Monday, December 31, 2018

Photo Number 3163

This is a New Years Eve photo from the antique shop in Pequot Lakes Minnesota.

New years eve 1949 Peq lakes ant

New years eve 1949 Peq lakes ant back

This was taken New Year 1949 what a night.   Jerry + Terry  1/1/50

Happy New Years Eve!

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Sunday, December 30, 2018

Full Circle 174

This Full Circle began with an email from Lincoln wondering if I still had this photo because  he was a friend of a family member.  Lincoln asked his friend about it.

Turns out is my friend’s grandfather. He is very excited to see the photo. He really loved his grandfather.

I mailed the photo.

Oram CraigsNumber 1809 (2)

Oram Craigs back Number 1809 (2)

Oram R Lawry Photo Number 1809

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Saturday, December 29, 2018

Full Circle 173

This Full Circle began with comments left on the blog.

From Edith:

What a wonderful surprise to find photo number 2036 during a random search on my family today. I had to send you my thanks. . I have the same postcard sent to my grandmother by “Susie” but there was no reference to the name of the baby and I didn't know which one it was until I read it on your site. Ruby Loretta was my 1st cousin 1x removed. The actual children in this family were Richard Stuart, Rena May, Pearl Amanda, Thelma Katherine, Robert Leonard, and Ruby Loretta. I knew Richard Stuart, a favorite cousin of my Dads and I have met Robert Leonard's son. Arthur, Rebecca, Mary and Will were siblings of the children's father, my great Uncle Dick, Susie's husband. Rebecca was my grandmother. Your wonderful act of sharing these photographs has brought a happy surprise to me and my family. Thank You so much.

Ruby Loretta DL ant NUmber 2036 (2)

Ruby Loretta DL ant back Number 2036 (2)


Ruby Loretta Casteel  Photo Number 2036

Thank You so much. I have emails in to my sisters to see if they would like the photo. Actually, I sometimes correspond with Suzie's grandson and will also check to see if he would like it. Otherwise, there's me. There's a chance I will meet others from this family connection. I don't think the last generation were in touch like they were in Suzie's day.

I mailed the photo.

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Friday, December 28, 2018

Full Circle 172

This Full Circle began with a comment left on the blog by Chris.

Hi Folks - I stumbled across this page by accident during a web search and am glad I did! I am related to the Aanund Flaat pictured here. MJM and LarsI are correct about his identity and emigration from Evje in Norway to Bygland, MN. I am not sure about the connection with the Knutsons - I am not aware of a family connection but maybe there was a business connection or they were just friends.
I am in contact with a descendant of Aanund Flaat who may be interested in the physical photograph
.

Ben Knudsen and a Float JG Number 2469 (2)

Ben Knutson and Aamund Flaat and a unknown Photo Number 2469

Chris put me in touch with his relative Nate and the photo was mailed off.

Hi Connie,

I looked and I do not actually have that particular photo.  If you could send it to me that would be great!

thanks!

Nate

Thanks for stopping by.  If a relative of Bens comes by I can email them a copy.

Thursday, December 27, 2018

Full Circle 171

This Full Circle began with an email.

Hello,

I am a descendant of the Hans and Kari Hanson family that you show in your Photo #2907 on Forgotten Old Photos.  Hans and Kari are my great great grandparents and their son Hans is my great grandfather.

I was very excited to see the photo and would love to purchase it if it is available.  Please let me know.

Thank you,  Cheryl

I mailed the photo to Cheryl.

Hanson GRoup Number 2907 (2)

Hanson Family  Photo Number 2907

Hanson group DL ant back Number 2907 (2)

Cheryl wrote back;

I was thrilled to recieve your package and actually hold the portrait of the Hanson Family in my hands!  What a wonderful piece of family history!  I will treasure it as I am sure my children will one day. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Thank you for sending along your research notes as well there are a few middle names and dates I had not seen before so I can really use the info.

I included facts I have learned about Hans Hanson and Kari in the last email I sent. ( I was reading it when it just disappeared from my computer screen)  Most of the recollections I sent were passed down from their son Peter.  There is no direct information set down by the couple and my great grandfather Hans Jr  died before I was born.  Hans Jr wife Inger was still alive when I was a small child, though she also came over from Norway (1886), age 17 but she did not speak English so I did not know her well.

I am sending you a small compensation for your time and trouble, though it is nothing compared all the happiness you spread.  I will check back on your blog from time to time to see what’s new.  There are some very nice stories from your grateful families. Thank you again for everything.  Sincerely Cheryl

I sent Cheryl an email copy of Mrs. Chris Milsten  Photo Number 2002 and Full Circle Number 156  and she was sure that she is in the photo second row center.  Cheryl hopes to identify all the family members in the group photo.

