Dear Heidi: A noble thought--and very kind of you to try. Let us know if you have any luck! I collect old photos--mostly women and children in interesting costumes, ca. 1870-1910. I even have a few soldiers, probably dating WW I. It has always amazed me to go through antique shops, malls, even estate sales and see pictures of folks of the past, mostly anonymous as there never seem to be any names. (Your example is a lucky exception.) These people, I say to myself, were someone's uncles, aunts, cousins, parents and grandparents! Yet, they end up in bins of old photos, sometimes mixed in with postcards from Las Vegas and Paris, France--priced from 25 cents to a few dollars. Nobody wanted their pictures? Sad. I wish I had enough $$ to "adopt" them all. There are just too many "lost souls" in the antique stores out there. But I have a fair mixture from different parts of the country, and even a few I found in Great Britain, Romania, and Mexico. My mother has begged me not to mix them with our real family photos. I am very, very careful. I have them in a separate box marked "Instant Relatives." I like to give them names and sometimes write letters to them--in my journal. (My favorite is "Liza", a pretty little girl with glasses in a photo dated ca. 1900. She looks like someone I'd have been proud to be her uncle.) They're forgotten--but not really. In some form they continue to touch and mean something to somebody. I wish them well wherever they are in the spirit. BTW, I DO have a few photos I found in Pennsylvania with German names. I've posted but have never heard from anyone. Also, I wrote Southwestern University about some photos I have of students there--their names are included on the back. The alumni office never responds--or someone there gives me the runaway. The attitude? Oh, they're "old and dead people"--who cares? Sure hope someone related to the family in your photo cares, and gets in touch soon. Blessings, John --- heidi@quider.com wrote: > I recently purchased an old frame at the Goodwill in > Batavia, NY. Inside > the frame, was a photo of a family which appears to > be from the mid to late > 1800's. It is a photo of an elderly woman and 5 > children - 2 boys and 3 > girls. Unfortunately, there is no name on the > photo...only the following > is written on the bottom of the mat - > > Carl Weiss, Frankfurt aM > Bleichstrasse 28 > am Petersthor > > If any of you are interested, I'd be happy to e-mail > you a scan of this > photo. It's obvious it meant a lot to someone. The > weathered condition > of the frame shows me that it hung on the wall for > many years. I'd love > to be able to reunite this photo with family. > > Heidi Quider Gohn > Heidi@Quider.com > > > > ==== NYGENESE Mailing List ==== > To UN sub go here: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/NY/genesee.html > ===== "One more shot for the honour of Down!" -Rollicking Rollo (1766-1814) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com