WWI era family pics

[Jimmi]

Just thought some if you might like to see some of my pics in a family album of mine.



Sitting in picture is my great great grandmother



Great great grandmom Melser again

 

[ramjet2187]

Nice pictures. Do you have the names of the people in the other pics? I ask because I recently became the recipient of the 'family photos' from my mother. I have pictures going back 3-4 generations, and not all are identified. I really need to get busy and archive the photos, and add the names, dates, places, etc so future generations of my family will be able to keep up with them. I've got a lot of work to do!!

 

[Jimmi]

Nice pictures. Do you have the names of the people in the other pics? I ask because I recently became the recipient of the 'family photos' from my mother. I have pictures going back 3-4 generations, and not all are identified. I really need to get busy and archive the photos, and add the names, dates, places, etc so future generations of my family will be able to keep up with them. I've got a lot of work to do!!

Soldier is Carl Melser , the children are identified by " children of so and so"

 

[l2hunt]

thanks for sharing, i love old pics!

 

[Dave44]

Melser? You know speaking German was against the law at that time? And he was a doughboy? Or was I wrong in the name?

 

[Jimmi]

Melser? You know speaking German was against the law at that time? And he was a doughboy? Or was I wrong in the name?

Yesssss, that was his name... What am I missing here? Lol . Because it's of German decent ?

 

[Dave44]

No jimmi, I am also of German descent, just saying, my family quit speaking German at that time. I am just impressed. Nice pics. Glad you have them.

 

[Jimmi]

Thank you. I'm glad I have them too

 

[lost]

Have the same problem as ramjet. Have lots of old pictures going back through several generations and lots of people unidentified. As they were passed to my Dad, his Mother helped ID the ones she knew. Then Dad ID'ed a few more over the years. When he passed them to me, that pretty much ended the search for lost names. He's gone. Everybody is gone. It's an interesting collection. I especially like the ones that have a good background showing behind the people. Some of those houses and barns are still standing.

Thanks for posting your pictures Jimmi.

 

[TheHarleyMan2]

That is cool Jimmi! My great great grandparents came in from Germany, (on my dads said), back around 1885-1890's somewhere around there. I only have a few names and wish there were photos to pass around down the family chain.

My dad took pictures of us growing up, but he never had many of his parents, grandparents, etc, guess due to teh fact his mother and father divorced, people stopped talking to each other etc.

At least you got something to referrence on who looks like whom!

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Great pictures! And amazing the timing.

I don't know a great deal about my ancestors, though I have the original family farm - my ancestors were the first settlers. And I have my great great great grandfather's discharge paper as POW in the Union prisons.

But last weekend I went down to the county historical society, and they had a book featuring historical pictures of the county.

I finally started looking at the book on Thursday, and ran into pictures of my grandfather and great grandfather on my father's side dated 1908, and then a few pages later I found pictures of my great grandparents on my mother's side dated early 1900's.

So, take a look at your ancestral historical society! You never know what you'll run into - in addition to tips about potential hunting sites.