I brought four boxes of mainly pictures back from my parent’s house when I visited for Christmas. I have my work cut out for me for a long while sorting and digitizing and attaching all the photos. I have everything from photos on CDs to slides, negatives, and watercolor paintings of ancestors. On New Year’s Day, I scanned and uploaded a few of the professionally taken and framed pictures and a few others, but I will be working on this project probably for months. So far I have uploaded new pictures to FamilySearch and Ancestry for:
- Jay & Cleora Peterson
- Elaine Thayn
- Lynn & Mary (Squire) Peterson
- June Peterson Hollingsworth
- Raymond & Miriam Squire
- Neva Peterson
- Herman & Miriam (Peterson) Gorndt
- Edward & Aleita (Manson) Pierce
- Austin H Johnson, Jr
- John Jay Squire & Laura May Page
- Edmond Frederick Squire & Josephine Titus
If you want to keep up with this project, I recommend you follow Jay & Cleora Peterson and their parents on FamilySearch. I will also try to post updates with links to the people to whom I have added pictures.
In addition to the time it takes to sort and scan all the pictures, I also spend time trying to figure out who people are in the pictures. For example, I was able to identify and link this picture to Jay’s friend, Herbert Loucks (thankfully labeled on the slide frame), by finding him in the 1940 U.S. Census in Lewistown, PA.
I’m still trying to guess who Sharon Squire is in the picture on the right. It was taken by the professional photographer in Lewistown, PA that my great grandparents regularly used, but it doesn’t have a date and I have family pictures that were taken there from at least the 1930s to the 1950s (including my uncle as a baby that was taken when his family visited PA from KS) that have the same handwritten photographer’s signature. I have not come across any Squire relatives with a Sharon so far in my research, so she may be a long-term project to identify.
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