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 […]
This is my great-grandmother Zelda. She came to New York from Russia around 1918. Shorty after she made the Bronx her home, she met and married her distant cousin with whom she had her only child, Natalie (my grandma). Natalie died at only 39, leaving my mom and her siblings motherless much too young. That’s […]
My Pappaw’s Air Force photos are my favorites. There are so many, but the one on the left is a postcard from 1942 to my Mammaw, back home in South Carolina, and it reads: “Darling, now don’t laugh, it’s me, but I don’t believe it. Get a load of those eyes, I’ve taken up hypnotizing. […]
I never had the chance to meet my grandfather. He died a few years before I was born. I am named after him, Claudio Majorana. All that I know about him comes from stories my father told me since I was a kid. I know that my grandfather was an engineer and Sicilian Politician. But […]
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