These old photos speak volumes don't they about the lifestyle of yester year, so different from the world we live into day where every thing is bigger and brighter and comes in more colours.
Transylvania, Holland, Alsace, Poland, England, Germany, Lithuania and Texas all contain soil upon which ancestors dwelt; Farmers, beekeepers, shepherds, tailors, blacksmiths, salesmen, clergy, judges, and doctors.
As I research ancestral lines I discover some ancestors celebrated Hanuka, others Christmas, and still others the Green Corn Ceremony; Jewish, Methodist Episcopalian, Puritan, Christian Scientist, Mennonite, Choctaw, and Cherokee.
I shall never find the records for my distant ancestors who either came to this continent by crossing the Land Bridge, or originally emerged from the Nanih Waiya in Mississippi.
I delve through obituaries, microfilm depositories, internet databases; I interview relatives, and rummage through attics.
What I find doesn't alter who I am; It illuminates the divergent, yet still intersecting paths of my ancestors.
4 comments:
That's one pretty old picture. I wonder who are they...
Happy WW!
These old photos speak volumes don't they about the lifestyle of yester year, so different from the world we live into day where every thing is bigger and brighter and comes in more colours.
What a wonderful photo! The woman's hat is very interesting.
Photographs may be bigger, brighter, and more colorful - but I'm not sure the world necessarily is.
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