Mrs Chris Milstin DL antNumber 2002 (2) Full Circle 156

Mrs Chris Milsten

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Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Full Circle 170

This Full Circle began with an email.

Hi Connie,

I have stumbled on your blog a number of times over the years and absolutely love seeing the photos and what you do.  I've done the same thing (on a MUCH smaller scale), but have found it unbelievably satisfying to get photos back to family members and researchers. At any rate, I finally found a photo on your blog that I can get full circle! It's photo number 1976.  I'm helping a friend and her brother put together a family history for their 84-year-old mother for Christmas. They wanted to explore their mother's mother's family because their grandmother didn't know her father until later in life (she was raised by her paternal grandparents). The two girls in the picture would have been my friend's grandmother's first cousins.  Amy (Manthei) Lundquist (1906-1987) lived her entire life in Minneapolis and, as someone mentioned, Fontella (Manthei) Campbell died at the age of 20 in 1927. I'd love to get a high quality scan of the photo to give my friends to present to their mother with the family history.  As you'd probably appreciate, when you want to know more about family, it's fun to put faces with names. And they are a wonderful family who suffered much tragedy.  Their great-grandfather, Frank Chamberlin, was the younger brother of the mother of the pictured girls, Finis (Chamberlin) Manthei.  Amy is named after her grandmother, who died at age 48 leaving several younger children.  Thanks, Connie, and keep up the good work. I love this blog!

Sincerely,

Brendon

I mailed the photo to Brendon on May 19 2018.

Amy and Fontinella Minneapolis DL ant Number 1976 Full Circle 170

Amy and Fontella Manthei  Photo Number 1976

Hi Connie,

I received the photo of Amy and Fontella Manthei yesterday. Thank you!  I'm happy to reimburse you for your expense, and will be mailing that soon.  I appreciated your letter, and if it's okay, I'd love to write back a little "full circle" info when my friend presents the photo to her mother.  This will really make our project for her come to life!  Thanks again.  I absolutely love the work you are doing.

Sincerely,

Brendon

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Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone that reads this blog has a Merry Christmas!

postcard 1911 front

This is a postcard that was mailed in 1911.

I have been working really hard to get the Forgottens all caught up with for the New Year.  I have a number of photos that were mailed and I have no idea if they found their way home safely or not…so I am writing Full Circles for those photos and some Full Circles that were completed this Fall.

Thank you to everyone that reads this blog and for the help researching the names on the photos.  I appreciate you!

Monday, December 24, 2018

Full Circle 169

This Full Circle began with a comment left on the blog.

Ray Sutterland Alex Now and then Number 1453 (2) Full Circle 169

Ray Setterlund  Photo Number 1453

I mailed the photo and followed up with another email asking if it arrived safely?

Yes Ma’am.

I was going to wait to get some detailed info from my Uncle to share with you and your readers.

I really do appreciate your effort and have enjoyed going back through your blog. I have shared the link with several family members, some of which still live up in the frozen tundra. One cousin is in Brainerd.

More to follow

Thanks again Mark

I can always add information from relatives anytime.

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Sunday, December 23, 2018

Full Circle 168

This Full Circle began with an email.

Percy Armstrong DL ant Number 1998 (2)

Percy Armstrong  Photo Number 1998

Hello Connie,

I was searching for records of my relatives to get inspiration for names for my daughter to be born in August and I came across your blog.

Percy is my great-grandfather.  He and Elsie had two daughters, Yvonne and Dorothy.  Dorothy is my grandmother.  She married Joe Dodgen whose son, David, is my father.  My wife and I live in Humboldt, IA which is just 20 minutes from Fort Dodge where Percy and his family lived.  My grandmother passed away a few years ago.  We would love to get this precious photo of her father back into our family.  Please let me know if that is possible.  Thank you! Joel

I mailed the photo.

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Saturday, December 22, 2018

Full Circle 167

This Full Circle began with a comment on the blog from Grandaughter Dora.

Luella Drevlow Fergus Falls ant Number 2683 Full Circle 167

Luella Drewlow  Photo Number 2683

A few days after she left a comment I got an email.

Thank you so much for offering to return the photo to her family. Luella (my Grandma) passed away last Thursday and we will lay her to rest and celebrate her life in just a couple of days. Here is a link to her obituary, so others can learn more about the beautiful (inside & out) woman in the photograph.

She will be greatly missed, and this lost, but now found photo, of her will be greatly treasured.

Thank you so much for the work you do to reunite old photos with the families/friends of those in them.

Dora 

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Friday, December 21, 2018

Full Circle 166

This Full Circle began when I contact Vivian the family historian.

Connie,

Sorry it took so long to get back to you.

