This is a New Years Eve photo from the antique shop in Pequot Lakes Minnesota.
This was taken New Year 1949 what a night. Jerry + Terry 1/1/50
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This is a New Years Eve photo from the antique shop in Pequot Lakes Minnesota.
This was taken New Year 1949 what a night. Jerry + Terry 1/1/50
Happy New Years Eve!
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This Full Circle began with an email from Lincoln wondering if I still had this photo because he was a friend of a family member. Lincoln asked his friend about it.
Turns out is my friend’s grandfather. He is very excited to see the photo. He really loved his grandfather.
I mailed the photo.
Oram R Lawry Photo Number 1809
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This Full Circle began with comments left on the blog.
From Edith:
What a wonderful surprise to find photo number 2036 during a random search on my family today. I had to send you my thanks. . I have the same postcard sent to my grandmother by “Susie” but there was no reference to the name of the baby and I didn't know which one it was until I read it on your site. Ruby Loretta was my 1st cousin 1x removed. The actual children in this family were Richard Stuart, Rena May, Pearl Amanda, Thelma Katherine, Robert Leonard, and Ruby Loretta. I knew Richard Stuart, a favorite cousin of my Dads and I have met Robert Leonard's son. Arthur, Rebecca, Mary and Will were siblings of the children's father, my great Uncle Dick, Susie's husband. Rebecca was my grandmother. Your wonderful act of sharing these photographs has brought a happy surprise to me and my family. Thank You so much.
Ruby Loretta Casteel Photo Number 2036
Thank You so much. I have emails in to my sisters to see if they would like the photo. Actually, I sometimes correspond with Suzie's grandson and will also check to see if he would like it. Otherwise, there's me. There's a chance I will meet others from this family connection. I don't think the last generation were in touch like they were in Suzie's day.
I mailed the photo.
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This Full Circle began with a comment left on the blog by Chris.
Hi Folks - I stumbled across this page by accident during a web search and am glad I did! I am related to the Aanund Flaat pictured here. MJM and LarsI are correct about his identity and emigration from Evje in Norway to Bygland, MN. I am not sure about the connection with the Knutsons - I am not aware of a family connection but maybe there was a business connection or they were just friends.
I am in contact with a descendant of Aanund Flaat who may be interested in the physical photograph.
Ben Knutson and Aamund Flaat and a unknown Photo Number 2469
Chris put me in touch with his relative Nate and the photo was mailed off.
Hi Connie,
I looked and I do not actually have that particular photo. If you could send it to me that would be great!
thanks!
Nate
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This Full Circle began with an email.
Hello,
I am a descendant of the Hans and Kari Hanson family that you show in your Photo #2907 on Forgotten Old Photos. Hans and Kari are my great great grandparents and their son Hans is my great grandfather.
I was very excited to see the photo and would love to purchase it if it is available. Please let me know.
Thank you, Cheryl
I mailed the photo to Cheryl.
Hanson Family Photo Number 2907
Cheryl wrote back;
I was thrilled to recieve your package and actually hold the portrait of the Hanson Family in my hands! What a wonderful piece of family history! I will treasure it as I am sure my children will one day. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
Thank you for sending along your research notes as well there are a few middle names and dates I had not seen before so I can really use the info.
I included facts I have learned about Hans Hanson and Kari in the last email I sent. ( I was reading it when it just disappeared from my computer screen) Most of the recollections I sent were passed down from their son Peter. There is no direct information set down by the couple and my great grandfather Hans Jr died before I was born. Hans Jr wife Inger was still alive when I was a small child, though she also came over from Norway (1886), age 17 but she did not speak English so I did not know her well.
I am sending you a small compensation for your time and trouble, though it is nothing compared all the happiness you spread. I will check back on your blog from time to time to see what’s new. There are some very nice stories from your grateful families. Thank you again for everything. Sincerely Cheryl
I sent Cheryl an email copy of Mrs. Chris Milsten Photo Number 2002 and Full Circle Number 156 and she was sure that she is in the photo second row center. Cheryl hopes to identify all the family members in the group photo.
