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25
Mar

My Southern Family Roots Run Deep

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You’re never too old to have a little fun! Meet me grandmother, Cornelia II, who taught me so much…about bourbon. I’m Cornelia the IV, named after her. And my daughter, born only a few months ago, is also named Cornelia! My grandmother was a remarkable lady, but it’s the “Gentleman” that’s also worth noticing. When […]

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24
Mar

This Adorable Couple Forged True Love that Lasted a Lifetime

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This adorable couple is my maternal Grandmother and Granddad. They met in the Spring of 1939 when my Granddad was on a date with her older sister. These two started dating soon after. They got married in Reno, Nevada in December of 1941, one week after Pearl Harbor. They went on to raise 6 children. […]

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22
Mar

This Family Photo Captures How I Learned to Travel

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This photo defines the way I learned to travel — cheaply. With little money growing up, my parents made adventuring about road trips, exploring on foot and free entry. It taught me that you don’t need much to enjoy and capture this big world. Ours heart becomes full with new sights, sounds and smells, all […]

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21
Mar

This Old Family Photo Proves Why Ancestry is Pretty Cool

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Ancestry is pretty darn cool. Here’s a family picture I found tonight that I’ve never seen before. My great-grandfather Adolf Koerber and 6 of his 7 sons. Aren’t they handsome!? These are my grandmother’s brothers, so they’re my great-uncles. My grandmother talked about them all the time, so it’s so fun to see them now. […]

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18
Mar

My Mother Raised Me to Be Strong, Courageous and Confident

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When Mom dressed us, fed us, took care of everything…remember?! In this old family photo, I’m grateful for Mom dressing me in the height of 70’s fashion & not Garanimals. 🙂 My single mother worked two, sometimes three, jobs but I never, ever knew we were money-poor, as we were so rich in love. Looking […]

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14
Mar

Picturing my Dad as an Adventurous Little Boy

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Finding more family treasures every day. Here’s my dad in a tree on Euclid Heights Blvd. Cleveland Heights, OH. August 1931. Five months later, he’d lose his father to cancer. My dad is now 90 years old and would love that a photo from his childhood is being shared and enjoyed by people around the […]

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11
Mar

My Mother’s High School Portrait is Among My Favorite Family Photographs

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Mom graduated from Lincoln High School in Sioux Falls, SD in 1975. At the time she thought she’d major in interior design. She ended up in child development and worked for a long time as the Director of Child Life at Children’s Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. That’s where my sister and I were born. Mom […]

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10
Mar

A Vintage Snapshot of Classic Childhood Antics in an International Setting

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This photo was taken around 1937 in Beirut. My mum, Celia, is torturing her big brother, Peter, with my grandmother, Elsie, looking on and sister, Alison, on the left. I love the way this captures a spontaneous, silly kids moment. My mother’s British/American family lived in Lebanon for three generations. My Quaker missionary great-grandparents, their […]

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09
Mar

One Antique Photo of my Grandparents Proves they Risked Everything for Lasting Love

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This photograph of my grandparents makes my heart flutter. They were not supposed to fall in love; my grandmama was disowned from her family for abandoning her pre-arranged groom-to be. She lost everything to come to a country where everyone hated her and the way she looked. But instead of being bitter, she taught my […]

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08
Mar

One Photographer Gives You a Chance to Say What You Always Wished You’d Said

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We all know the feeling. There was something we wish we’d said to someone special. Now they’re gone and we can’t go back in time to tell them what we wanted them to know…what they needed to know. Or, can we? One photographer gives you a chance to say what you always wish you’d said to your […]

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