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, […]
Someone started all of our stories. Meet the two whose love led to a beautiful family! Today, my parents Sterlyn and Anita Denney celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary. They married in Lakewood Heights, a suburb of Atlanta, GA, In 1956. They grew up in this idyllic neighborhood and knew of each other, but did not […]
In 2005, my two remaining grandparents passed away within two weeks of each other. My parents travelled back to the UK for the funerals and returned with a large collection of photos, documents and a couple of small mementos. Among my mother’s family papers was a key that unlocked the door to her past: her parent’s […]
The comedian Louis CK has wryly but wisely observed, “Out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead.” And of the roughly 108 billion people who have ever lived, almost all of them are forgotten. We don’t even know their many of their names, let alone what they looked like, did […]
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