A picture of my Great-Grandparents and kids when they arrived in New York.

[texanwitch]

They didn't stay long in New York, they did move to Texas.

They had several more children.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear texanwitch!

I love this old picture. Their lives were so different from ours.

They had several more children? Wow. And from the looks of things, she had them at pretty close intervals.

Where did they emigrate from?

Thanks for sharing!

:hi:

[texanwitch]

2. The came from what is now the Czech Republic.

The were farmers so children were important as workers.

My grandmother wasn't born yet.

[applegrove]

3. It is so great to own pictures going back that far.

[SoCalDem]

4. Here is my grandfather as a baby (with his twin sister & the other kids)

This was taken in 1888..there would be 4 more children..the last in 1896.

[texanwitch]

5. Great picture.

I think my picture was taken about 1876 or so.

I look like the two youngest girls in my picture.

There is another picture taken about 10 later I am trying to find.

Most of the children are that picture..

My Great-Grandparents had big families, they were farmers.

Lots of cotton to pick.

[texanwitch]

6. Here it is , found the right flashdrive.

There is only 10 kids here, 3 more to go.

My Grandmother still isn't in the picture yet.

[SoCalDem]

11. I LOVE old pictures..but I wish they were smiling

There are not many old pics in my family.. It was costly to have them taken, and my family was pretty poor..

This one I found online, quite by accident:)

It's interesting too, to see the homes they lived in..with all those kids.. It cracks me up when I see an episode of "House Hunters"..where a woman says of a 2800 sq ft home.. "Gee , it feels cramped"..and they have ONE kid :rofl:

[texanwitch]

12. There is a house in my neighborhood, a tiny 3 bedroom house.

The couple raised 11 kids in that house.

It is a tiny house.

[kimi]

7. What fantastic heirlooms!

It must be so great to see your roots so clearly, to have such a sense of belonging. And to see how far lifestyles have come in a scant 100 - 150 years.

[texanwitch]

9. I have lot of old photos I need to scan.

There seemed to be real photo bug in the families.

I can trace the Grandparents familes back to the old country, where they came from.

A cousin did a lot of work in Europe.

The churches kept a lot of the information.

[proteus_lives]

8. Family history is wonderful!

I'm a huge buff for my own. We have pictures and letters from the 1860s and family documents that go back to the 1790s. My father's family actually came to Virgina when it was still a British colony.

I have my family crest tattooed on my back. I'll inherit tons of cool things from parents about our history.

The most treasured piece is a letter written to great-great-great-grandfather from Abraham Lincoln. It's on the wall in my dad's study and someday it will be on my wall.

[texanwitch]

10. My father's side of the family came from the deep south, slowly moved to Texas.

I can trace a Great-Great something grandfather back to Virgina about that same time.

We couldn't go back futher then that.

Some of them had Spanish, Mexican and Texas land grants.