New Records Available To Search This Findmypast Friday, 27 March 2020

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New Scottish records available to search this Findmypast Friday

Findmypast is home to the fastest-growing collection of Scottish family records online.

Scotland, Ayrshire, Kilmarnock Valuation Roll 1874

Trace ancestors who owned or rented land in Kilmarnock with these valuation roll records from 1874. Transcripts with the most important family tree details, as well as digital copies of the original records can reveal:

• Landlord's and/or tenant's names
• Addresses
• Description of the property
• How much rent was paid

Scotland's valuation rolls recorded the people, properties and taxes for each county and burgh in the country between 1855 and 1996.

Scotland, Ayrshire, Kilmarnock Ratepayers 1838-1846

These unique records of ratepayers in Kilmarnock could reveal your Scottish ancestors' names, occupations and addresses.

Local and central government officials collected these property records until The Lands Valuation (Scotland) Act, 1854 established a uniform process for valuing tenancies across the country.

Scotland, Ayrshire, Kilmarnock Voters Lists 1837-1852

We're rounding-off our exclusive Kilmarnock collection with these fascinating electoral records. A combination of the records' transcripts and digitised images of the original documents can reveal:

• Names
• Occupations
• Addresses
• Your ancestor's chosen candidate
• Those who didn't vote

At the time these records were taken, the right to vote in Scotland was not universal. Only owners or tenants of residences worth more than £10 could vote, provided all of their taxes had been paid for the previous year.

Cross-referencing our new Kilmarnock records with Scottish censuses from surrounding years is a useful way to discover more details about your family and make sure you're focusing on the right person.

Newspapers

We've added almost a century's worth of pages from one new newspaper along with substantial updates to 10 titles from England and Ireland this week. Brand new to the site is:

• Crewe Chronicle covering the years 1874-1887 and 1889-1972

As well as that, here is the list of papers that have had more pages added and the years covered:

• Halifax Evening Courier has been updated with editions from 1893-1896
• Midland Counties Advertiser has been updated with editions from 1854-1875, 1881, 1885, 1892-1896, 1941, 1943 and 1946
• Scarborough Gazette has been updated with editions from 1850, 1855 and 1868
• Newcastle Journal has been updated with editions from 1936-1937
• Huddersfield Daily Examiner has been updated with editions from 1874
• Torbay Express and South Devon Echo has been updated with editions from 1958-1967 and 1969-1972
• Leicester Daily Mercury has been updated with editions from 1926 and 1931
• Harrow Observer has been updated with editions from 1980
• Kensington Post has been updated with editions from 1986
• Newcastle Evening Chronicle has been updated with editions from 1893

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Blaine Bettinger Announces Updated Shared CentiMorgan Tool, Version 4.0

Blaine Bettinger, author of The Genetic Genealogist blog and one of the genealogy world's rockstars, announced that he has updated his Shared CentMorgan project.  His blog post is Version 4.0! March 2020 Update to the Shared cM Project!

In addition, he has shared the 56 page document that provides a summary of the raw data and all of the charts that support the chart above in PDF form in  The Shared cM Project Version 4.0 (March 2020).

There are changes to the averages, minimums, and maximums for known relationships between persons.  The results are from DNA matches with over 60,000 submissions from genealogists and geneticists.  

This chart, and the others, is very helpful to determine relationships with your DNA matches.  However, the averages are for those relationships that have a matching cM value, and does not average in those known relationships that have no matching cM value.  The chart notes at the bottom that "...averages were determined only for submissions in which DNA was shared."

Thank you, Blaine, for making this process and the results available and transparent to the genealogy world!

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52 Ancestors - Week 323: #534 Josiah Wood (1687-1753) of Woburn, Massachusetts

Josiah Wood (1687-1753) is number 534 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandfather, who married #535 Ruth Walker (1692-1752) in 1710 in Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

I am descended through:

*  their daughter #267 Susanna Wood (1724-1780) who married #266 Nathan Reed (1719-1802) in 1743.

