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the_jersey_lilly_2000
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These are some really neat photos......I have a few I need to scan and print, so that I can frame them and hang them on the wall with the rest of my ancestors. I have them on one wall in my livin room. This catagory is gonna make me get busy for sure doin that now, since I finally got a new scanner/printer recently.
Shelly
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What a great category! I love looking at old photos.
OldDog/NewTricks
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the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
Longs Drugs will let you scan them and put ±200 on a CD for you for $3.99
Faster horses
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Aren't they just some awesome photos?
What history we have.
Don't you just wonder what all they went thru?
What history we have.
Don't you just wonder what all they went thru?
Ranchy
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From what I've heard about her, probably so. She was my great great great grandmother, direct from Ireland........and she didn't want to come, is what I gathered from my grandma.........
I have some of her old goblets in my kitchen hutch, gold rimmed and etched......beautiful......Grandma said that she had the most gorgeous dishes and things.
This was a great category.......I really enjoy looking at everyone's pics, but always have to get help from Al, when it comes time to vote on them...........don't know what I'll do when he gets old enough to leave home.......guess I'll just have to close my eyes and point....... :lol:
ranchwife
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After seeing this category and some of the amazing pictures, I spent the afternoon scouring through my old photo albums looking for one picture in particular!! My great-great-great grand father who was born and raised in the hills of Tennessee, fought (and survived) in the Civil War and died coming home when the Steam Ship Sultana blew up while travelling up the Mississippi!! I simply LOVE digging into ancestry and finding photos and old letters!! What a wonderful topic!! Whoever thought up this one deserves big KUDOS!!! 
Faster horses
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:nod:
the_jersey_lilly_2000
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This contest also brings up another subject...same tho kinda. How many of you have done your Genealogy? I'm a genealogy addict. but it only hits me real hard a few times a year, Can't search for that stuff all the time, but if I wait 3 or 4 months between times that I really get diligent I usually find some new info out, or a new will, land grant, or somethin of interest. Along with that I've found several distant relatives with old photo's to share. They'll make copies and send them to me, and I'll do the same and share mine with them. I now have 6 generations of pictures of ancestors starting with my grandparent's and goin backward. The last set isn't photos, but portraits that were painted. Husband and wife..father to son order. Kinda neat.
ranchwife
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the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
Lilly---my grandmother sent me a book for my wedding 11 years ago that shows our family (the Dyer family) traced back to pre-revolutionary war here in the states.....before that, it gets a little murkey....hard to trace some back in Europe....not alot of written history on our family in Wales, Ireland, Scottland or England!! Not giving up, though!!! :wink:
the_jersey_lilly_2000
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I've gotten all lines on Mr Lilly's side, and all lines on mine but one, traced to when they came to the US. That was my goal when I started this many years ago, just to find out where they all come from. The one line I'm stuck on is my dad's side.
Judge Roy Bean, has such a (I dunno if you'd call it shady) past. But that line has me stumped at his parents. Can't find too much else out. I will eventually, somewhere someone has the info, I just gotta locate that needle in the haystack.
The other thing I'm stuck on , is the Indian heritage of several grandmothers and great grandmothers. Back then they didnt want anyone to know they were Indian or part Indian, so it was not talked about much, so it's hard to trace that kinda thing, but I'm not givin up.
Judge Roy Bean, has such a (I dunno if you'd call it shady) past. But that line has me stumped at his parents. Can't find too much else out. I will eventually, somewhere someone has the info, I just gotta locate that needle in the haystack.
The other thing I'm stuck on , is the Indian heritage of several grandmothers and great grandmothers. Back then they didnt want anyone to know they were Indian or part Indian, so it was not talked about much, so it's hard to trace that kinda thing, but I'm not givin up.
Ranchy
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ranchwife, one of my best friends in high school was a Dyer.......she's a big ole gal now (was just tall back then)......at 6', she pretty much dwarved the rest of the basketball team...... :lol:
lilly, I am 'into' genealogy, not as much as when I was Director of our FHC here, but still get the urge to go searching every now and then. My mom's mom is the one in our family that's really "into" it.......she can quote dates, places and all that stuff, from way on back in the 1700s.....some even further back than that. The maternal side of the family is pretty easily traced, since they all came from Europe......the ones I'm really stuck on is the Mexicans that my dad's mom came from.......I tell ya...........they are as hard as the Indians to trace! :shock:
It is fun, though.........
Robert
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I had one I thought about entering but decided against it cause he was dead in the picture.
His name was William Stiles aka.. Bill Chadwell, was a convicted horse theif and rode with Jesse James gang.
The story I was told was that he was the reason some of the family started spelling the last name with a Y instead of I
here is the story and link to the picture
warning pic of him shows bullet hole in chest
http://www.islandnet.com/~the-gang/William_Stiles.jpg
Northfield, probably the most famous of all the robberies and attempted robberies occurred September 7, 1876. The town citizens took matters in their own hands, ambushing the riders from the hardware store as well as the second floor of the Hotel aborting the robbery plans. It is generally accepted that Frank James was responsible for the death of Joseph L. Heywood, bank cashier who refused to open the safe. Other persons in the bank included A.E. Bunker, cashier (shot in the shoulder), and Frank J. Wilcox, Assistant Bookkeeper. Nicholas Gustavson, a Swede who couldn't understand English, when instructed to get out of the street as well as gang members, Clell Miller, Bill Chadwell were killed in the streets.
During the escape the Younger brothers were captured, Charley Pitts aka Sam Wells was killed and the James brothers escaped back to Missouri. The Youngers were tried and served 25 years in the Minnesota Stillwater Prison.
His name was William Stiles aka.. Bill Chadwell, was a convicted horse theif and rode with Jesse James gang.
The story I was told was that he was the reason some of the family started spelling the last name with a Y instead of I
here is the story and link to the picture
warning pic of him shows bullet hole in chest
http://www.islandnet.com/~the-gang/William_Stiles.jpg
Northfield, probably the most famous of all the robberies and attempted robberies occurred September 7, 1876. The town citizens took matters in their own hands, ambushing the riders from the hardware store as well as the second floor of the Hotel aborting the robbery plans. It is generally accepted that Frank James was responsible for the death of Joseph L. Heywood, bank cashier who refused to open the safe. Other persons in the bank included A.E. Bunker, cashier (shot in the shoulder), and Frank J. Wilcox, Assistant Bookkeeper. Nicholas Gustavson, a Swede who couldn't understand English, when instructed to get out of the street as well as gang members, Clell Miller, Bill Chadwell were killed in the streets.
During the escape the Younger brothers were captured, Charley Pitts aka Sam Wells was killed and the James brothers escaped back to Missouri. The Youngers were tried and served 25 years in the Minnesota Stillwater Prison.
