While helping my father, @fotogene32, clean out his house to move I came across lots of his old photos. The house, in Whitestone, Queens, belonged to his parents before he lived there, and this was taken nearby, at Fort Totten, by the Throgs Neck bridge. It’s my grandfather, Anton, and my sister Nina in 1966 […]
I admit it. I’m a photo hoarder. In fact, I bet I’m not the only one. That’s right, I’m looking at you! But don’t worry, you’re not alone. Millions of people feel like they’re drowning in a sea of digital photos. So many of us are struggling to wade through our digital photos that there’s an entire organization dedicated to […]
My mother Gladys in Brooklyn, circa 1940s. She was born in St. Marks Hospital in NYC in 1922 and grew up in a household of extended family members, even sharing a bed with a maternal aunt until she was 16. My mother suffered from a variety of medical issues throughout her life, some due to […]
My parents kissing after my mom graduated med school, with my dad using her diploma to tell my uncle to shove off. My mom and dad met at a Mennonite high school, while they were both dating other people. They were on a picnic double-date one day outside my grandparents’ house, and my mom came […]
Meet my grandpa Henry and my great aunt Charlotte. They journeyed along with their parents from Gotha, Germany to the United States in October of 1921. My grandpa was just 7 months old and Charlotte was 4 years old when their ship arrived at Ellis Island. My great aunt Charlotte had several health problems from […]
This is a photograph of my father Cees Moerman as a teenager in the late 1950’s. He was born in Amsterdam on 20 March 1946 and sadly passed away in Luxembourg in November 2008. My father and I had a troubled relationship. He was an alcoholic, and his drinking was eventually the cause of his […]
June 16, 2016. Today would have been my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary, but dad died in 2007. He was 10 years older than my mum, they met because dad commuted into London on the same train as my grandfather. However, my dad was already married by that point and had three children. Apparently, mum took […]
Pictured here are four generations of exceptional women from my family. My mother is on the left, rocking the white dress. Her name was Jessica Hobby Catto. My sister Heather is the baby in my great grandmother’s lap. My great grandmother Emma was from Kileen, Texas and died shortly after this picture was taken. And […]
Here’s to the picture takers, the family historians, the memory keepers, the watchful storytellers who document our days. They remind us that ordinary life is actually quite extraordinary. My grandpa took selfies before selfies were cool. This is him in the early 80’s experimenting with his Minolta and long exposure self portraits. The tripod and […]
My Oma on a hike with her friend somewhere in the Alps in the 1930s, maybe late 1920s. Her name was Rosl Liebisch and she lived from 1915-2009. I don’t know much about that line of my family yet, but here and there I have discovered little stories. My Oma was friends with her employer, […]
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