While Jack and Florence don't tie into my direct line (Florence is my 8th cousin 3x removed), I'd love to have it and put it on my website (I'm working on a major update now).  If anyone directly related to them contacts me, I would be happy to pass it along to them.

Jack Gudbaur Craigs Number 2506 Full Circle 166

Jack Gudbaur  Photo Number 2506

Jack Gudbaum Craigs back Number 2506

The young boy in the picture is Jack Allen Gudbaur, who appears to be about 6 months old in the picture, putting the date of the picture as Saturday, November 25, 1916 (he was born April 3rd of the same year). Jack grew to join the Army Air Corps during WWII and lived in a number of states.� He married twice (that I know of), divorcing both times. Jack had two sisters and a brother, all of whom outlived him. In fact, one of his sisters and his brother married siblings from another family Jack died at the age of 77 in Oregon


His mother, Florence Arvilla Lombard, who married his father Leo Ross Gudbaur approximately a year before Jack's birth, is the one who sent the postcard  From what she wrote, it sounds like she may have been visiting her parents in Sandpoint, Idaho when the picture was taken - perhaps for the Thanksgiving holiday. She and Leo lived in Sagle, Idaho at the time, not far from Sandpoint. She was also several months pregnant with Jack's sister, which may have been another reason for the visit "home" - to tell her family.


The Lombard side of Florence's family can be traced back to when they arrived in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1630.   Her line moved to Barnstable, then Truro, Massachusetts (on Cape Cod) for a few generations, then north to Maine for a couple more generations, before beginning to move west to Portage County, Wisconsin, where Florence was born. Her parents moved the family to Idaho when she was a young girl.


The postcard was addressed to Leo's father, Alfred Fremont Gudbaur and Leo's stepmother, Ellen Bradley. They married about 15 years prior, when Leo was a young teenager, and lived in Copeland, Idaho at the time - about 55 miles from Florence, Leo and Jack. Ellen died on Halloween in 1925, when a train hit her automobile at a railroad crossing. Alfred also died in an automobile accident 9 years later when he ended up in a ditch with a skull fracture from the crash. Sadly, Leo's only brother also died an accidental death when he was 32 years old (about 8 months after Ellen's death) and broke his neck in a fall.


Jack's father, Leo, died in 1952 at the age of 65. His mother, Florence, died in 1973 at the age of 79.

Gudbar History

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Thursday, December 20, 2018

Full Circle 165

This Full Circle began when a gal left a comment on the blog.

I am the great-grand-daughter of Lewis H. Gilbert, brother of Edgar T. Gilbert. I am not able to identify any direct descendants for Edgar, and he is buried with Lewis and the rest of Lewis's family in Mount Hope Cemetery, as mentioned above. There is a collection of family photos lining the staircase of the house Lewis built in 1907. It would be lovely to reunite Edgar with his family if you still have the photo.

ET Gilbert Craigs Number 1882 Full Circle 165

Edgar T Gilbert Photo Number 1882

I mailed the photo and didn’t hear anything else…so I declare this photo Full Circle.

Connie,

It’s amazing to think this photo made its way from Rochester, NY to Minnesota.  I was actually researching Edgar’s father, Truman Gilbert who was from central New York and an early pioneer to Clintonville (now, South Elgin) Illinois in 1835.  After his first wife died, Truman married another woman, Ann Ryder, who is the mother of Edgar and Lewis.  Both young men and their mother made their way back east to Rochester after Truman died.  Lewis became a dentist and Edgar a manufacturer of “shoe polishers and similar articles.”  Edgar also holds a patent for a cork shoe-liner which was supposed to improve comfort in your shoes/boots.

I currently live in New York City with my husband and 2 children, but my mother still lives in the house where I was raised in Rochester; the house Lewis Gilbert built in 1907.  Since I’ve begun my work on ancestry.com I’ve been labeling several old photographs that were in the attic and lining the staircase wall with them.  So glad you found Edgar!

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Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Full Circle 164

This photo began it’s journey home in August, a reader from Michigan left me a comment with an address and said that Bessie was her Grandmother.
I sent the photo. But I have no idea if it arrived safely. 
I will declare it a Full Circle anyway.
Bessie Craigs Number 2163 (2)
Bessie Dean  Photo Number 2163
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I heard from Alice today December 25 2018
Thank you so much for the picture of my Grandmother, Bessie Mae Dean Hansens. I will send you something to cover the cost of the postage soon.

As for information regarding my grandmother's life:

She was born September12, 1881 and died in October of 1971 (i can't remember the specific date - it was either the 9th or the 16th). She married Henry Hansens in 1914 or 1915 at age 33. She had 4 sons - Elton J. Hansens, Curtis Hansens, Lester Eugene Hansens, and Melvin Henry Hansens. Her youngest son, Melvin, died in WWII. She had 11 grandchildren - Mary Jane, Melvin William, Katheran Louise, Victor Eugene, Helen Mae, Alice Ruth, Phillip Lee (children of Lester), Linda Yvonne, Glen Curtis, John Elton, and Helen Aline (children of Curtis). 

