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I'm so excited---mum has been "over home" in Ireland and one of my aunties who knows I'm doing our tree has sent a load of old photos back with her for me to copy--don't know who they are of yet as I won't see her for a couple of weeks when i get my holiday week... can't wait
Carol

Yesterday I was given a link to a webpage which has a photo of my gt grandmothers sister. Unfortunately it is a group photo and her face is partially blocked but I am sure I can see the resemblance to my grandmother (her niece).
I have a photo of another gt grandmother with her daughter and a sons daughter and an older woman who we presume is her mother, inset into the photo.
Also one taken the day before another couple of gt grandparents sailed for NZ in 1864. It includes his father, 2 of his brothers and their wives and the mother of one of the wives, one of his sisters (his twin), and 2 of his workmates. I am so grateful to the person who named everybody on it.

hello all
last week my cousin who i have,nt seen since 1946 sent me aphoto of her mum who was my dads sister she was born in 1895,and my m.i.l said i look like her just wish i had more photos but when i divoriced my first hubby he burned all the photos of my parents and grandparents so i dont have any at all
joycexx

Thankyou everyone, I have just read this whole thread through and am moved and fascinated.

Caz xxxx

I feel longing - to meet the lady in the picture, a very close resemblance facially to myself, my cousin and one of my daughters - my 3x great grandmother born ca 1789, Margaret Cochrane. Married (possibly Leonard) Dobbin. Margaret was born in Scotland according to family record and was left motherless in 1800 to raise 3 younger sibs with her cousin. By then they were in Belfast, and many years later, in her 90's, Margaret wrote several letters to her granddaughter - my great grandmother - describing some activities during the Irish rebellion as they witnessed it, eg human heads mounted on poles above the market, causing a flyfest on the vegetables, which she then didn't want to buy. The originals of the letters have been deposited in the Trinity College archives, Dublin. How I would love to meet her and hear more of her stories, she was obviously intelligent - judging by the language and composition of her letters.
Then I'd like to meet my paternal great grandmother,her photo is the spitting image of my father, to ask about her life and some of the so-far unsolveable mystery she left behind!!
Mostly I feel a strong connection, how grateful I am for the few very old photos I have; also that I had my mother name as many as she could before she died.

I have a photo of my great great great grandmother (born in 1824) as an elderly lady and she was the double of my grandmother!

Carole

Scared! only kidding not all of them there are one or 2 that are proper scary looking, mainly because they all look so miserable but thats what it was like in vict times.
One of my ggreatgrandma is an example, it was hung in the little bedroom of my grandmas house and when i was little and used to stay overnight i turned it over!.

hi everyone

i found a cousin on genes who was my partners fathers sisters daughter

she very kindly had copied loads of my partners ancestors

including one of his father wen he was about six ,,, which brought a tear to his eye

becouse my partner never saw his father he died before my partner was born , his mum was 6 and half months pregnant wen he died...
but what struck us was the great likeness between his dad and our son which was nice and also a photo of his grandmother wen she was fourteen , wen we showed are neighbour it she thort it was a photo of our daughter... so we know were they got there looks from and both were very good looking

but without genes reunited and me doing his family tree .. we would have never seen them

i,m so so glad i joined now he has album full of photo,s he would never have seen...

Oh thanks for the info on the bombazine material everyone....yes, i think I can picture it now...seems to be what my g grandma is wearing in the family photo.

I've got a photo of my great great gran on my dad's side, 2 of her daughters, 1 grandaughter and 1 great grandchild. My Great Great Gran looks like a Greek old woman and her 2 daughters - well lets just say I'm glad I don't take after them!

Also have a lovely photo of my dads dad as a boy. My dad was orphaned at the age of 9 when his dad passed and only got this photo a few years ago. Oh eck I'm filling up must go.

i have an old picture of my dad as a little boy aged abt 4-5, and a picture of my son of abt the same age and the resemblence is so uncanny!! they have the exact same expression on there faces! except the hair is a different style----dads looks as tho his mum [my nan] has put a bowl on his head and cut round it!!!!

i am always compairing those 2 photos---even one of dad aged 18, i can see my son in him! he's 30 now.

when my son is doing any handywork like decorating or something like that i can see dad in him, cos my son is a perfectionist just like dad was!

think he's come back to look after me or keep an eye on me!LOL

Chris.

Well I have a quite newly found a photo of my great gran and three of her daughters and two of their children.
It has pride of place, love it, so many similarities when it comes to features. Not making them our features if you know what I mean. Real similarities.
Have a photo of my dad's half sister and it is me! So strange, she died in 1969. My uncle was emotional when he showed it to my family because of the likeness and my little boy said, '' Why are you in black and white Mummy?''
My life and hers so far in many ways have been far too similar. Just hope I don't end my days as young as she was.
Bless you Florence.

It's not funny!

lol Carol.....

For many years we have had a photo of someone my late father called his 'Mad Aunt', as children we thought she looked really scary!

I don't think she looks so scary now, good thing, because I see her every time I look in the mirror!

Lol Jeff :))
I love looking at old pictures, just sorry I havn't got more of them. But dad keeps finding new ones, so I am hoping he still has a little box somewhere with more piccies !!!

Ann xxx

My cousin in Australia recently sent me a picture of my grandad who died in 1919.
It's the first one i've ever seen.
Now I know where I get my good looks from.

Jeff pmsl

just googled it an it is a mixture of silk and worsted or silk and cotton.......a bit like our poly-cotton mixtures today I suppose...

I've got one of three generations on my mums side. My Grandfather, great grandfather and great great grandfather...my grandfather is about 3 and hadn't yet been 'breeched', he is in a little sailor suit and hat, with the cheekiest grin you ever saw.