#52ancestors
I’d Like to Meet...
my grandmothers and grandfathers so they could tell me who all these people are in the photos I have inherited from my mother and father, with no names on them.
I believe this is not an uncommon happening, as I have read and heard other historians saying the same thing.
It is such a shame, as I would love to put names to faces and add them all to my family tree. It would help me see them more clearly and I would have a lovely record for descendants.
Dating photographs is an interesting exercise, but how sure can I be, when these people lived in different parts of Australia, England, and Scotland. I don’t know whether they were up-to-date with the fashions of the time, which we rely on to establish time.
Distinguishing between the same gender members of the same family can be quite difficult, especially if there are strong family resemblances.
I have managed to work out a few, through matching them to named photos that cousins had of the same relatives, sometimes even a copy of the same photo.
But sadly, there still remains a box of lost people who I will probably never meet.
This is one photo I have worked hard at naming.
I believe it to be Rees Coventry Rees 1842-1920 and Eliza Wells (My mother’s Aunt) 1854 – 1892.
Photo was taken at Broken Hill by G F Jenkinson
