Alexandra wrote: 
No, I almost never go to movies anymore.  It seems like a baseball game is about the only thing longer than half an hour I still have the attention span for.
 

 haresfur wrote: 
That and I did mention a couple of weeks ago that my mom was in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.

Very, very cool Prodigal_SOB
 
 
Have you seen "Imitation Game" yet? Really great WWII film out right now.

 Prodigal_SOB wrote: 
Now that is cool.  So that's where you get your dashing good looks.

 I was doing an archaeological dig in the room full of stuff I don't know what to do with looking for something entirely different and came across this.  The guy kneeling on the left is my biological father back in his devil may care flying fool days when he was single and out saving the country for us.
 
 

 miamizsun wrote:

I've got a lot of unique blood in me.
Which explains a lot.
 

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:
wow

very interesting

I inherited this picture of my great, great, great uncle Richard Rockingham from my mom. Who got it from her mother.



Ever since I was a little tike, I heard the stories about him. He was from England and he fought in the Civil War. He advanced in rank very quickly, and was well liked among the men that served under him. He was wounded during battle. Then was killed in a field hospital that was shelled by the Rebels.

There's quite a write up on him in this well documented book.  And somehow the author got a hold of my mom for that picture. It's featured in the book.

 Steve wrote: 
That's what got my mom. And she never smoked.
She got ovarian cancer. Beat it for 8 years. It traveled through her body and landed in her lungs.
It was really tough the last few months for her. We had to drain her lungs every 3-4 days.
At least she got to be at her home.

 Alexandra wrote: 
She was roughly half Italian and half German. She passed away in early 2001 at 68. Lung cancer sucks.

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
are those tomato vines?

 Steve wrote: 
 
LOVE this one!  Your mom looks a tad bit like my mom. Wow.

 Steve wrote: 
Wow, no doubt who your parents are for sure. Nice shot.

Late 1940's pic of my parents. Photo was shot at my grandparent's cabin (mom's mother and stepfather) in South Lake Tahoe. They were in their late teens.
 

my mother's wedding photo. it was around 1937, She was 18 years old.

 DaveInVA wrote: 
  I sometimes marvel at what truly world class procrastinators seem to run in my family.  My mother was born in 1919. My other great grandfather (the pregnant lady's dad) fought for Mr. Lincoln  during the rebellion. I'm 60 and my nieces and nephews are in their late teens and early 20s.  I've obviously out procrastinating them all but I feel like we're being generationally lapped by everyone around us.

My Mom was really into our family history and traced us back to 1515 on her side. She left me all the stuff she found and hundreds of family photos. Here are some of the oldest I know of.

This is the ol' homestead and great grandparents etc that was built early 1800's in Indiana. I remember seeing what was left of it as a kid before it burned down around '69. This copy of the original photo was labeled as from around 1880. 
 

This guy was Nathaniel 1789 to 1878, a great, great, great Granddad...


This was my Mom's Mom from Feb 1919... 

 Coaxial wrote: 
  Well the cornfield is just behind the house.
 

 Prodigal_SOB wrote: 
I didn't maximize it before...Whoa...That second kid from the left is right out of the corn field if you know what I mean.
And yeah...She is giving her the eye for sure.

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote: 
It is my aunt's picture and oddly enough when I made my cousin drag it out so I could snap a picture of it we sat around trying to do just that.  There were actually a couple that even Hazel was not too sure of even though she was there.  In fairness to the old girl her eyes aren't what they used to be and it was a long time ago.   Some of them are pretty easy though.  I certainly didn't need to be told the little girl front and center was Aunt Betty.  I've talked to my cousin since and she said they think they have it figured out now.