*  their son #132 Simon Gates (1739-1803) who married #133 Susannah Reed (1745-1833) in 1766.

*  their son #66 Nathan Gates (1767-1830) who married #67 Abigail Knowlton (1774-1855) in 1790.

*  their daughter, #33 Abigail Gates (1797-1867) who married  #32 Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825)  in 1817.

*  their son #16 Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) who married #17 Lucretia Townsend Smith (1828-1884) in 1851.

*  their son #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) who married #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) in 1874.

*  their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) who married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.

*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)  in 1942.

*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

*  Name:                             Josiah Wood[1–5]    

*  Sex:                                Male    

*  Father:                           Josiah Wood (1658-1741)    

*  Mother:                         Abigail Bacon (1667-1743)  

   

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                             31 August 1687, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1–2]    

*  Guardianship:               11 October 1736 (age 49), declared non compos mentis; Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[4]    

*  Death:                           4 January 1753 (age 65), Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1,5]  

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:                      Ruth Walker (1692-1752)    

*  Marriage:                      1710 (about age 23), Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1,3]    

*  Child 1:                       Josiah Wood (1711-1730)    

*  Child 2:                       John Wood (1713-1752)    

*  Child 3:                       Joseph Wood (1715-    )    

*  Child 4:                       Edward Wood (1718-    )    

*  Child 5:                       Ruth Wood (1720-1744)    

*  Child 6:                       Solomon Wood (1722-1790)    

*  Child 7:                       Susanna Wood (1724-1780)    

*  Child 8:                       Mary Wood (1726-1775)    

*  Child 9:                       Phebe Wood (1729-    )  

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

The Wood family of  eastern Massachusetts was described in "The English Origins and Descendants to the Fourth Generation of Edward Wood of Charlestown, Massachusetts" by Janet Delorey in The Genealogist[1]  However, this Josiah Wood family is not treated in full.

Josiah Wood was born 31 August 1687 in Woburn, Massachusetts Bay, the son of Josiah and Abigail (Bacon) Wood of Woburn, the eldest of seven children[1-2].  He was the third generation with his given name of Josiah.  The birth record in the Woburn town vital record book says:

"[WOOD] Josiah, s. of Josiah and Abigail, Aug. 31, 1687."

Josiah married Ruth Walker (1692-1752) of Woburn in 1710 in Woburn[1,3].  She was the daughter of John and Ruth (Kendall) Walker of Woburn.  They had nine children between 1711 and 1729, all registered in Woburn[2]:

*  Josiah Wood (1711-1730).

*  John Wood (1713-1752), married 1736 Esther Johnson (1715-????)

*  Joseph Wood (1715-????) married 1736 Tabitha Hazeltine (1714-1780)

*  Edward Wood (1718-????), married about 1743 Ruth --?-- (1720-????).

*  Ruth Wood (1720-1744) married 1742 Benjamin Nutting (1711-1749).

*  Solomon Wood (1722-1790) married 1752 Martha Johnson (1734-????).

*  Susanna Wood (1724-1780) married 1743 Nathan Reed (1719-1802).

*  Mary Wood (1726-1775) married 1746 George Reed (1723-1804)

*  Phebe Wood (1729-????) married 1749 William Slack (1726-1790).

Josiah Wood of Woburn was declared "non compos mentis" in May 1736. The records are in Middlesex County Probate Records, Packet #25,489[4]:

*  In May 1736, his wife Ruth and eldest son John Wood declared that "the said Josiah Wood, by the Providence of God is become non compos mentis, and so wanting of understanding as to be uncapable of providing for himself or managing his efforts.  That by reason of the Purchase he made a little before he fell into these his said unhappy circumstances he is considerably in Debt."

