Knitting My Tree Together

Black and white photo of a group of 3 rows of children of various ages in colonial costumes holding the Betsy Ross designed and sewn flag of 13 alternating stripes of red and white and circle of 13 white stars on the upper left solid blue field. Photo edge is marked "1937" in pen. On the back of this photo my great grandmother Jessie McIntosh Sturtevant wrote out their names as follows: 1937 Ossipee Center School play When Betsy Ross made Old Glory First row L-R Roland Wilkins Edwin French Jr Norman Remick Jr Harvey Emerson Raymond Perry Lenela Moody Madeline Goldsmith Dorothy Sturtevant* Esther Perry Barbara Emerson Second row L-R Violet Moody Flora Sturtevant* Theresa Goldsmith Vileta Moody Jean Sawyer John F. Harmon Joseph Nevers Harley Moody Back row L-R   Elmer Berry - Violin Miss Todd - Piano Helen Sturtevant* George Knapp - Mandolin Robert Sawyer Jr Hayes Sawyer Jr * Denotes grandmother and great aunts of this blogger. In 1937 Helen was 13, Flora was 10, an...

Week 1 and (just in case I don't make it any further this month) the January monthly prompt is: Foundations. "August 21, 1983, Daddy & Lissa on the family room foundation" from the Flattery family photo collection currently in the possession of the author. Writing this during naptime on Sunday. My dad retired a couple years ago. My parents put their house up for sale, and it sold in two weeks. It happened so fast they had to put everything into storage because they thought they'd have a couple months to figure out next steps. I begged for the family photos and docs.  They brought me the totes of photo books and docs in 2021. I had never seen some of this stuff! Now some of that delay was the pandemic, they spent most of 2020 with my family in Georgia while there stuff was up in Massachusetts. Some of that is they don't want anyone to have their stuff. Haha. Well I scanned what I could and look at what I found. Dad attended Silver Lake Regional Vocational High ...

  A black & white but sort of sepia photo of a baby in a bonnet looking to their left, sitting in what looks to be a Dr.'s bag or a carpet bag  (today's weekender?) on a doorstep with a paneled door behind it, shingle siding, wide trim around the door. Its slightly out of focus as if the person didn't quite know how to take the picture, or if the subject was moving.  The photo is from a collection of my maternal great grandmother's albums. Most are on the same paper with the white border, same B&W/Sepia quality. They start in 1918, and go through the late 40's. She would have been 20 years old in 1918. I can't find her on the 1920 US Census.  I have a hunch of who this is & where my great grandmother was, what she was doing. There's a fantastic indexed item on the big A genealogy website "Mae Intorf." Is that you gran? I started doing genealogy to try and figure out who my people are and why they are the way they are. The issues I have ...