How Far Back Do You Have Photos Of Family Members?
By pyewacket
@pyewacket (43903)
United States
February 9, 2016 4:49pm CST
I guess I'm extremely lucky in that I still have a good number of old photos of family members. Now I'm not just talking about having "vintage" photos of say my mother and father, but I also have old time photos of my grandmother, grandfather (both sides maternal and paternal), great grandparents and yes even my great great grandmother. With the later, I have a few photos of my great great grandmother that are on one of those old time glass photos that looks like something out of the Civil War period. I include just one of them.
It's perhaps no wonder that all through my life I took an interest in photography myself.
How far back do your family photos go?
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@celticeagle (166830)
• Boise, Idaho
10 Feb 16
I have photos back to the later 1800's. Nothing real old.
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@celticeagle (166830)
• Boise, Idaho
6 Mar 16
@TheHorse ....about ott 4 I think. No, seriously-- earliest is about 1826.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
10 Feb 16
It's kind of "odd". I actually know more about my father's side of the family as I did a genealogy family research thing…my father's line goes back to 1710 when they came to America
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@T_gray (7774)
• Salina, Kansas
11 Feb 16
@pyewacket I wish I knew more, but I guess I never asked. I don't think my mom knows much...and my grandma has passed away. I don't talked to many on my dad's side.
That's really cool about the research thing
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@savak03 (6684)
• United States
26 Apr 16
@pyewacket That's odd in a way. I did that ancestry thing with a view to finding my birth mother. Since I was adopted by my paternal grandmother I did have the privilege of knowing who my birth parents were even though my mother wasn't in my life much. Unfortunately I couldn't find anything on her, not even a marriage certificate with my father. But I was able to trace my fathers family all the way back to Germany. I found out I still have relatives there.
@howard96h (11640)
• New York, New York
10 Feb 16
I love those old vintage photos. Do you know what year that photo was taken?
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
28 Feb 16
No idea at all…but glass photos were "popular" from the 1850s and 1860s
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@savak03 (6684)
• United States
26 Apr 16
I'm afraid my family pictures don't go back very far. We moved around a lot and things were always getting lost or left behind by accident. Then there were times when stuff was put in storage and some crook would break in and steal them. I have no idea what they would do with someones pictures but I guess if you were stealing the contents of the room you didn't take time to sort what could be sold from the stuff with no monetary value.
However my daughter got on this kick with her new smart phone about restoring old photos and making up albums. We had had several deaths in our family in a short period of time so she started contacting family members who had Facebook pages and they contacted other family members and shared their pictures with her and helped her identify the people in them. Then she worked her magic on them and applied labels and made everyone an album. Still this was mostly on her Daddy's side of the family so it didn't help with my ancestors that much.
@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
10 Feb 16
there are some good early photos of my grand-parents
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
22 May 17
I just posted a photo of my great, great grandfather. The photo is very old. I just completed a photo album with EIGHT generations of photos and information about my family from both my mother's and father's sides of my family.
It has taken me over a year, to collect photos of almost 50 first cousins.
I really like your photo too.
