I just found this post and the photo. It is very timely because here in my neck of the woods the apple blossoms usually come out near Mother's Day, but all signs are that they will be early this year. I just saw a beekeeper unloading some of these wooden hives at the orchard nearby.
The shape of the print, the slight distortion in the photo image and the black at one edge makes it look very similar to photos in my family's collection which date from the 1910s.
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.
3 comments:
Neat picture!
I just found this post and the photo. It is very timely because here in my neck of the woods the apple blossoms usually come out near Mother's Day, but all signs are that they will be early this year. I just saw a beekeeper unloading some of these wooden hives at the orchard nearby.
The shape of the print, the slight distortion in the photo image and the black at one edge makes it look very similar to photos in my family's collection which date from the 1910s.
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