OT - Family Photos

[PurpleBlood87]

I found an old family photo album and thought I'd ask for help from one of the best resources I know, the KFC family.

My father never talked much about his side of the family and ths photo album was my grandfather's.

Any thoughts on how to ID people in the photos. All my uncles have passed and memories of my grandparents are slim since they passed when I was young around seven.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Here are some of the photos.

 

[tcudoc]

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No idea, but cool photos. Good luck.

 

[PurpleBlood87]

This photo is from the 1940 Trimble Tech yearbook. Looks a bit like an older Alfafa. Strange yearbook, it only had class photos for the seniors.

 

[PurplFrawg]

This guy has a YouTube channel devoted to just this topic. It is interesting, and he has lots of tips on how to research these photos, including census data, marriage licenses, etc. Good luck.

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[Paint It Purple]

Cool photos. The one in front of the old farm house is practically identical to one I have of my family. Circa 1940

Begin your search: A. Find a grave. Wealth of info there. B. Old census records. C. If you have Indian blood, go to the Dawes Records of Indian affairs. Be prepared. The more you look and find, the more you can't stop.

 

[Paint It Purple]

Not a photo. But here's the kind of treasure you can find. My Grandfather's Confederate States of America Civil War enlistment papers, 1862. Obviously later transcribed because typewriter was invented until 1876. Read the remarks

 

[Brog]

Anybody recognize this campus?

 

[Paint It Purple]

A&m?

 

[Big Frog II]

Anybody recognize this campus?View attachment 18712

That is TCU. I believe they played basketball in the barn looking building until it burned down.

 

[BrewingFrog]

That is TCU. I believe they played basketball in the barn looking building until it burned down.

My Mother told of attending games in there, and how hot it was sometimes. I believe she was in undergrad when it burned down. My freshman year I lived in Pete Wright, and she noted that it was built where the old basketball barn used to be.

 

[BrewingFrog]

I found an old family photo album and thought I'd ask for help from one of the best resources I know, the KFC family.

My father never talked much about his side of the family and ths photo album was my grandfather's.

Any thoughts on how to ID people in the photos. All my uncles have passed and memories of my grandparents are slim since they passed when I was young around seven.

Any advice would be appreciated.

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My paternal grandfather lived to be 98, and he was meticulous about keeping old photos. Sometimes he even bothered to write on the back who was who, but in most cases all we have are pictures of unidentified people with maybe a date of development/printing.

One thing he did carefully notate was a group photo of a Family Reunion in 1906, in which he was a little kid in the front row with the other little kids. The back row consisted of the revered old folks, and there are a few interesting people in there which we never would have recognized save that he took the time to tell us who they were. There was a Reunion in 1986, and a few of those little kids were still alive to tell us about the older people in the photo.

 

[PurpleBlood87]

My paternal grandfather lived to be 98, and he was meticulous about keeping old photos. Sometimes he even bothered to write on the back who was who, but in most cases all we have are pictures of unidentified people with maybe a date of development/printing.

One thing he did carefully notate was a group photo of a Family Reunion in 1906, in which he was a little kid in the front row with the other little kids. The back row consisted of the revered old folks, and there are a few interesting people in there which we never would have recognized save that he took the time to tell us who they were. There was a Reunion in 1986, and a few of those little kids were still alive to tell us about the older people in the photo.

Some photos are IDed with typed notes pasted to the pages of the photo album.
Some have no notes.
According to my cousin, my grandfather and one of his brothers had a breakup. The other brother headed for California during the depression and left my grandfather in Texas to provide for his parents and an alcoholic younger brother.

 

[tcudoc]

According to my cousin, my grandfather and one of his brothers had a breakup. The other brother headed for California during the depression and left my grandfather in Texas to provide for his parents and an alcoholic younger brother.

The Grapes of Wrath Redux

 

[Brog]

My wife's mother left her a collection of several hundred family pictures, some nice portraits, of her family going back several generations. But not one of the several hundred had a name written on the back to help us know who they were.

 

[PurpleBlood87]

My wife's mother left her a collection of several hundred family pictures, some nice portraits, of her family going back several generations. But not one of the several hundred had a name written on the back to help us know who they were.

Most of these are pasted to the album so no writing on the back.