For a woman who married for the first time at age 33, that she had 4 children and lived to see 11 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren was remarkable. 



-- 
Alice 

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Photo Number 3162

These are snapshots from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

Cottage by Merry Go Round D L ant

Cottage by Merry Go Round D L ant back

This was the cottage that was built at the merry go round Dec 1938

Dec 1938 DL ant

Dec 1938 DL ant back

Dec 1938  Taken on a hike down by the merry go round.

We have had that fellow in photos before…I think his name is Chas.

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Monday, December 17, 2018

Photo Number 3161

This is a Real Photo Postcard from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

Arnold and Arthur Dl ant

Arnold and Arthur Dl ant back

Arnold is 6 years + Arthur is 2 years and two months.  I was going to send this before Xmas but then I got a letter from you, so I knew how you were getting along, so then I have been putting it of.  Will ans your letter soon.

This was a Cyko Postcard that was used from 1904 – 1920’s.

Yes Arthur does look like a girl…long hair and a dress on…remember dresses were common back then for boys…until they were potty trained and could do up their own pants they wore dresses.

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Sunday, December 16, 2018

Photo Number 3160

This is a Real Photo Postcard from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.  This is an Artura Postcard that was used from 1910 – 1924.

Babcocks DL ant

Babcocks DL ant back

Best Wishes for a “Merry Christmas” and a “Happy New Year”  The Babcock’s

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Saturday, December 15, 2018

Photo Number 3159

This is a Real Photo Postcard from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

ABN DL ant 

ABN DL antback

Merry Christmas an a Happy New Year A.B.N.

It is addressed to Hon. H.O. Bjorge Lake Park Minn

ABN DL antback

I believe the postcard was mailed from ____ Park Minn Dec 25 at 8PM  possibly 1909.

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Friday, December 14, 2018

Photo Number 3158

This is a  snapshot from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

Child on a horse DL ant

Someone was getting a ride!

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Thursday, December 13, 2018

Photo Number 3157

This is a Real Photo Postcard used from 1904-1918 purchased from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

Gal with muff among men DL ant

One gal among many men.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Photo Number 3156

This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

Seven women DL ant

Seven girls.

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Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Photo Number 3155

This is a Real Photo Postcard from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

Group outside house DL ant

A gathering of some sort.  This is a Cyko Postcard that was used from  1904 –1920’s.

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Monday, December 10, 2018

Photo Number 3154

This is a Real Photo Postcard from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

Man and dog DL ant

A man with a cat?  or a dog…or a baby goat? This is an AZO Postcard that was used from 1904 – 1918.

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Sunday, December 9, 2018

Photo Number 3153

This is a postcard from the antique shop in Detroit Lkaes Minnesota.

child and dog DL ant

A very poor Real Photo Postcard of a boy and a dog.  This postcard was used from 1904 – 1918.

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Saturday, December 8, 2018

Photo Number 3152

This is a small snapshot from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

Lady in a coat DL ant

A lady in a coat.  That is some snow slide on the roof of the house.  Looks like it works fairly well to deposit the snow away from the step.

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Friday, December 7, 2018

Photo Number 3151

This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

Ladies in coats DL ant

Two women in heavy coats and hats!

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Thursday, December 6, 2018

Photo Number 3150

This is a Real Photo Postcard from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota. It is an AZO postcard that was used from 1904 – 1918.

Hat lady DL ant

What a hat!  It made me smile so I hope you smile too!

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Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Photo Number 3149

This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

Farmstead DL ant

Some kind of a farm/ranch…I see a big fenced in area and some small buildings.

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Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Photo Number 3148

This is a Real Photo Postcard from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.
Charles  morris  Bury DL ant
Charles Morris Bury  Age 7 months weight 11 1/2 lbs.
S. Trad in Parker S. D. was the photographer.
This is a Cyko Postcard that was used from 1904 - 1920’s.
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Update:
Charles Morris Bury Born Sept 11 1920 and died April 25 1999 he was 78 years old. He served in the US Navy He is buried in Black Hills National Cemetery in South Dakota

Monday, December 3, 2018

Photo Number 3147

This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

Group in woods DL ant

Four people in the woods, possibly grandparents with grandchild and daughter.

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Sunday, December 2, 2018

Photo Number 3146

This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

Travelers DL ant

A group of travelers.

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Saturday, December 1, 2018

Photo Number 3145

This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

Boy in winter DL ant

A boy standing outside near some snow with a clothes line and an outhouse in the background.

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