*  The Selectmen of Woburn (John Foishe (?), John Russell, Samuel Richardson and James Simonds) declared to the Court that they were of the opinion that "Josiah Wood Junior is so far non compos as that is alltogether uncapable to take any care or to provide for himself or family or to manage his affaires."

*  Consequently, Ruth Wood and John Wood were appointed guardians of Josiah Wood on 11 October 1736.  John Wood and Samuel Wood posted 1,000 pounds as bond for the guardianship and were charged to produce an inventory of the estate of Josiah Wood, Junior, husbandman of Woburn.

*  On 8 January 1736/7, the Debts due from the estate of Josiah Wood Junior totalled 219 pounds, 15 shillings.

*  On 12 January 1736/7, Jonathan Bacon, Samuel Wood and Edward Walker subscribed to the inventory of the estate of Josiah Wood of Woburn, non compos.  The real estate included:
**  His new dwelling house and barn and about 22 acres of land (340 pounds)
**  The House and Land and Meadow he bought of Mr. John Knight about 52 acres (400 pounds)
**  56 acres of Land and meadow and swamp lying at a place called Longmedow (420 pounds)
**  14 acres of Land lying on Longmeadow Hill (70 pounds)
**  4 acres of Land adjoyning to Land that was John Wymans (20 pounds)

The inventory totaled 1,430 pounds, 19 shillings including the livestock, household stuff and supplies.

*  The list of debts and inventory were accepted by the Court on 17 January 1736/7.  A note on the bottom of the page says "would sell the land bought of John Knight - to the value of the Debts, the Personal Estate being necessary to keep house."

*  Ruth Wood and John Wood, guardians of Josiah Wood Junior, non compos mentis, wrote an account dated 17 January 1736/7 that added 16 pounds in cash received of Ruth Wood, 80 pounds in cash received of John Wood that was due from the estate of Josiah Wood deceased, and 20 pounds from Samuel Wood on the Bond account yet due.  The accountants craved allowance in their discharge of debts to George Reed, Thomas Skilton Junior, Sibella Reed, John Knight, Jonathan Hayward, Edward Walker, and Ebenezer Reed;  John Wood requested 60 pounds for his service and for the care of Josiah Wood and family for two years;  for court costs; and for cash to repair the house and barn, and for a pair of oxen, a pair of cows, and for a horse; 90 pounds to Edward Wood for three years service on the place;  53 pounds 12 shillings was received from John Wood for land sold, and 5 pounds 10 shillings for timber sold.  The account was accepted by the Court on 12 December 1741 as far as they had proceeded.

*  On 2 December 1743, Joseph Wood, Nathan Reed, Josiah Johnson, Benjamin Nutting, Thomas Skilton Junior, Edward Wood, Thomas Skilton, Mary Wood and Phebe Wood petitioned the Court to depose John Wood from his office by reason of his unbecoming behavior and place their uncle Edward Walker in his place.  John Wood was summoned on 12 December 1743 to appear before the Judge on the first Monday of January 1743/4 to answer the written complaint.  On 14 December 1743, Thomas Skilton, Thomas Skilton Junior, George Reed and Ebenezer Reed certified, being neighbors, they were well satisfied that John Wood takes advantage by his being Guardian with his mother in the management of his father's estate, noting that he takes produce from the estate without his mother's free consent and to the damage of the estate.  The Judge removed John Wood as a guardian on 9 January 1743/4, appointing Ruth Wood, wife of Josiah Wood, as his sole Guardian.

Josiah's parents died in the early 1740s but there is no probate record for them in Middlesex County.

Josiah's wife, Ruth, died in March 1752.  Josiah and Ruth probably were cared for until their deaths by one of his children.

Josiah Wood died 4 January 1753 in Woburn, Massachusetts[5].  There is no burial record for Josiah Wood, and there is no further probate record for him or Ruth..

