This portrait is so important to me and my family. My aunt restored it from the original negative. It was taken in 1970, when my family still lived in Cambodia. This reminds us of life in Cambodia before my grandmother fled to America with her children, seeking a new life and an escape from war. […]
My mom in 1955 with me and my sister. She was a true Texas girl. Born in 1931 during the Great Depression, she reached her teen years during WWII. She was well-acquainted with doing without. But here, in the mid-1950s, she must have felt she was blessed with everything: a new family, a man she […]
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 […]
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 […]
As part of our ongoing partnership with experts in the family history community, our team reached out to Maureen Taylor, the Photo Detective who can help you solve your family photo mysteries. She’s not only a genealogist, she’s also a veritable Sherlock Holmes of family photographs. In this post, Taylor shares her tips to discovering […]
Many of my fondest memories of my childhood took place at my grandmother’s house. Each weekend, my entire family would descend upon her home to enjoy each other’s company and a home-cooked meal. It’s been almost nine years since I lost my grandmother; there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think of […]
This is one of my parents’ wedding photos, circa 1943 in New York City at the Hotel Roosevelt. They’re the couple on the left. Guy Lombardo and his orchestra were playing in the hotel this particular night. When Mr. Lombardo was told that a young couple in the room had just been married, he played […]
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 […]
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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