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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'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!

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.

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...

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!.

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

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.

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

Caz xxxx

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

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.

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