 

5.  SOURCES

1. Janet Ireland Delorey, "English Origins and Descendants to the Fourth Generation of Edward Wood of Charlestown, Massachusetts," The Genealogist, Volume 10, pages 90 ff., page 111, sketch of #16  Josiah Wood (1658-1741) lists Josiah Wood (1687-1753) family.

2. Edward F. Johnson,  Woburn Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths [3 Volumes], (Woburn, Mass.: The News Print, 1893), Births, page 280, Josiah Wood birth entry, 31 August 1687, son of Josiah and Abigail.

3. Edward F. Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths [3 Volumes], Volume 3, page 410, Josiah Wood and Ruth Walker marriage entry, 1710.

4. "Middlesex County, MA: Probate Papers, 1648-1871," digital image, American Ancestors (http://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed 13 August 2017), Packet #25,489, Josiah Wood, 1736 non compos mentis estate papers (14 sheets).

5. Edward F. Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths [5 Volumes], Volume 2, page 210, Josiah Wood death entry, 1753.

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NOTE:  In 2014, Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I have extended this theme in 2020 for a seventh year to 364 Ancestors in 364 Weeks.  The list of 52 Ancestors biographies from my great-grandparents to the 7th great-grandparents (in work) is in   https://www.geneamusings.com/p/ancestor-biographies.html.

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Seavers in the News -- Gertrude Evelyn Seaver (1896-1925) Dies in Kellogg, Idaho

It's time for another edition of "Seavers in the News" - a weekly feature from the historical newspapers about persons with the surname Seaver that are interesting, useful, mysterious, fun, macabre, or add information to my family tree database.

This week's entry is from the The Spokesman-Review [Spokane, Wash.] newspaper dated 21 July 1925:

The transcription of the article is:

"Mrs. G.E. Seaver Succumbs

"KELLOGG, Idaho. July 18. -- Mrs. Gertrude Evelyn Seaver, age 28, died at the Wardner hospital today.  She is survived by her husband, three children and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stewart."

The source citation is:

"Mrs. G.E. Seaver Succumbs," St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper, obituary, Tuesday, 21 July 1925, page 4, column 4, Gertrude Evelyn Seaver death notice; Newspapers.com   (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 26 March 2020).

Unfortunately, the death notice does not provide more information.  It had all the characteristics of a family tree mystery because it named only her parents and not her husband or three children.  When I searched for Gertrude Stewart in my RootsMagic family tree, I found her and her family immediately.  But there's a twist here.

Gertrude Evelyn Stewart, born 29 September 1896 (in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England) married, first to Gordon Raymond Seaver (1888-1918) on 30 September 1914 in Creston, British Columbia, Canada.  They had one child:

*  Rose Mollie Seaver (1915-1995), who married Theodore August Hering (1898-1975) in 1935.

After Gordon Raymond Seaver died in 1918, Gertrude married his brother, Clifford Marion Seaver (1894-1951) on 25 July 1919 in Spokane, Washington.  They had two children:

*  Dorothy Marion Seaver (1919-2002), married John D. Gerick (1918-1871) and Rolland A. Kimball (1929-1999). 

*  Clifford Daniel Seaver (1922-1990), married Ruth Margaret Farrell (1921-1999).

Gordon Raymond Seaver (1888-1918) and Clifford Marion Seaver (1894-1951) were sons of Daniel Horace Seaver (1848-1924) and Mary Ellen "Molly" Snyder (1867-1898).

The children of Gertrude Evelyn (Stewart) (Seaver) Seaver are my 9th cousins once removed.  

Gertrude's death left three children, aged 10, 5 and 3 to be raised by Clifford Seaver.  There is a death certificate available on Ancestry.com in the "Idaho Death Records, 1890-1967" record collection which adds more information:

The cause of death is listed as puerpural peritonitis caused by a miscarriage after a fall, suffering for five days.  Her parents are named as Robert Stewart and Martha Louise Smith. The informant is C.M. Seaver, certainly her husband.  This is a family tragedy - a young woman bringing another child into the world and they not only lose the child but the mother also.  

