In This Issue

For Your Interest
Words From The Reunited
Photo of the Month
Pick and Shovel
Dead Ringers
Kindred Spirit - Emily Croom's Ladies Club
What's New In The Database?
Recognize These Faces?

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Political Portraits

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Foster Photos

Our foster program aims at connecting photos with their rightful families through volunteers that visit our website. If you would like to Foster a photo, just click on the "Foster Me" link beneath that photo. All you have to do is actively seek (through message boards, phone books, and other research) a relative of the person in the photo. We will add you as the primary contact in that photo record as the "Foster" parent. If you find the photo's home, we'll send it to the family for free.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to our foster program so far!

359 & 360 Karl & Lucille Schlotterer

This is a picture of my grandparents. I am Lucille Schlotterer King's daughter.

361 & 362 Agnes & Butler Blacklock

Thanks for submitting this photo of my great-great grandparents. My mother was Vera Franks Senter, daughter of Bessie Lillian Blacklock Franks, daughter of Clark Wilson Blacklock, son of Richard Tyrus and Agnes Porter Blacklock. I would love to hear from you. Thanks

363 Massey S. McCullough

Massey S. McCullough, featured in many of your photos, was my father. Sincerely, Mike McCullough

364 Alfred Lewis Yackie

Hi DeadFred: I have reunited another "lost baby" that I posted on your website! This makes 4 reunions for me, so far. I am returning the original photo of Alfred Lewis Yackie to his son and daughter-in-law (Barbara & Al Yackie). Alfred Sr's wife is still alive, too! They have no baby photos of him, so they are pretty happy to have this. Thank you for what you do! Robin Palmer

365 John Kennan

I am a Great Grandson of John Kennan Jr. and have quite a bit of research on the Kennans, back to 1728 in Virginia. Please contact me if you have an interest. I have the picture already through the Shiloh museum. Thanks

What do you think these fellows are going to do with those pumpkins? Let us know at spooking@deadfred.com.

Subject: Move Cabinet Photo On Bidville

Author: nancy Date:   9/23/2004 4:45 pm CDT There are many nice old Cabinent photo listed on bidville.com If you are doing genealogy you should atake a look. The images are all nice and clear.

Subject: Search

Author: mildred day Date:   9/23/2004 7:06 pm CDT I am looking for the parents of Alexander McKee born 1792 some where in Pa. Also parents of William Getz (Gotes) born 1815 in Va. these are my GGG Grandfathers mday251@msn.com

Subject: rushin

Author: joan folsom Date:   9/27/2004 8:38 pm CDT looking for any photos on rushin surname out of ga. 1800 1930

Subject: slovenian roots

Author: urska Date:   9/30/2004 9:31 am CDT surnames grosel, resnik, koren, kerin, mrva, lesjak, sajovic, brvar, lipovsek, kraus, muller and many many more..... anyone researching the same surnames?

Subject: tishomingo co, ms

Author: chuck floyd Date:   10/3/2004 11:10 am CDT Surnames; Ables, Floyd, Hicks, Tucker, Felker, Gattis(Gaddis), Brumley, Davis, Newcombe, Mayo

Subject: OLD PHOTOS

Author: betty mclaughlin Date:   10/10/2004 1:35 pm CDT To All: Next time i see old photos i will buy them at the flea markets, I have always said how terrible it is to see people throw them away. Even my mother wanted to throw pictures of my dad away because she was divorced from him and i said NO and now they are in my possession. She even had naturalization papers from her family that were all rolled up and in 2002, I had them framed behind glass by a professional and they hang in my computer room. I even went so far as to find out how we were related to these people. I would like to try and help anyone on the board, if i can to find out who the pictures belong to. I have responded to a few today , but try to keep your emails up to date if we are to find you. Thank you for letting me post my message here today. Betty Facciuto McLaughlin

Subject: Gus H Center (Etching of Trees)

Author: Gwen Upton Date:   10/15/2004 4:41 pm CDT I have an etching I bought at a flea Market. It was done by Gus H Center. I believe he lived in Greeley Colorado after searching census. It was also bought not far from Greeley. If you are related and would like it, I would just ask the $9.00 I paid for it.

Subject: Merced high school '37 yearbook

Author: Donald Pelton Date:   10/18/2004 3:55 am CDT I have scanned a copy of the Merced California High School yearbook for 1937. If your ancestor went to Merced High in the year 1937 he or she would be in there. Donald Pelton

Dead Ringers

Amanda thought the subject of this photo looked a little bit like... well, we'll let you guess.

Send us your guess at ringers@deadfred.com
Do you enjoy the Dead Ringers section of our newsletter? If so, please let us know. We are considering removing it from future issues.

