Friday, April 30, 2010

Newby, Long or Kelley Family?

Another unknown family photo among the photos I received from my Aunt. This could be Newby,Long or Kelley family gathering. I really haven't been able to make out any of the people.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Treasure Chest Thursday and "Genealogy" Spring Cleaning

If you haven't read the Olive Tree Genealogy post on Spring Cleaning Your Genealogy you should!
OK! I wasn't exactly spring cleaning my Genealogy but I was cleaning and found a Treasure Chest of Genealogy things I had forgotten about having and in some cases I'm not sure I knew about.
Recently we changed to Comcast Internet and had to have them come out to install. If you are like me in order for someone to get near the computer some things have to be cleaned out. So I was going through some things on a bookshelf and found two envelopes full of "Treasures".
In 1986 my husband gave me a Family History Book to record information in and I began my research. The first thing I did was write to two Great Aunts (both are now dead). The letters they sent me with so much information was in my found treasure, I knew the letters were somewhere but didn't know where. I'm so happy to have found them. There were obituary cards for my Grandparents and other relatives.
There was also a wonderful letter written by my mother-in-law to my husband in 1981. She had been to a family reunion and she wrote him about who was there and there was a list of all the people at the reunion.
My husband was in the Army at the time and out of the country. Recently we borrowed some pictures to scan and one of the envelopes had pictures of the 1981 Family Reunion!! WOW! Now we have a list of who was there this will help in putting names on the pictures!

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Newby Family Photo and Another Home of Our Ancestors


This old photo isn't in the best condition as you can see from the scan. There are no names on the photo. One of my cousins said he remembered seeing this many years ago and he thought the baby in the photo was our grandmother, Fay Newby Kelley. It seems sometimes with these old photos it was as much about getting a picture of the house they lived in as it was the people. The people are such a small part of the photo.


I did some editing and zoomed in some so we can see the people better. The man and woman to the left could be D. H. Newby and Jennie Long Newby. I've seen several photos of D. H. Newby and this does look like him. I've only seen one of Jennie so I'm not sure about her. The baby could be anyone except for my cousin thought he remembered this being our Grandmother. The man holding the baby and the child on the right of the photo are a mystery. If I were to guess the man maybe Jennie's father, Moses Long. D. H. Newby's father was already dead when my grandmother was born, or at least we think he was.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Ed and Hazel Newby

Mrs. White (mother of Hazel Newby), Ed and Hazel Newby

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Fay Newby Kelley and Edwin Newby

                                 My Grandmother and her brother Edwin Newby.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

View of ??

Don't know where this was taken but thought it was an interesting old photo.