Family Tree Frog

Today is Week 7 of a 15 month project inspired by Julie Goucher of Angler's Rest. What were their names? Where were they from? Were they related? – Cousins perhaps Where were they born, another Country or state/area Photos What did they do? Did you know them? What was your relationship with them? If you didn't know them have you researched about them? I have written about my grandparents quite a bit on my blog already so I apologise for any repetition. I only remember two grandparents when growing up: one from each side of the family as the other two had died before I was born.  Let's tackle them one side at a time. Maternal Grandmother My maternal grandmother's name varies according to the certificates you read. On her birth certificate she is called Helen Kate  Forfar. On her marriage certificate she is called Katherine Helen Forfar. On her death certificate she is called Kathleen Helen McLoughlin. Kit (as she...

Some times you just need to be alone. You need space : space to think, space to breathe, space to contemplate your place in the great scheme of things. What better way to find such space than to get into a boat and row out into the middle of the sea. This is what this young lady did back in 1900 somewhere near Estonia. And her trip into the middle of nowhere was recorded and is preserved for ever in the Flickr Commons stream of the National Archives of Estonia. For Sepia Saturday posters who like a theme, there is any combination of girl, boat, middle and nowhere. Sepia Saturday strikes again! "Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." Kenneth Grahame Wind in the Willows. Have you ever read Wind in the Willows ?  I didn't really read it.  I listened to it and still have the LP adapted and produced by Toby Robertson for the Argo Record Company .  There were two records but I...

What is precious, tattered, torn and handed down? To so many of us Sepians, the answer is photographs - family photographs passed on from generation to generation are the currency of Sepia Saturday. But occasionally other things are handed down - and in so many cases it is the family bible that becomes the linchpin of family history. So for Sepia Saturday 187 (post your posts on or around Saturday 27 July 2013) we focus our attention on family bibles. But in the best traditions of Sepia Saturday themes, you can interpret the theme in any way you want : books, lettering, printing, hand-me-downs  ...  they all fall within our theme this week. Mybush , 30 Valley Road, Springwood 1954 Welcome to this week's Sepia Saturday post.  I'm taking books as the theme rather than bibles.  We have beautiful family bibles but they are not very old.  I have already blogged about them here. I have so much that is precious, tattered, torn and handed down. I hav...

The theme for this week's Sepia Saturday post is smoking and anything else associated with the prompt image on the blog e.g. black cats, vending machines and so on. I am kind of excited about this theme because it gives me a chance to highlight an interesting series of photos found in my maternal grandfather's collection i.e. those belonging to Thomas McLouglin (1898 - 1982).      Seated Smoker  I don't know who is who in any of these photos or whether any of them are my grandfather.  It's hard to tell.  I suspect that they are friends, brothers or cousins.  I have a memory of my mother saying that her cousin was a photographer and there does seem to be a lot of posing going on and experimenting with light and contrast so, maybe her cousin's father owned the photography business first and then passed it on to his son.   Spivs Here are some more photos of the likely lads.  They look rather sharp don't yo...