Old photos of your heritage

[Floppin]

My GGGG Grandpa Joel Johnson and his 2nd wife (boy isn't she a thing of beauty?)

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That's a woman???? Yikes.

[88 Bronco]

[Jakob]

A photo of my heritage you say?

 

[YourMomsLover]

That's a woman???? Yikes.

Yea man. Lol

My GGG grandpa had much better taste in women though lol

She's a little more attractive lol

Edit: this photo was damn near destroyed in a house fire if you can't tell. I am grateful my grandma had them restored.

[bigjohn]

I really need to get some photos scanned, that we still have left. Grandparents house was nearly destroyed in a fire about 20 years ago and got a lot of the pics.

 

Great grandpa on my mom's side used to run moonshine during prohibition. Rumor has it he was running with some of the NASCAR pioneers.

 

Grandpa on my dad's side was a WWII vet and typical salt of the earth type. Greatest man I've ever known, wise and great wit but very quiet. Worked all his life so his kids would have it better, as most have mentioned.  Quiet school to work on the farm in 8th grade, went to war, came home and worked in a wood working shop for 40 years, then did his own wood working in his little shop after he retired.

 

Funny how these things always turn out. No one ever posts how their great grandfather was a rich slave owner. Everyone was dirt poor back then I guess!

[Mr. Scot]

One of my uncles was in the D-Day offensive in World War 2.

 

No pics of him, but I do have a shot of one of my earlier ancestors.

 

 

 

[OnlyPantherFaninMaine]

I have quite a bit back at my house in Maine. Last time I went digging through photos and old documents I stumbled across a document that stated and granted my great-grandfather American citizenship. 

[Captroop]

 

Funny how these things always turn out. No one ever posts how their great grandfather was a rich slave owner. Everyone was dirt poor back then I guess!

 

Can't speak for everyone else, but my Polish ancestors immigrated during the 1890s and my German ancestors immigrated in the 1910s to escape the hyperinflation. Both were broke as all hell. I think the families of slave owners are now the old money in the US. I can't image many of the people in the Middle class are related to the Jeffersons, Washingtons, O'Haras, etc.

 

That's why it's always funny to me to hear how my ancestors benefitted from slavery ('cause I'm white and all). Truth be told, my family was subject to persecution, not dealing it out. The KKK burned a cross on my great grandmother's lawn after WWI because she was German. (Which is actually why we don't speak German anymore. After that, my Great Grandma would smack the kids when they spoke German, so they would only speak English and better assimilate.) But she was a tough old gal. She responded by buying a 10-guage shotgun, and after that, any time she heard someone walking around her cabin after dark she'd just open the front door and give a fire a warning shot.

 

[Panthro]

 

This is my Great Great Great Grandfather Roger or as he is known in the family as "Immigrant Roger." Came over from from County Sligo...his death certificate said he was a genial Irishman. 1833-1906

[Floppin]

[Zod]

his death certificate said he was a genial Irishman. 1833-1906

 

So he would share a pint with you after fisticuffs?

[Panthro]

before and after

[Kevin Greene]

OK, have you or your kids ever read the book 'Island of the Blue Dolphins' and the "Lone Woman" of San Nicholas Island with Captain Nidever? I took this picture because Captain Nidever is my daughter Annie's Great, Great, Great, Great Uncle. That would be 3 to me. So here's the plaque and Annie a couple years back, a little local Santa Barbara history for ya. 

 

 

 

This plaque is on the wall in the court yard of the Santa Barbara Mission.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[KendrickPanther]

The Kendricks had a small farm in Nacogdoches, Texas. They grew figs and watermelons. My great grandfather died before my grandfather was born. My great grandmother remarried a Baptist preacher. A real fire and brimstone guy. It made my grandfather a mean old cuss.