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The Eva Morrison photo attracted a younger relative, timcasey75, who filled in tales of his great-aunt:
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Take a look at the comments on .
There are long detailed stories by the relatives of people who owned this shop or worked above it.
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these are terrific stories!
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Another grandson claimed a grandfather in the Bain collection this week:
www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3201912192/
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That's wonderful!
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Nice topic :-)
A relative of Carl Curman recognized her grandfather Carl G. Curman and his elder sister Nanna in a photo from our Carl Curman Collection. Carl G. was the youngest son of Carl and Calla Curman, born in 1886. (We thought at first the boy was their eldest son Sigurd.)
She also identified a room in one of the Curman villas in Lysekil as the dining room and told the interesting story of how the relatives of Carl Curman manage the villas today.
www.flickr.com/photos/swedish_heritage_board/3362107793/i...
/Anna B, Swedish National Heritage Board
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Another relative just claimed her auntie in the Flickr Commons!
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Katherine wrote in to claim her grandmother, Katharine J. Scott Bishop, and let us know how to spell her name!
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Luke's partner, now identified ... by his grandson!
Luke and Partner (Library of Virginia)
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That's so nice that Luke's partner has been identified!
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The first cousin (3x removed) of J.B. Joel just posted a family history...
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A few more!
John P. Collins' grandchildren enjoyed seeing his farm in Taunton, MA,
Miriam Harriman's descendant clarified a canceled engagement
Walter Brickett's family made new connections
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Glenna Smith Tinnin's first cousin's granddaughter was glad to see her photo in the LOC stream (and asked me to make another purse using the image!):
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Another grandchild came to claim a grandfather in the LOC:
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At the State Library and Archives of Florida, a reader posted that her grandmother lived in the same inn as Deaconess Harriet Bedell, wrote a manuscript about her, and may have worked with her.
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Another great-grandson claims his great-grandfather:
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Here's a good one--cousins who didn't already know each other met when they both claimed the same ancestor in the LOC uploads:
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That is a wonderful story!
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This photo has several relatives commenting on it...
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Wonderful!
Personal connections stories are very heartwarming!
:)
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A great-niece came to claim her scientist auntie in the Smithsonian:
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Very touching remembrance just added to this photo, by the subject's companion late in life:
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That is wonderful news!
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Another family reunion through the Commons--two grandchildren of the same boxer meet in the comments section!
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that is too, too cool.
If that was my ancestor I'd get a print of this photo from the LOC for my wall.
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I just posted several shots relating to my grandfather
Gonna link them in the Commons.
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Kathi in Texas claimed her great uncle's father
the Mexican politician Jose L. Requena
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Agatha from Honduras found Dr. Francisco Bertrand
He was twice the president of Honduras and is Agatha's husband's great grandfather
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A great-great grandson came to claim photos in the National Library of Ireland set...
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A son claimed his father's WWI boat,
Ballet students claimed their teacher,
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And now there's a grand niece learning about her great-aunt from this photo page:
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We're almost certain that this picture from the Powerhouse (Sydney) is my grandfather - the date, the face and the hare-lip are spot on!
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As pennylrichardsca says above, one of the photographers of some of our photos on the Commons, Thomas J. Wynne, is the great great grandfather of one of our contacts, who has a very elderly album at home of photos taken by Wynne...
Here's a photo of Thomas J. Wynne, circa 1880, advertising his studio in Castlebar, Co. Mayo:
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We also got great information on this photo because the grandparents of a friend of  ofarrl lived in the house at the time of the plane crash in November 1920...
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Here's a Slate.com gallery, "What's Grandpa Doing on Flickr?"--about this very phenomenon, personal connection in the Commons:
www.slate.com/slideshow/arts/whats-grandpa-doing-on-flickr/
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Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg's great-granddaughter C. E. Dobson came around to comment on this photo:
and linked to other materials about Gruenberg that she'd uploaded to Flickr (in a set that seems to include images of many of Sidonie's descendants):
Including Sidonie's funeral announcement:
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And another today--great-great-niece Kathleen Mary Holland comes to claim her uncle, labor leader James Holland:
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A granddaughter came to claim her high-flying grandfather, Myrl:
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A great-great niece came to claim her great-great aunt, a shipwreck survivor:
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Great-grandmother claimed (and identified):
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A family member confirms the identity of Gertrude and Rosamond Pinchot:
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A daughter just came to claim her mother, uncles, and grandmother in this family photo:
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We were recently contacted by the future child of this little boy:
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Funny how hearing from "the future child of this little boy" makes perfect sense in this context... Flickr Commons makes us time travelers. ;)
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You're so right, Penny. I love that.
Susannah
Smithsonian Institution Archives
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A Welsh singer is a Flickr user's great-great auntie:
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A great-grandson claimed his athlete ancestor:
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A granddaughter came to claim her grandfather in this photo from the Smithsonian:
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So wonderful!
Let's see if we can date this photograph. I'll update soon!
Susannah
Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Here's a "cheeky" boy, claimed by his grandchild:
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A great-grandchild comes to visit his ancestor, governor of Yucatan:
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A grandchild came to claim this lawyer:
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The stories on this thread are heart-warming!
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A grandchild came to claim actress Dai Turgeon:
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Another wonderful story, Penny!
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A Flickr user clicked on this World War I portrait, thinking he looked so much like her brother. Then she learned that she shared a middle name with the young man in the photo, and that he might actually be her great-uncle:
Another Imperial War Museum image finds kin: "The Seabrook boys were my great-great uncles":
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A great-granddaughter came to claim BOTH her artistic great-grandparents in the LOC uploads:
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A grandson/nephew came to claim this family portrait:
Posted 6 weeks ago.
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