Whoa! Family history FTW!

[annathepiper]

My little sister wildshadowstar sent me a lovely, lovely thing in email today: a whole bunch of scanned-in copies of old photographs from our grandmother. Nearly 10 megs’ worth. I’m not going to post them all, but I totally need to share a couple of them with you.

This first one is in Naples, Italy, in 1944. That dog-tag-wearing guy on the right? That there is my grandfather, Jim Sherer. I totally do not remember him; he died when I was very small. I have vague impressions of him as a much older man, heavier and ruddy-faced and with much less hair. But I can’t honestly say whether that’s because of pictures I saw of him; I have no recollections of his physical presence.

But wow. This is my granddad as a soldier. Wow.

There are several pictures of my mother as a little girl, too. Everybody in my family keeps telling me that I look so much like her, but it’s really driven home to me seeing this pictures. Especially this one. I love her expression here.

The coup de grace, though, is this one. Four, count ‘em, four generations of women from my family. On the far right is my great-grandmother Margaret, who I again completely fail to remember. Next to her is my grandmother Hyson. Next to her? That there is my mom, Judy Highland. And that blonde moppet in her lap? That’s ME.

I’m thrilled to have these. I think I need to send my grandma a letter to thank her for sharing them with the family. They’re wonderful. Many kudos to Becky for sharing them online too. <3

Mirrored from annathepiper.org.

Comments

[gerimaple.livejournal.com]

THAT is friggin' cool :) Makes me want to clean off my desk so I can finish scanning my old slides and share - especially sending my maternal 1st cousins the one of their parents (who are both deceased) smooching in my dining room :)

[xpioti.livejournal.com]

That's awesome. Every time I visit my grandmother, I make sure to get pictures of her, my mom, me, and my daughter; I want as many multi-generational shots as I can. Actually, one of my all-time favorite pictures is my daughter and grandmother riding my grandmother's scooter across a parking lot, both of them grinning like bandits! If I ever make a family album, that picture is liable to be on the front cover. :D

[flashfire.livejournal.com]

Cool stuff. I went through a lot of "Wow, look at this" stuff when I was looking through everything we had of my grandmother last year, and it's neat to see family when they were younger and looked, um, different than you remember them. ;-)

[annathepiper]

It's very cool indeed! :)

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

These pics are so great!

[annathepiper]

Thanks! There are a whole lot more of them but I didn't want to post the entire lot; I may see if I can do a Flickr album or something.

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

Wow. Those are some really cool photos! The one of your Mom as a little girl is very artistic in a cool and unintentional way. Naples Italy is also really very cool. Yay for you!

[annathepiper]

Yeah, I very much like the one of Mom as a little girl, for her pose and her expression and everything. <3 Thanks!

[wildshadowstar.livejournal.com]

Sarah is the one to really thank because she was the one that Grandma let borrow the pics. Hopefully when Sarah returns these, she'll be able to borrow a few more and let me scan them in; not to just share, but to have an extra copy in case something ever happens to the ones Grandma has.

[wildshadowstar.livejournal.com]

You didn't post it here, but the one of Grandma holding Kim is rather awesome.

[annathepiper]

I didn't want to post all of 'em because that's a lot! But yeah, the one of her and Kim was lovely. :)

[annathepiper]

Thanks for the clarification! I should wing Sarah a thank-you note as well.