There are over 9,000 Seaver "stories" in my family tree - this was one of them.   Life happens, accidentally and intentionally, and  sometimes it is a tragic life story. I am glad that I can honor Gertrude Evelyn (Stewart) (Seaver) Seaver today.

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Disclosure:  I have a complimentary subscription to Newspapers.com and have used it extensively to find articles about my ancestral and one-name families.

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Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1687 Birth Record of Josiah Wood in Woburn, Mass.

It's Treasure Chest Thursday - a chance to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the 1687 birth record of Josiah Wood in the Woburn, Massachusetts town vital record book:

 The birth record for Josiah Wood is the first entry in the Wood list:

This record says:

"[WOOD] Josiah, s. of Josiah and Abigail, Aug. 31, 1687."

The source citation for this record is:

Edward F. Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths [5 Volumes], (Woburn, Mass.: The News Print, 1893), Volume 1, Births, page 280, Josiah Wood birth entry, 31 August 1687, son of Josiah and Abigail.

This record is a Derivative Source with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the name of Josiah Wood and his parents, and the birth date and place.  The Original Source is a town record book birth register that is no longer available.  This is still Primary Information and Direct Evidence for the names and birth event.

Josiah Wood (1687-1753) was the son of Josiah Wood (1658-1741) and Abigail Bacon (1667-1743).  Josiah Wood married Ruth Walker (1692-1752) in Woburn in about 1710, and they had 9 children.  

Josiah and Ruth (Walker) Wood are my 7th great-grandparents, through their daughter,, Susanna Wood (1724-1780) who married Nathan Reed (1719-1802) in 1743 in Boston.  

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Dear Randy: How do I Create a List of Persons Who died in 1918 in RootsMagic?

A Genea-Musings reader asked this question in email:  "How do I create a list of persons who died in 1918?"

How to answer this type of question usually perplexes me, but I recalled that I did something similar for burial places and also for people alive in 1940 who might be in the U.S. Census.  Here are links to earlier posts:

*  Creating a List of Burials in a Specific Cemetery Using RootsMagic (2018)
*  Making a List of Persons Alive in the 1940 US Census (2012)

*  RootsMagic blog post: Tip: Planning Cemetery Trips with RootsMagic (2014).
*  The RootsMagic Help section for "Individual List" is helpful too.

Here is how I worked in RootsMagic to find all of the people in my database who died in 1918:

1)  I clicked on the "Reports" menu and then "Print A Report" and that opened the list of all reports and charts.  I scrolled down to "Individual List:":

2)  After clicking on "Individual List," I had to select which persons in my database I wanted to use.  I don't want "Everyone," I want to select from a list so I picked "Select from list:"

3)  That opened the "Select People" screen, and I want to "Select people by data fields:"

4)  In the "Search for information" screen, I want to search Death dates and make the date equal to 1918.  I clicked on the top "<Select fields>" dropdown menu and selected "Death" as the field and selected "date" as the field content, and then kept "equals" in the operator field and typed "1918" in the date content field.  Here's the screen after I've entered the data:

I don't need any other data entry.  I clicked on "OK" and the screen showed that it found 185 people who met the criteria:

5)  I clicked on "OK" again and I was back to the "Individual list" screen:

6)  From the screen above, I clicked the "Generate Report" button at at the bottom of the screen, and saw:

This is a 36 page report of the 185 persons in my RootsMagic database who died in 1918.  It provides name, birth date/place, death date/place and marriage date/place.  If the Death Description field contains a cause of death, the report provides that on the Death line.

7)  RootsMagic can also create a similar report using the "Custom Report."  The custom report can be tailored to the fields you want to have in the report, but it works in a similar process to identify the people to put in the report.  The "Individual List" is easier to use for this task.

8)  Since RootsMagic Version 8 is about to be released, this process, or at least the screen content and navigation, will change.