Mrs Chris Milsten
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This Full Circle began with an email.
Hi Connie,
I have stumbled on your blog a number of times over the years and absolutely love seeing the photos and what you do. I've done the same thing (on a MUCH smaller scale), but have found it unbelievably satisfying to get photos back to family members and researchers. At any rate, I finally found a photo on your blog that I can get full circle! It's photo number 1976. I'm helping a friend and her brother put together a family history for their 84-year-old mother for Christmas. They wanted to explore their mother's mother's family because their grandmother didn't know her father until later in life (she was raised by her paternal grandparents). The two girls in the picture would have been my friend's grandmother's first cousins. Amy (Manthei) Lundquist (1906-1987) lived her entire life in Minneapolis and, as someone mentioned, Fontella (Manthei) Campbell died at the age of 20 in 1927. I'd love to get a high quality scan of the photo to give my friends to present to their mother with the family history. As you'd probably appreciate, when you want to know more about family, it's fun to put faces with names. And they are a wonderful family who suffered much tragedy. Their great-grandfather, Frank Chamberlin, was the younger brother of the mother of the pictured girls, Finis (Chamberlin) Manthei. Amy is named after her grandmother, who died at age 48 leaving several younger children. Thanks, Connie, and keep up the good work. I love this blog!
Sincerely,
Brendon
I mailed the photo to Brendon on May 19 2018.
Amy and Fontella Manthei Photo Number 1976
Hi Connie,
I received the photo of Amy and Fontella Manthei yesterday. Thank you! I'm happy to reimburse you for your expense, and will be mailing that soon. I appreciated your letter, and if it's okay, I'd love to write back a little "full circle" info when my friend presents the photo to her mother. This will really make our project for her come to life! Thanks again. I absolutely love the work you are doing.
Sincerely,
Brendon
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I hope everyone that reads this blog has a Merry Christmas!
This is a postcard that was mailed in 1911.
I have been working really hard to get the Forgottens all caught up with for the New Year. I have a number of photos that were mailed and I have no idea if they found their way home safely or not…so I am writing Full Circles for those photos and some Full Circles that were completed this Fall.
Thank you to everyone that reads this blog and for the help researching the names on the photos. I appreciate you!
This Full Circle began with a comment left on the blog.
Ray Setterlund Photo Number 1453
I mailed the photo and followed up with another email asking if it arrived safely?
Yes Ma’am.
I was going to wait to get some detailed info from my Uncle to share with you and your readers.
I really do appreciate your effort and have enjoyed going back through your blog. I have shared the link with several family members, some of which still live up in the frozen tundra. One cousin is in Brainerd.
More to follow
Thanks again Mark
I can always add information from relatives anytime.
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This Full Circle began with an email.
Percy Armstrong Photo Number 1998
Hello Connie,
I was searching for records of my relatives to get inspiration for names for my daughter to be born in August and I came across your blog.
Percy is my great-grandfather. He and Elsie had two daughters, Yvonne and Dorothy. Dorothy is my grandmother. She married Joe Dodgen whose son, David, is my father. My wife and I live in Humboldt, IA which is just 20 minutes from Fort Dodge where Percy and his family lived. My grandmother passed away a few years ago. We would love to get this precious photo of her father back into our family. Please let me know if that is possible. Thank you! Joel
I mailed the photo.
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This Full Circle began with a comment on the blog from Grandaughter Dora.
Luella Drewlow Photo Number 2683
A few days after she left a comment I got an email.
Thank you so much for offering to return the photo to her family. Luella (my Grandma) passed away last Thursday and we will lay her to rest and celebrate her life in just a couple of days. Here is a link to her obituary, so others can learn more about the beautiful (inside & out) woman in the photograph.
She will be greatly missed, and this lost, but now found photo, of her will be greatly treasured.
Thank you so much for the work you do to reunite old photos with the families/friends of those in them.
Dora
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This Full Circle began when I contact Vivian the family historian.
Connie,
Sorry it took so long to get back to you.
While Jack and Florence don't tie into my direct line (Florence is my 8th cousin 3x removed), I'd love to have it and put it on my website (I'm working on a major update now). If anyone directly related to them contacts me, I would be happy to pass it along to them.
