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Genealogy, family lore, memoirs, and so forth.

Another generation back in time: Great-Grandma Fisher’s parents

Sometimes a picture can take you deep down a rabbit hole. I found this picture of Walt’s great-grandmother, Ann (or Anna) Redmond Fisher. It was taken sometime before 1919, but I don’t know the exact date.

More cool photos: Grandma Link

It’s been so much fun to dig through the pictures. I found a couple of great ones with Walt’s Grandma Link this time. Lizzie was born April 2, 1890.

Working odd jobs in the 1920s

W.J. Link (Walt’s grandfather) did a lot of different jobs, threshing, pulling stumps, laying drain tile and drilling wells over the years. We found a couple of pictures in the latest batch that show some of his worksites.

Some pics from a trip to Louisiana in 1966

I’ve been scanning in more pictures and found a couple from a trip that Walt and his family took to Louisiana in 1966.

Pictures from the Old Threshers Reunion 1966

The Midwest Old Threshers Reunion in Mount Pleasant has been an event since 1950. I found a couple of pictures from the 1966 event in Georgie’s photos.

St. Mary’s Orchestra in 1934

I found this picture again while I was scanning some photos. I had used it in this post. It is from 1934 and shows the Orchestra from St. Mary’s school. Georgina isn’t in this picture, but she did play the flute.

Happy Birthday Cletus “Clip” Freitag

Cletus “Clip” Freitag was born on September 16, 1914 in Lee County, Iowa. His parents were William Henry Freitag and Catherine Bernadine Menke.

Delores Wellman, Georgina Hoel, Cletus, Linus, and Leo Freitag, taken in Houghton, Iowa in 1936. (the boys might be out of order, as it wasn’t clear on the photo who was who).

Fun photos – mirror shots

I haven’t done a lot of editing on these pictures, but I got such a smile from them that I wanted to share. When Carl and Georgie were dating, they did several sets of pictures where they would pose one and then the other in a similar setting. Here are a couple of fun ones.

Fun photo finds: cute cousins!

I have been working on scanning in some photos from the many boxes we have. I found a couple of fun photos of Walt’s brother’s and cousins from the 1950s.

Happy anniversary David and Bertha Humphries

I try to put up posts that relate to events that happened around the day of the post. Walt’s cousin Bertha got married on this date in 1939. Walt is the youngest of his cousins. I wasn’t able to find any pictures of David in the ones I have scanned in so far.

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