Post your favorite picture of a relative/ancestor

[Burma Jones]

My Dad:



My Great x3 Grandparents

[momophile]

1. I love that picture of your dad

here's my favorite relative - my daughter:

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

2. She is so cute .

I love the " mommy what are you doing ? " look on her face .

[fight4my3sons]

14. She is so cute!

I love that little bit of hair that is sticking up :-)

[Burma Jones]

17. Thanks, your daughter has great eyes....

Here's one of my kids



And here's one of my future kid

[Sequoia]

43. Darling baby.

I think we should do a post just for baby photos.

[XNASA]

3. My Paternal Grandmother in 1922

[Burma Jones]

18. Cool, here's my Paternal Grandma, circa 1916

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. Okay...

I don't really have many scanned at the moment (something I keep intending to get around to), but...here's a picture of my 4th great-grandmother (taken in 1860):




And here's a picture of her daughter, my 3rd great-grandaunt (at left) with her husband (the photographer Mathew Brady, who took the picture above), and a friend.

[seemunkee]

6. The famous Civil War photographer?

Do you have the original photos?

[Spider Jerusalem]

7. I wish...

the one on top is a print I ordered from the Smithsonian (they bought the negatives of the collection in the 1950's); the other I got from the Smithsonian website.

[Sequoia]

49. Wow, that is utterly cool!!!

Matthew Brady!!

[Burma Jones]

19. Outstanding, like the Mencken quote too.....

[Sequoia]

51. Which one would that be?

In the March/April issue of American Journalism Review there's a book review about him. The book is "Mencken The American Iconoclast" by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers. He was not so kind to his girlfriends and he wrote columns about those lynchings but the Baltimore Sun would not back down to the boycotters and let him continue.

[Burma Jones]

78. The One in your Sig Line....n/t

[seemunkee]

5. My mom and grandfather

My mom, what a little imp


My grandfathers school picture from 8th grade

[Burma Jones]

20. A distinguished 8th grader......

Here's one of my Grandfather and my Dad

[leftofthedial]

23. bad hop, eh?

great pic!

[trackfan]

8. My great-great-great-grandfather

[Burma Jones]

21. Nice, was he Austrian? That's the vibe I get

My ancestors were kinda commonplace...

[trackfan]

27. Italian. I'm not sure why he had the fancy duds.

I think he was Mayor of the town. Maybe that's his Mayoring uniform.

[Burma Jones]

29. If he was Northern Italian, I was close....

[HamdenRice]

9. Maternal great grandfather & sons; Mom & Dad in the 1950s

I have posted these elsewhere on DU in other threads, but here goes again:

The following pic is my great-grandfather with his three sons, taken probably around 1915-1920; my grandfather is second from right. This is actually a photo of a picture I took at my grandfather's house sometime in the early 1970s:




The next two pics are my parents on vacation in Virginia in the early to mid 1950s. My paternal grandparents lived in essentially a log cabin until the late 1950s. My mother is not actually shooting (this close to the house) but posing:



And this is my father:

[Sugar Smack]

16. I have your thread bookmarked,

it was so beautiful I like to go back and look at the picures and read it sometimes.

:)

[HamdenRice]

50. Thank you -- it is so appreciated! nt

[Burma Jones]

24. My maternal Grandparents lived in a cabin that looked

a lot like the one you have pictured......

This is where my Dad's side lived for a while (they were more prosperous than my Mom's side)

[Heidi]

10. 1965.

My Granny and me.

[Burma Jones]

25. Your Grannie's a Looker...

Here's my Grannie and me...

[Heidi]

75. Well, what a sweet little blonde _you_ were.

You look incredibly like my husband, Call Me Wesley. He was such a round, blond, blue-eyed little Swiss baby that the family referred to him as "Baby Buddha." :rofl:

(Yes, my granny was a gorgeous woman, but she had a hard life, and that showed in her eyes, I think.)

[BigMcLargehuge]

11. Mine are all relatively recent

My Aunt Vivian holding my newborn daughter Meg. I lobbied really hard to name the baby Vivian to honor my beloved aunt, but I was outlobbied. I love this picture because it brings together 1st generation and 4th generation Americans.



My mom and dad from Thanksgiving five or six years ago



My dad working at my brother's restaurant

[fight4my3sons]

13. Your family looks so nice.

Meg is precious :-)

[Burma Jones]

28. Is your Pop shucking Oysters in the pic?

I married a first generation American. My family (both sides) were here before 1776, but my Father-in-Law was born a Jew in Germany in 1938 and his Dad got them out in the nick of time....

My kids are half WASP half Jew.

[BigMcLargehuge]

36. He's cleaning the Striped Bass he caught off the back pier

behind the restaurant

[fight4my3sons]

12. My little ones & Granddad

My twins when they were born.


My now three year old when he was one in his grandpa's pumpkin patch.


My Granddad is sitting on the right wing of the plane above the propeller.


Edit: found a picture of my granddad to add.

[Blue Belle]

46. I love the picture with the plane...

that's a great photo.

[Kire]

15. Here's my favorite pic of my Dad

[Sanity Claws]

32. I've heard of mowers with 3 horsepower but

now I've seen a one-dog powered mower.
It's a great photo of both your dad and his companion.

