

My dad is the one sitting on the log. The other boy was a friend of his. The picture was taken in the early 1920s when my dad was in his teens.



The picture below is of my birth mother in India, who died when I was about 2 weeks old. In the photo, which was taken before she was married, she is sitting on her bike with her dog.

[applegrove]

6. I'm trying to think who your dad looks like. Brad Pitt? Somebody. I can't quite place it. What a

hunk. So sorry you never got a chance to meet your mom. What a feminist she must have been to be driving around on a bike in that day and age.

[frogmarch]

20. My mother's nickname was

"Speedy," I was told by her family. She loved driving fast cars and motorcycles. She was the only woman in her family who knew how to drive.

I too think my dad was good looking. I haven't seen any movie stars who I think resembles him, but my sisters and I and our step-mom all agreed that in every way except looks, he was very much like Atticus Finch as portrayed by Gregory Peck in the movie To Kill a Mockingbird. Dad died at age 52, when I was 15. I still miss him.

A crop of him in his high school football picture:

[applegrove]

21. Aw. That is so tough you lost your parents too young.

[Arugula Latte]

58. A bit of Matt Damon, maybe?

[bluesbassman]

5. My Great^10 Uncle Earl.

That's a lovely picture BTW applegrove. Your mom's lovely and looks very happy there.

[pipi_k]

10. Actually your Uncle Earl

looks a lot like an ancestor a cousin and I have named "Pierre the one-celled Frenchman"

The resemblance is amazing...

[AsahinaKimi]

7. Not A photo.. more like a painting...

Saburo Asahina

[bluesbassman]

8. That's awesome Kimi!

How did you find this?

[AsahinaKimi]

14. Many paintings are on line..

Some from Japanese museums ...This came to attention to me, via my father who recieved an email.

[applegrove]

9. Ancestor in Art! That is so cool.

[AsahinaKimi]

16. totemo Kakkoii ne

"totally cool!"

[hifiguy]

46. He looks like a man one would not trifle with

and that you'd want to have on your side when something hit the fan - a badass, IOW.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. This guy, my great x 4(?) grandfather.

1785-1847, photograph taken in Belfast, probably a daguerrotype.

[applegrove]

17. I did not know they could take photos that far back. Amazing!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. The daguerrotype was invented in the 1830s

and there were some earlier chemical processes in the 1820s.

[grasswire]

53. that doesn't look like a daguerreotype

The image in a dag is on a glass plate. This appears to be on paper.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

61. It's an old paper copy of the original that got folded.

Not sure where the original is - I think my uncle has it. It might also have been a calotype, but the paper one shown is a copy of whatever it is.

[pipi_k]

12. This is

My great uncle, Hector Auclair, whom I never knew.

He looks like he might have been a bit of a lady's man.

We share the same birthday (October 20)





And his sister, Edna...my dad's mom. I never knew her, either. She did not have an easy life. I really wish I could have known her.

[monmouth]

42. Great Uncle Hector could have been a stand-in for Rudolph Valentino. Handsome..n/t

[Bertha Venation]

13. That's a lovely photograph.

[Ptah]

15. Spring, 1917.

Far right, my paternal grandfather, woman next to the baby, my paternal grandmother.



P.S. Your mom looks happy in that picture, applegrove.
Thanks for sharing.

[grasswire]

54. wow...where was that taken?

It's a striking image.

[Ptah]

55. Montana, east of the Rockies about eighty miles.

[grasswire]

57. on the highline?

or farther south?

[Ptah]

60. Between the high line and Great Falls, in Pondera County, on a homestead.

[grasswire]

63. my grandparents homesteaded on the other side of the border

In the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan.

[Brother Buzz]

19. Grandpa caught up in a jingoistic moment at the onset of the Spanish-American War

[MrScorpio]

22. Here's mine. My mom is seated on the far right

[applegrove]

23. Gorgeous. My mom had glasses like that.

[Brother Buzz]

29. Is that the Brown Bomber?

[MrScorpio]

33. That is...

He's my Great Uncle

[hifiguy]

47. That is so far beyond cool there aren't words for it. nt

[Cracklin Charlie]

36. Was your mother very smart?

She has a lovely high forehead, and my dear Aunt Alice would have said the high forehead is a sign of intelligence.

Nice photo.

[MrScorpio]

40. Extremely smart, like all the women in my family

Educators, entrepreneurs, government employees, moms, aunts and cousins

[Old Troop]

62. Where was it taken?

[MrScorpio]

64. You got me on that one.

I can't ask my mom, she died many years ago. I did ask one of the other women in the picture, my cousin and she told me that she couldn't remember that, if you can believe that or not.

