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Have you ever realized how many sets of grandparents you have as you go back further in the generations? start out with two sets of grandparents, then four, then eight, then sixteen, then thirty two, then sixty-four! This is just six generations! Think how many people it took just to create...

Quote: My parents hightailed it from here back in the 60's. They went to Ohio and we was up there for about 10 or 12 years. Dad worked in the auto industry. I was born there, Bay Village (don't tell no one) LOL! Anyway, we ended back here when I was about 5. I haven't left yet, and probably...

Quote: Wow! Not too far from me. My dads family are all from the southern part of the state,Raleigh,Summers, and Mercer counties. My moms family is from Roane and Calhoun county. My family didnt have too many coal miners, more oil field workers up in Roane and Calhoun, the rest, farmers. My...

Quote: Alot of my history is documented thru Ellis Island and I am happy about that but rich American heritage is also important. If it were not for those people, we would not be here. Yes there are a lot of mixed feelings about American History but that is a history we were not here for. My...

Those are awesome pictures! I just love old pictures of family. LilRalphieRoosmama,..sassy grandma is great! Its always fun to run up on that one picture that shows that person in a different light. Schultz,..great pictures! I hope you get to go and visit your homeland one day. That would be...

Quote: That is such a sweet story! It is so nice to know family stories like that and you can pass them down to the next generation. My DH's grandfather "Chow" (that was his nickname) he spoke english good, but when he got mad, he would go to cussing and fussing in spanish. That is one of...

Quote: No one objects, love the photos! The picture of your great grandfather is very nice. I love the mustache! This picture is of my DH's grandpa, he come over from Spain in 1920. His name was Everisto Santa Maria Martinez. He changed his name to Everette S. Martin later on.

This is my great-grandmother, Christannie Bonnie Dale Lilly b.1904 . I loved this woman more than anything! I was named after her and I was her "pick" of the grandkids. She was a wonderful person and lived until she was 90 yrs old. I miss her so much. It was nice to know I had the chance to know...

Quote: Love those pictures! What is with the goofy look??? Being a kid, right? I know what you mean about missing your grandpa. All of my grandparents have been gone since I was in high school. I never understood back then what I had and now that they are gone,..well,..I miss them all very...

Quote: If I have time tonight I will download some of mine from Picasa or photobucket. Don't have much memory on my old puter so I took them off after I uploaded them to the photo sites. Phew I've been working on the tiller today- cleaning up on the yard a little and patching...

As I said I finally transferred all my pictures this morning from the old computer, I had almost 500 pictures! I never realized!

This is the picture that I said I was so proud of. This is my GGGgrandparents on my fathers side, William Lilly and his wife Julianna. This was taken in the late 1800's. He was born about 1820 and she was born around 1840 or so. (I got all my pictures downloaded to my laptop now) This is my...

Quote: I just had to post something somehow! This is all I could get to in a hurry and plus everyone is asleep and Im trying to rumage through things quietly. I could not find my back-up disc of all my pictures! First thing in the morning I will have to make a new copy off the old computer. I...

Quote: Now that is a treasure!! I just had to post something somehow! This is all I could get to in a hurry and plus everyone is asleep and Im trying to rumage through things quietly. I could not find my back-up disc of all my pictures! First thing in the morning I will have to make a new...

Okay IF this works,(I copied this with my webcam thats why it is so blury)anyway,..this is my GGgrandmother,her daughter my Ggrandmother,and her daughter my grandmother, and the skinny little boy is my daddy. Four generations of my family on my dads side. It was taken about 1950 or so.

I kind of conviscated (sp?) pics from all family members when I was doing research on my family tree. They would let me borrow them and I would take them home and scan them onto my old computer,that way I have copies and the originals werent hurt and all was happy, then I would return them. My...

I loooovvvveee old pictures! I have old family pictures out the wazoo but I have none on my new computer (never transfered files). I have been working on my family tree for almost 5 yrs now and have accumalated bunches of pics! My favorite one is of my great great great grandparents in their...