[Burma Jones]

33. You just have to be very careful to avoid poop.....

I have a bumper sticker that says: "The Dude Abides" I think some fundies think it refers to that other Dude in a robe.......

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

22. My mom with her parents, circa 1926

[Bullwinkle925]

52. That's one of my favorites too. You beat me to it , you creep!!

:+

[LaurenG]

26. 1869-70

GGG grandmother center, gg grandmother right and gg aunt left.

[Burma Jones]

30. I look at the 19th Century photos of my family and wonder

if anybody grinned before 1900?

[LaurenG]

34. lol I heard that they had to sit perfectly still for several minutes

I don't know it that is why they didn't smile or not though.

[enigami]

37. Your GGG Grandmother was a hottie n/t

[politicat]

31. There are so many I don't have....

My grandmother keeps promising to send them to me so I can scan them, but she's a bit... busy.

Here's my great-grandfather about a year ago, proudly showing off his new pajama pants:


He died in October, at age 92. In a lot of ways, he raised me, and was the prime male influence in my very early life. I credit him with my ability to have healthy relationships with men (because my relationship with my father was so very bad.)

On the other end of the scale, this is my niece, who will be two next month. This picture was taken in October, when we were all together for my great-grandfather's funeral. It was the only time I could get a picture of her -she's constantly in motion.

[Squatch]

35. One of my first ancestors

I don't think they had names back then.

[JVS]

38. I only have one ancestor whose picture is online, here he is

[SeattleGirl]

39. Not my absolute favorites, but I do like them:

My dad:


My mom:


And yep, that's me, when I was around 4 or so.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

40. my brother in drag

[Misunderestimator]

41. Wow! Gorgeous!

I see it runs in the family. Wish I had those hips.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

42. isnt he stunning? he looks beatiful as a man too...

[SeattleGirl]

47. Oh. My!

Your brother is gorgeous! (It obviously runs in the family!)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

48. yup he is simply gorgeous....

[EstimatedProphet]

44. Duncan II of Scotland

Otherwise known as King Duncan from Macbeth

[Magrittes Pipe]

45. Here's an in-law of mine, with Conway Twitty.

[Bullwinkle925]

53. Get outta town!

[Magrittes Pipe]

56. Yup.

Not a close relative, though, by any means. Loretta's grandmother and dolo's great-grandmother were sisters.

[Bullwinkle925]

57. Close enough. Do you ever get free tix?

[Magrittes Pipe]

58. Nah.

:(

[Bullwinkle925]

60. shux

[Skittles]

54. my mum and grandparents in England

the year WWII started:

[Guava Jelly]

55. My great great great great uncle Wilson Wentle

X union soldier And 1 armed drunk who liked chasing kids with shotguns and died fairly young Hit by a train.
on my fathers side


my mothers mother Sarah Kent


but their is no resembalence

[sendero]

59. My parents..

..... from the early 50s. Scanned from a negative :)




I just love old photos.

[Ptah]

61. Since I'm on dial-up, I won't see yours, but here's mine, with a quote

A brief ***** History

1850-1927

I do the very best I know how; the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so till the end; If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything.

-Lincoln-

[u4ic]

62. This is the only one I have scanned in so far

My paternal grandfather. He was born in 1900, and died in 1936 of a ruptured appendix. He left beind a 31 year old widow, and 7 kids.

[cleofus1]

63. great grandfather (my wife's)

[cleofus1]

64. great aunt on my mom's side

[cleofus1]

65. mom and dad in the 50's

[ScreamingMeemie]

71. That's a great picture! Part of me wishes people still dressed like

this. The other part would miss my sweat pants. :)

How are things, cleofus? :hi:

[cleofus1]

72. hey i'm doing great....

taking care of the kids and playing a lot of guitar...spending quiet time with the wife and trying to work on my painting...ahhhh the life of the overworked and underpaid gentry! i hope you are doing fine! and one of these days i am gonna learn to write a sentance without using exclamation points!

[ScreamingMeemie]

74. Ha! I have attempted, a few times, to post here without the benefit

of exclamation points or ellipses...I can't do it! :hi: Are the kids off for mid winter break? One of mine goes back today and the other has the rest of the week off. :hi:

[cleofus1]

76. nope both are in school

but today is their yearly visit to the eye doctor...so they at the very least get the morning off!

[Burma Jones]

79. Yer Ma is way cute.......

and your Dad is pretty dapper too.......

[cleofus1]

66. i love this picture of my wife

[cleofus1]

67. granpappy in a tourist trap in jalisco

[ScreamingMeemie]

68. My Mom and my Aunt. I used to stare at these for hours as a child.

I could not wrap my mind around the idea of my mom as a kid...Even in this picture she looks as if she carries the weight of the world.



R.I.P. Auntie Joyce...I still miss you.

[cleofus1]

69. i have a better version of this...but only this on hand

my wife's uncle Albert...a fur trapper as a young man

[cleofus1]

70. my dad me and my sister '59 or '60

[cleofus1]

73. an this is my favorite (so far) of the kids

[cleofus1]

77. this is one of my favorite of me and my sister

in the old house in el monte...reminds me of my dad's family...who are for the most part all dead...

[mdmc]

80. nana

:kick: