This week again features my sister, Lisa as it’s her birthday month celebration. This vintage shot drips of the late 70’s, witness the orange and brown decor (and clothing) surrounding us as Lisa holds baby me on the floor of …
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Check out the dressed up toddler girls here. It’s sometimes fun to guess who is in the photo I’m retouching, before I look for clues or info on the back. In this case, I really hadn’t a clue, but come …
This weekend, we celebrate the mid-summer birthday of Lisa Wise, sister to me, and family member to the cousins seen in this great vintage shot from the mid-70’s. The cousins are all about to enjoy some cake (which appears to …
The more photos I go through, the more I find that the June 1920 wedding of Bertha Greiner and Walter Jordan was well documented!! Today, we feature a 3rd shot of that day — wherein we find Bertha and Walter …
Here we find Larry DeVoe, Matt’s maternal uncle (1943-2003), kneeling down to the ground and holding onto the family cat, Mike who seems happy for the human lovin’. I’m tentatively assigning 1953, with Larry being 10 years old based on …
This week’s post is a recent follow-up relating to this post here. There, we saw a professional-type wedding portrait of Erin’s maternal great-grandmother, Bertha (Greiner) Jordan and her husband Walter Jordan. I recently restored this and it was an immediate …
Judy DeVoe is eager and pink-cheeked, sitting in a big brown chair, showing you her cute plaid patterned zip-a-doodle outfit. I imagine her parents, Don and Betty, still so fresh into the parenting life and deciding to go get a …
Finally a Pickett photo — it’s been awhile! Erin’s paternal grandma Dortha helped me with this one — she described it as a “5 generations photo” — so we’ll go through identities from oldest to youngest. The elder at the …
I’ve been chatting with many of my high school senior patients — often by telemedicine — and hearing both the successes and frustrations of a wholly changed experience during a viral pandemic. Some had modified ceremonies… some are planned but …
The boogie night is young and it’s time to head out to the school dance. Slide into your finest 70’s formal-wear and join this crew for some disco fever — can you cats dig it? Okay — so that’s my …
New challenge presented as I try to do a post on an iPad this time. The other day I managed to spill my coffee onto my laptop — I needed the peppy liquid, not the electronic device — that’s a …
We are looking into a formal dinner gathering of the Jordan family. It looks pre-meal, and there’s conversation while the water and milk are served. The photographer has chosen to focus on the dark-haired woman sitting in the corner, her …
It’s good to see that my maternal grandfather and grandmother, Don DeVoe and Elizabeth “Betty” (Dague) DeVoe had a successful day at the lake. They are the left couple, and I think they have 30+ fish here — of which …
Viruses, when new or unchecked by medicine, have a way of wrecking havoc as we all now so vividly know. For most of us alive, though — our current situation was somewhat beyond imagination. Not to the generation of Americans …
It’s a sunny day for us to see Betty (Dague) DeVoe (Matt’s maternal grandmother), holding her first born, Judy. Betty wears a nice dress and sends a kind smile toward the camera, presumably held by her husband, Don. Judy is …
This is a warm, evening-time glimpse into the world of Susan (Bauer) Greiner, the maternal great-great-grandmother to Erin. Susan (Bauer) Greiner, mother of Bertha (Greiner) Jordan, mother of Joseph Jordan, father of Meg (Jordan) Pickett, mother of Erin. The back …
The feature image is the MyHeritage/colorized version, and below is the black and white standard: The little girl in front, is Matt’s mother Penny DeVoe. Penny’s brother Larry DeVoe is on the left, his arms behind his back. The woman …
This is Margaret Lorimer on her wedding day to Jack Lunt. Margaret is Erin’s maternal great-grandmother direct through maternal lines. Margaret (Lorimer) Lunt, mother to Martha (Lunt) Jordan, mother to Margaret (Jordan) Pickett, mother to Erin. So you can now …
My maternal grandmother, Elizabeth (Dague) DeVoe, is posing for you in a flower dress standing on a small grassy hill. She’s behind what we presume to be her home. The air seems warm — the leaves are quite full — …
With an upward view from a child’s eye or a seated position, we say hello to John “Jack” Anthony Lunt, maternal great-grandfather to Erin [Father of Marty (Lunt) Jordan, mother of Meg (Jordan) Pickett, mother of Erin]. Everyone needs to …
It’s Judy DeVoe, my maternal aunt, smiling for a pose as she sits on her bed at home. She’s sporting a watch, a ring, presumably some lipstick, and is enjoying teenager life in her button-up shirt/light coat. The lone wall-decor …
So is the writing on the back of this photo giving us immediate identities for the men and child here. “Little Joe” — in front, and looking a bit disgruntled, as toddlers can, i have found — is Joseph Jordan, …
I dabble around with different web resources for my genealogy and photo interests. MyHeritage (which I’m not a member of), recently unveiled a new feature wherein you can upload black and white photos for an automated colorization process. This technology …
Celebrating love ❤️ 💕 💘 and its imagery today — with this fine double-date photo of the couple Chapman, that is Matt’s maternal aunt Judy DeVoe and uncle Jerry Chapman, here seated centrally, with Judy tenderly leaning in for a …
I know that mid-century formal wear can evoke a “Mad-Men” style-vibe — aware here of the fashion and style reference but without any experience seeing the show itself. So it’s in that thought that I present my maternal grandfather, Donald …
