Family Tree Frog

Alan Burnett provides us with this blogging meme from Sepia Saturday today.  He says:  Now, what on earth is going on here? What we do know is that the photograph - which is our Sepia Saturday theme image this week - comes from the Flickr Commons collection of Miami University Library. The title is "Push ball competition at Miami University freshman-sophomore contest 1910", but I, for one, have no idea what push ball is! But with Sepians all over the world following our weekly theme prompts, no doubt someone will have some explanation of this strange scene. I have no idea which direction to push you in when thinking of ways of linking this photograph to one of the old images in your collections - but those Sepians all over the world have a knack of finding the most obscure links between a large bouncing ball and, for example, a photograph of Uncle Jack in his bowler hat. I have heard of Tunnel Ball but not Push Ball.  This photo reminded me of beautiful baby por...

1912 Tom McLoughlin - Football Team  - Tom is at the end of the back  row on the right Family history is not complete without a football photo is it? Even from 1912. Not quite sure where this is taken - I suspect Bathurst. Back of postcard The back of the postcard reads in my mother's handwriting on the left Circa 1912  Tom 14 years  Football Team  Tom in sub junior I'm not sure whose handwriting is on the right hand side - maybe my grandfather's.   It says  M McLoughlin  4 Lamrock Terrace  E Orange. M McLoughlin could have been Tom's sister Margaret or his sister Mary or his mother Margaret. Thomas, aka Tom, my maternal grandfather was born 7 July 1898 in William Street Bathurst. I would love to know what Grandad's role was on the team. He's wearing a suit and a tie.  And his boots are nicely polished. Is he the manager?  A coach? A fan? What do you think? Was ...