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🌱 Planting seeds of family history - one photo, one story at a time. #artofrecollection 📃 "In the end, we'll all become stories.". ~M.Atwood

I love this photo. The quick press of the shutter

I love this photo. The quick press of the shutter release captured a tenderness between these two that immediately drew me into their story. At first, I thought this might be a coming-home-with-a-new-baby photo. I was wrong.

On the back, Goldie wrote, "Glen and his girlfriend...."

In this album, there are snapshots of Glen on the farm, growing up, the second oldest of the Howard children. There are also formal portraits of all Goldie's siblings - all except Glen. Whatever happened to Glen?

In the census records, beginning in 1930, he is recorded as living and working his Aunt Georgia Dinsmore's farm. Aunt Georgia never married, and I can imagine having her nephew run the place for her was a welcome relief.

So what about the girlfriend in this photo? The note on the back includs her name, but I'm not going to share it. You see, I found her. In 1935, she married someone else.

I don't know the story. All I know is this photo was special enough to Grandma Goldie that she saved it. It was meaningful enough to my father-in-law that he included it in his family album. Therefore, this sweet and fragile moment-in-time is a keeper. For always.
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Ooooo, another day, another family line popping up

Ooooo, another day, another family line popping up, begging for attention. However, I've learned from all you professional genealogists/family historians. This time, I didn't chase the Research Rabbit. Instead, I grabbed my research log, recorded the tempting new info and set it aside to fully research later.

To give you a taste of what is to come...

This is Charles Kemmish. He was Grandma Goldie's great grandfather, who, along with his wife and 6 children, came to America on the Golconda. They sailed from Liverpool to New Orleans and their seventh child, a girl, was born during the voyage.

The journey the family made once they arrived in America is the story that beckons - a story for another day.
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(Connecting dots: One of Charles' daughters, Ruth, married Wallace Dinsmore. Ruth and Wallace's daughter, Nina Ruth, married William Samuel Howard.)
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I appreciate formal portraits. I do. But snapshots

I appreciate formal portraits. I do. But snapshots like this - these are my favorites. Snapshots capture folks just being themselves. Sometimes snapshots just capture folks.... 😳☺️🥰

Grandma Goldie is on the left. On the back, in her beautiful young woman penmanship is written, "Mr. Carl Arvilla at a picnic near Worthington."

I'm guessing this was about 1917 and that Worthington is the one in Minnesota. But, ummmmm, Grandma Goldie, who is Carl? ☺️
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These self-made photo corners are working beautifu

These self-made photo corners are working beautifully! Strips of archival safe paper, cut into strips 1.5" x 4" and folded to fit the photo frame, are proving to be the key to recreating the album I'm disassembling and digitizing.

I'm using commercial, self-adhesive photo corners everywhere else but the thickness of these framed photos was a dilemma. I didn't want to permanently adhere them to the page. I didn't want to remove the photo from the frame. These self-made mega-corners are the answer - plus I can use up some scrapbook paper I had on hand.

It's a win-win! 👍🥰

BTW. This is Grandma Goldie's little sister, Gladys Howard her husband, Edward "Ellis" Stevens.
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Well, that took a minute! I appreciate the handwri

Well, that took a minute! I appreciate the handwritten captions: "Great Aunt Cora" and "Great Uncle Ernie" but those names were not familiar to me.

This album was labeled "Howard Family". And it is. It begins with a photo of William Samuel Howard and his wife, Nina Ruth Dinsmore. By now I recognize the Howard family names - Cora and Ernie weren't among them.

I had to set aside the "Howard Family" label.

Had to think beyond the words and think relationships.

Had to research another branch on the family tree and yes, it took more than a minute. 😂

Turns out, "Ernie" was Alfred Ernest Dinsmore, Nina's brother. Cora was Ernie's wife - Goldie and Glen's uncle and aunt.

As I dug in to learn who Ernie and Cora were, some exciting tidbits of family history came to light. But since there is another magnetic album to digitize, research, and share, an album titled "Dinsmore and Distant Relatives", I'll save those tidbits in anticipation of photos and memorabilia I'll discover when I open the cover of the next album.

I am 6 pages away from completing this album. I had hoped to finish last week, but the "minute" I invested in finding Ernie and Cora set me back on my timeline, but ahead on upcoming Dinsmore research.

Family history is a journey - not just a destination. It is immersing yourself in the lives of the people who came before you - listening to voices quieted by the passage of time - even when it takes more than a minute. 🥰
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