Your mission this week, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission: Impossible! music!), is:
(1) How many generations do you have photographs or portraits of your ancestors and descendants? It can be any line—it just can't be broken!
(2) Tell us the line, or better yet, show us the unbroken line. Provide birth and death years, and the approximate date that the photograph or portrait was made.
(3) Share your generation photograph line in a blog post of your own, in a Facebook post, or in a comment to this post.
I thought I wouldn't be able to compete with Randy on this, but I found one of my Jewish(!) family lines with eight generations of photographs. It doesn't include me, because I don't have any descendants, but has my sister instead.
1. 3rd-great-grandfather Gersh Wolf Gorodetsky, unknown birth and death dates, probably from Podolia gubernia, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine), maybe from Kamenets Podolsky or Orinin, no idea when photograph was taken. (At least I'm pretty sure this is Gersh Wolf Gorodetsky.)
2. Great-great-grandfather Victor Gordon (originally Avigdor Gorodetsky, Hebrew name Isaac), ~1866–1925, from Kamenets Podolsky, Podolia gubernia, Russian Empire, photograph from about 1890 (on the left in the photo).
3. Great-grandfather Joe Gordon (originally Joine Gorodetsky), ~1892–1955, from Kamenets Podolsky, Podolia gubernia, Russian Empire, photograph from about 1914 (on the right in the photo).
4. Grandmother Lillyan E. (Gordon) Meckler, 1919–2006, originally from Manhattan, New York, photograph from 1937.
5. Mother Myra Roslyn (Meckler) Sellers Preuss, 1940–1985, originally from Brooklyn, New York, photograph from about 1972.
6. Sister Stacy Ann (Sellers) Doerner Fowler, living, originally from La Puente, Califorina, photograph from 2019.
7 and 8. Nephew Garry Travis Doerner, 1982–2012, from San Antonio, Texas; and grandniece Natalie Desiree Doerner, living; unknown date for photograph.