If I were in that pic, I would have remembered. I'm thinking late '50s to around 1960 though.

[WolverineDG]

24. My many-times great-grandmother, born in 1812

edited to add: my cousin looks almost exactly like her!

[applegrove]

25. That's a really good painting. You really get a sense of what she might have been like.

[WolverineDG]

26. According to the person who posted it on Ancestry

it's taken from the actual picture of her.

[sakabatou]

27. Supposedly, my ancestor was Aaron from the Bible.

[applegrove]

28. I think many of us are related to characters in the Bible.

[sakabatou]

31. Well if you're a Kohen/Cohen, you're related to Aaron

Dunno about anyone else.

[harmonicon]

65. Well, it's a nice story...

but that's like claiming that we're all related to Adam and Eve and the world is 6,000 years old. Of course we are all related, but it goes much further back than that.

[annabanana]

30. Great Grandmama -

some Battleaxe, right?

[applegrove]

32. Love the dress and hat. I hope hats that big come back some day.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

34. Here's my dad, with his sister on the left, and his big brother standing in the back:

[applegrove]

35. What a sweet picture to have.

[tapermaker]

37. heres my favorite of my grandmother in the late 40s i think

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[tapermaker]

38. a little worse for wear . its my favorite picture of mysel and my little brother and sister in 1968

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[madamesilverspurs]

39. Howziss?

Commodore Silas Talbot, first to command U.S.S. Constitution "Old Ironsides"

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[Myrina]

41. Great grandmother's family ...

Knut and Augusta Andersen, Solum Norway, and their family.
My great grandmother (maternal side), Amanda Semina Andersen, is the youngest daughter(sitting down, in front).

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[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

43. Is a Mom an ancestor?

I think she's a Mom.

[yellowcanine]

52. +1

[polly7]

44. That's a fantastic picture. She's gorgeous.

My Mom and Dad:

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[hunter]

45. My great grandma and great grandpa...

My great grandmas were all strong women.

[SwissTony]

50. I wouldn't argue with her. Great photo nt.

[applegrove]

59. The salt of the earth for sure.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

48. mom and dad Christmas 1963

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[applegrove]

49. I love the hair and the gear.

[yellowcanine]

51. I don't think of my mom as an "ancestor." Technically she is I guess, but

in my mind someone doesn't have ancestral status unless they died before I was born.

[grasswire]

56. Annetje Jans, the "notorious" woman who owned lower Manhattan in 1600s

Notorious because she was once arrested for showing her ankle in public!

And notorious because her estate that included 60 acres of lower Manhattan was never settled and has been disputed since her death.

http://bp3.blogger.com/_10LAK1tX3R8/SDDvk-siaHI/AAAAAAAABp8/qGfiZdbtsWQ/s400/Anneke+Jans.jpg

The belle of Nieuw Amsterdam, in the 1600s.

[Flaxbee]

66. really neat photo of your mom; she looks happy and relaxed.

nt

[Manifestor_of_Light]

67. Maternal grandparents, about 1919.

They were from two little towns around Kosciuscko, MS. Both went to Mississippi A&M and got master's degrees, and became county extension agents in MS and later in TX.
Grandmother was my only live grandparent when I was growing up. She died in 1985.

http://imgur.com/e09o7

[applegrove]

69. How cool is that that they both had a masters back in the day. Very rare I would think.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

71. Yep they were energetic overachievers.

She was born in 1898, he in 1894. She was still a county extension agent in TX when I was a small child. She retired in 1962.
She was blessed with an overactive thyroid and thought my mother and I were just "lazy". We both had an underactive thyroid and needed more sleep. Thanks for those inherited autoimmune disease tendencies, mom!!

[ashling]

68. 3 generations

left to right: Francis Delesly Holmes -(with the beard) my great grandfather was a Texas Populist in the 1880s - 1890s ; Lee Lamar Pickett (on steps holding child) this was my grandfather; The child is my uncle Harold, seated in the rocking chair behind grandad is my grandmother: Mattie Hortense Holmes Pickett; In the other rocking chair sits my great grandmother, Mary Ann Gunter Holmes.

I have a quilt that she sewed in 1864 when she was 16:
. . . . . .

she used to tell my father stories of hearing the siege cannon at Vicksburg. The lived in Monroe Parish Louisiana.

[applegrove]

70. That is so great to have an intergenerational photo from so far back.

[JCMach1]

72. My Great Great Grandfather

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He was one of the last living Confederate veterans... He was drafted and not exactly an enthusiastic participant (He went AWOL on a number of occasions).

[applegrove]

73. If someone ever drafted me I would be awol all the time.