Amanda thought last month's Dead Ringer looked a little like Colin Firth:

Here's who you thought he looked like ordered by number of responses:

Omar Sharif
John Cleese
Samuel Clemens
Matthew Broderick
Robert Downy Jr.
Dr. Bombay from Bewitched
John DeLancy (Q from Star Trek)
Sean Hannity

Emily Croom's Ladies Club

At an antiques shop in Angleton, Texas, in February 2001, I came across some 19th-century photos, two of which especially attracted my attention. One was labeled Aunt Mary Davis Dunn; the other, Nettie Walkup. Both photos had been made in Sedalia, Missouri, and I wondered whether the two women had been related or knew each other. I purchased their photos and decided to learn more about them. With census records, I determined that they not only lived near each other but were probably related by marriage, with Mary's daughter marrying Nettie's brother.

As this new interest led to more antiquing outings, my husband laughingly called the growing collection my Ladies Club. Each state became a chapter in the "organization," which now has over 400 members from 36 states, Canada, and England. The criteria for membership, with a few exceptions, is that the lady's photo must be labeled with her name or information that could lead to positive identification and the location of the photographer or the woman's residence. Since such photos are often sold in lots in estate sales, a number of the ladies are proving to belong to extended family groups. Amazingly, some club members from different antiques shops share maiden or ancestral surnames with other members from the same state, and they may turn out to be related to each other.

One advantage of doing genealogical research on these ladies is the excuse to research in states where my own ancestors did not live, states in which I wouldn't otherwise be researching. For example, to date I've not identified any New England ancestors, but I'm enjoying researching the New England members of the Ladies Club.

The Texas chapter includes a family for whom numerous photos, sold in California, ended up in a Houston antiques shop. After researching the family in depth, I have met a descendant and have given her early 20th-century photos of her mother and grandparents, along with a summary of my research on them. She says I know more about her family than she does.

Research is showing that some of the Ladies Club members had no children of their own, or no grandchildren and later descendants. Two examples are Sallie (McElroy) Knott, wife of a post-Civil War Congressman and governor of Kentucky in the 1880s, and Nettie (Hyde) Wait, wife of an early 20th-century Kansas newspaper editor, for whom she worked as a reporter. In such cases, I feel I have been appointed to tell their stories, for who else will?

Yes, of course, plenty of my own ancestors are waiting patiently in line to be researched. However, there's something compelling about seeing a face and wanting to provide the details that give the person an identity and a life.

Emily Croom is a veteran genealogist (35 years and counting) and author of articles, family histories, and how-to books about genealogy, including Unpuzzling Your Past (4th ed., Betterway Books, 2001), A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your African-American Ancestors (Betterway Books, 2003, with co-author Franklin Smith), The Genealogist's Companion and Sourcebook (2d ed., Betterway Books, 2003), and The Sleuth Book for Genealogists (Betterway Books, 2000). She also teaches the genealogy class "Unpuzzling Your Past" online at Barnes and Noble University (www.unpuzzling.com).

Emily Croom at the FGS Conference in Austin, TX

What's New In The Database

Recognize These Faces?

Here is a small sample of our latest Mystery photo submissions
(Click on photo for record and larger view)

http://www.deadfred.com/surnamePersR.php?ID=46674 Ruth Photo Number: 28832 Massachusetts United States Comments: This photo was taken either just before or during WWII. My dad (Walter Ryder) had this photo of this lady and I never knew he was married before he married my mom. So I think this is a photo of his first wife and their child.

http://www.deadfred.com/surnamePersR.php?ID=46681 c1915 Two men - National Express Photo Number: 28839 USA Comments: I received this photo from my father. He does not know who these men are. Any help will be appreciated. Searchable Keywords: National Express

http://www.deadfred.com/surnamePersR.php?ID=46878 1938 Possible School Group Photo Number: 28998 Chapultepec, Mexico Comments: Taken May 1938 -Photos were found in a junk store and donated to DeadFred by Diane Lunow. To see all the donated photos type LUNOW in the "search comments" section on DeadFred's home page.

http://www.deadfred.com/surnamePersR.php?ID=46882 Mabel Photo Number: 29002 Pittsburg, KS Comments: Written on back "Papa & Mamma Mable sitting on chair arm Me *Viola* standing" also lightly in pencil H.H. Halley Tuson Tex. Photos were found in a junk store and donated to DeadFred by Diane Lunow. To see all the donated photos type LUNOW in the "search comments" section on DeadFred's home page.

http://www.deadfred.com/surnamePersR.php?ID=46928 Children Photo Number: 29040 Huntingdale, MO United States Comments: Photo found in Mr. Audra Hodges home in Huntingdale, MO

http://www.deadfred.com/surnamePersR.php?ID=46979 Photo Number: 29076 Comments: Commentary on fold out card; 6 different sets of handwriting "You and the night and the music bring back that romance to me." T Geuges [?] Dear Joan, Dimitri is rushing me, so just lots of luck and don't work to hard at school. Alice Jersey, Jersey, wherefore art thou not New York! Glark [?] Could be G Corh/k From one Joan to Another Joan Chesley 2 {drawing of coffee cup} Joan. We {drawing of 'hat'} sic a good {drawing of clock} at the Old Knick and Penn Station. I enjoyed your co since the photo did not flatter you, may I say that you metamorphosed from the witch in Hansel & Gretel to a movie star as soon as you stepped out of the photograph. Silly Peter

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