9)  Other genealogy software (e.g., Family Tree Maker, Legacy Family Tree, Heredis, Family Historian, Ancestral Quest, and many others) can perform this task.  Perhaps readers who prefer one of those programs can answer the same question my reader had and write a blog post about it.

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Disclosure:  I have used RootsMagic genealogy software since 2006, and have always paid for my license.

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Genea-Catnip -- AncestryDNA ThruLines Are Updating Every Week

Have you checked your AncestryDNA ThruLines recently?  You should, because AncestryDNA seems to update them every week by Wednesday morning.  I checked them yesterday (Tuesday), and had 6 new ThruLines noted.  I checked today (Wednesday), and have 12 new ThruLines - different from yesterday's new ThruLines.  The same thing happened last week - I had 0 new on Tuesday, and then 6 new on Wednesday.

Frankly, this is genea-catnip for me!  New matches that I share a common ancestor with a family tree!

How do I find the NEW ThruLines?  Here is my process:

1)  On the DNA > ThruLines page, there is a dropdown "Filters" menu.  If you click on "Filters" it shows on the screen:

The options on the "Filters" menu are:

*  All ancestors (the screen above)
*  Ancestors with new DNA matches (I have 12 today!)
*  Potential ancestors
*  Ancestors in your linked tree
*  Maternal ancestors
*  Paternal ancestors

2)  I clicked on the "Ancestors with new DNA matches" and saw the 12 ancestors listed:

I believe, but don't know for sure, that this means "ancestors" and not 12 new DNA matches with common ancestors with me.  So there could be 2 or 3 new matches for any one of the ancestors with a new match.

3)  I clicked on the first one, for my 3rd great-grandfather Abraham Kemp, and it showed me ThruLines to 25 DNA matches with a ThruLine:

4)  The challenge now is to identify the new DNA matches with a new ThruLine.  Since Abraham Kemp has 25 ThruLines, including mine, it is easier to search for New DNA Matches with a known Common Ancestor.  Other times, just inspecting the ThruLines for an ancestor easily reveals the new DNA Match with a ThruLine.  I'll post about searching for New DNA Matches with a known common ancestor on another day.

5)  I recently posted in Dear Randy: What Do You Add To Your Family Tree For DNA Matches? about how I work with the AncestryDNA ThruLines.

6)  My wish list for AncestryDNA includes identifying how many DNA Matches have "Common Ancestors," and also a Chromosome Browser and a way to download DNA segment data to a spreadsheet. 

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Disclosure:  I have a complimentary all-access subscription from Ancestry.com, for which I am thankful.  Ancestry.com has provided material considerations for travel expenses to meetings, and has hosted events and meals that I have attended in Salt Lake City, in past years.

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Linda's Mother on Vacation in Mid-1970s -- Post 610 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

I  can't help it, I can't do a wordless post!  I found some more family photos hiding in Linda's family photo boxes.  This is one of my favorite photographs:

This is Linda's mother, Edna May (Schaffner) Leland (1913-1979) in the mid-1970s.  I think she is in a beachfront hotel, but I don't know where the hotel or the beach or the white building in the distance are located.  Linda's father, Lee Severt Leland (1911-2002) probably took this photograph. Linda's parents loved to go on cruises, and went at least once a year or so.  She has a flower in her hair, so this may have been a special occasion (their 40th wedding anniversary was in 1977).  It may have been in Hawaii.  Maybe Linda's brother knows!

These photos were scanned from photographs created from developed film prints and are not particularly sharp, but they are what we have!

Several times a year when our children were growing up, Linda sent photographs to her parents and brother in San Francisco.  When her father died in 2002, her brother sorted out the photos and gave Linda the ones that were of our family and the ones interacting with them.  They were given to us in a big box of stuff back in 2006, and we finally looked at them last year!  I've started digitizing them for use in these Wordless Wednesday posts.

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