Have you looked at old high school yearbooks? Not just your own, but your parents or even grandparents. A few years ago I discovered the yearbooks from my grandparents’ high schools had been digitized and put online.
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Character
My great Aunt Grace looked for the positive even when life was a challenge. Aunt Grace was a character with character.
In the City
This story is about the garbage collectors in my father’s boyhood neighborhood during the mid-1930’s.
Groups
Among my old photos are several groups of schoolchildren. I am sharing these group photos in an attempt to connect with descendants of the children.
Bridge
During the 1960s our family took many road trips around Indiana. Sometimes my father went out of the way to drive across an old covered bridge.
Police Woman
When I heard stories about my great Aunt Sadie’s exploits as a policewoman, I imagined her like the main character, Pepper Anderson, of the old TV show “Police Woman”
Favorite Place
My favorite place is a neighborhood on the east side of Indianapolis: Irvington. My great grandfather, grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and I have all called Irvington “home” at some point.
Great
Meet my 19 great aunts and uncles. I mostly know them from my research. But each was great, in their own way.
Valentine
Among my grandmother’s keepsakes is an old Valentine. I wonder who sent this mystery Valentine and why my grandmother saved it.
In The Kitchen
When I was a child, I would sit in the kitchen at my uncle’s home and read his old books, one in-particular I liked, “The Housekeeper’s Handy Book.”