Saturday, October 25, 2014

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Photographs Through the Generations

Hey genea-folks, 
it's Saturday Night again, 

 time for more Genealogy Fun!

 


Your mission this week, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music!) , is to:


This post was inspired by the NEHGS newsletter survey this week:


1)   How many generations do you have photographs or portraits of your ancestors and descendants?  It can be any line...it just can't be broken!

2)  Tell us the line, or better yet, show us the unbroken line.  Provide birth-death years, and the approximate date that the photograph or portrait was made.

3)  Share your generation picture line in a blog post of your own, or in a Google+ or Facebook post, or in a comment to this post.  

Here's mine:

I think I have photographs for 8 generations of ancestors and descendants.  Here they are:

1)  3rd great-grandfather: John Richman (1788-1867) of Hilperton, Wiltshire, England, taken in the 1860s:



2)  2nd great-grandfather: James Richmond (1821-1912), taken in the 1890s:


3)  First great grandfather: Thomas Richmond (1848-1917), taken in the 1890s:


4)  Grandmother: Alma Bessie (Richmond) Seaver, taken in the 1920s:


5)  Father: Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983), taken in the 1950s:


6)  Myself:  Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-????), taken in 2005.


7) and 8)  My descendants, taken in 2013:


That's it!  8 generations, spanning lives over 200 years (150 years of photographs).  I may be able to add another generation in 10-20 years.

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2014/10/saturday-night-genealogy-fun.html

Copyright (c) 2014, Randall J. Seaver


4 comments:

Dorene from Ohio said...

Here's my post, Randy:

http://graveyardrabbitofsanduskybay.blogspot.com/2014/10/sngf-photographs-through-generations.html

GeneGinny said...

I'm a piker with just 6 photographed generations (or 7, if I'd remembered sooner).
http://geneginny.blogspot.com/2014/10/sngf-photographs-through-generations.html

Ruth said...

http://ruthsancestors.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/photographs-through-generations.html

I managed 7 generations!

Carrie Smith said...

http://underthenuttree.blogspot.com/2014/10/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-on-sunday.html