Posts Tagged ‘mystery photographs’

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This photograph came from the collection of Julie Martin.  This couple is connected to the Newberry-Morris-Jenkins families and was among other portraits taken in Utah.  It appears to be a marriage portrait.  Do you know this couple?

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During our search for ancestral faces, we received a copy of this photograph which was taken in the 1800s.  We hoped it was a photograph of ancestors Jerome and Mary Watrous from Terre Haute in Henderson County, Illinois.  However, we have not been able to identify those in the photograph.  Having never seen the face […]

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During our quest to find ancestral faces in the counties of Henderson and Hancock in Illinois, we received this copy of a photograph.  We cannot match it to the face of our ancestor Jerome Timothy Watrous 1818-1904.   It is on file at the Historical Society in LaHarpe, Hancock  County, Illinois.  I really don’t like faces […]

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When our relative, a native of Richfield, Utah died . . . her belongings included many photographs of women she had labeled as “my dear Richfield friends”.  Only one photograph had a name or any information written on it.  It was the woman in the lower left of the last display of photographs.  Her photograph […]