1919–2022
Genealogy is like a jigsaw puzzle, but you don't have the box top, so you don't know what the picture is supposed to look like. As you start putting the puzzle together, you realize some pieces are missing, and eventually you figure out that some of the pieces you started with don't actually belong to this puzzle. I'll help you discover the right pieces for your puzzle and assemble them into a picture of your family.
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A Favorite Photo for Mother's Day
Randy Seaver's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun this weekend was to post your favorite photo of your mother:
1) This is Mother's Day weekend, so please go through the photographs you have of your mother and share your absolute favorite photograph of her. Just one. Oh, tell us why it's your favorite, and tell us something about your mother, too.
2) Share your photograph and story in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or on social media (e.g., Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, etc.).
It wasn't very difficult for me to choose my favorite, because I'm a sucker for multigeneration photographs.
The photo is not dated. I don't know what the occasion was for the photograph, and the three people in the photo have all passed away, so I'll probably never learn. I can make an educated guess that it was taken in Miami, because that's where my grandparents lived, and my great-grandmother moved there after my great-grandfather died, which was May 2, 1955. I suspect my grandfather took the photo; he took most of the photos in the family.
My mother, Myra Roslyn Meckler, is on the left. To me she looks to be about 20 years old, which would mean it was taken around 1960, the year before she married my father. In the middle is my grandmother, Lillyan (Gordon) Meckler, and on the right is my great-grandmother, Sarah (Brainin) Gordon.
This is a great photo for Mother's Day, because I can honor three generations of mothers on that side of my family.
1) This is Mother's Day weekend, so please go through the photographs you have of your mother and share your absolute favorite photograph of her. Just one. Oh, tell us why it's your favorite, and tell us something about your mother, too.
2) Share your photograph and story in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or on social media (e.g., Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, etc.).
It wasn't very difficult for me to choose my favorite, because I'm a sucker for multigeneration photographs.
The photo is not dated. I don't know what the occasion was for the photograph, and the three people in the photo have all passed away, so I'll probably never learn. I can make an educated guess that it was taken in Miami, because that's where my grandparents lived, and my great-grandmother moved there after my great-grandfather died, which was May 2, 1955. I suspect my grandfather took the photo; he took most of the photos in the family.
My mother, Myra Roslyn Meckler, is on the left. To me she looks to be about 20 years old, which would mean it was taken around 1960, the year before she married my father. In the middle is my grandmother, Lillyan (Gordon) Meckler, and on the right is my great-grandmother, Sarah (Brainin) Gordon.
This is a great photo for Mother's Day, because I can honor three generations of mothers on that side of my family.
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