Jack Gudbaur Photo Number 2506
The young boy in the picture is Jack Allen Gudbaur, who appears to be about 6 months old in the picture, putting the date of the picture as Saturday, November 25, 1916 (he was born April 3rd of the same year). Jack grew to join the Army Air Corps during WWII and lived in a number of states.� He married twice (that I know of), divorcing both times. Jack had two sisters and a brother, all of whom outlived him. In fact, one of his sisters and his brother married siblings from another family Jack died at the age of 77 in Oregon
His mother, Florence Arvilla Lombard, who married his father Leo Ross Gudbaur approximately a year before Jack's birth, is the one who sent the postcard From what she wrote, it sounds like she may have been visiting her parents in Sandpoint, Idaho when the picture was taken - perhaps for the Thanksgiving holiday. She and Leo lived in Sagle, Idaho at the time, not far from Sandpoint. She was also several months pregnant with Jack's sister, which may have been another reason for the visit "home" - to tell her family.
The Lombard side of Florence's family can be traced back to when they arrived in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1630. Her line moved to Barnstable, then Truro, Massachusetts (on Cape Cod) for a few generations, then north to Maine for a couple more generations, before beginning to move west to Portage County, Wisconsin, where Florence was born. Her parents moved the family to Idaho when she was a young girl.
The postcard was addressed to Leo's father, Alfred Fremont Gudbaur and Leo's stepmother, Ellen Bradley. They married about 15 years prior, when Leo was a young teenager, and lived in Copeland, Idaho at the time - about 55 miles from Florence, Leo and Jack. Ellen died on Halloween in 1925, when a train hit her automobile at a railroad crossing. Alfred also died in an automobile accident 9 years later when he ended up in a ditch with a skull fracture from the crash. Sadly, Leo's only brother also died an accidental death when he was 32 years old (about 8 months after Ellen's death) and broke his neck in a fall.
Jack's father, Leo, died in 1952 at the age of 65. His mother, Florence, died in 1973 at the age of 79.
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This Full Circle began when a gal left a comment on the blog.
I am the great-grand-daughter of Lewis H. Gilbert, brother of Edgar T. Gilbert. I am not able to identify any direct descendants for Edgar, and he is buried with Lewis and the rest of Lewis's family in Mount Hope Cemetery, as mentioned above. There is a collection of family photos lining the staircase of the house Lewis built in 1907. It would be lovely to reunite Edgar with his family if you still have the photo.
Edgar T Gilbert Photo Number 1882
I mailed the photo and didn’t hear anything else…so I declare this photo Full Circle.
Connie,
It’s amazing to think this photo made its way from Rochester, NY to Minnesota. I was actually researching Edgar’s father, Truman Gilbert who was from central New York and an early pioneer to Clintonville (now, South Elgin) Illinois in 1835. After his first wife died, Truman married another woman, Ann Ryder, who is the mother of Edgar and Lewis. Both young men and their mother made their way back east to Rochester after Truman died. Lewis became a dentist and Edgar a manufacturer of “shoe polishers and similar articles.” Edgar also holds a patent for a cork shoe-liner which was supposed to improve comfort in your shoes/boots.
I currently live in New York City with my husband and 2 children, but my mother still lives in the house where I was raised in Rochester; the house Lewis Gilbert built in 1907. Since I’ve begun my work on ancestry.com I’ve been labeling several old photographs that were in the attic and lining the staircase wall with them. So glad you found Edgar!
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These are snapshots from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.
This was the cottage that was built at the merry go round Dec 1938
Dec 1938 Taken on a hike down by the merry go round.
We have had that fellow in photos before…I think his name is Chas.
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This is a Real Photo Postcard from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.
Arnold is 6 years + Arthur is 2 years and two months. I was going to send this before Xmas but then I got a letter from you, so I knew how you were getting along, so then I have been putting it of. Will ans your letter soon.
This was a Cyko Postcard that was used from 1904 – 1920’s.
Yes Arthur does look like a girl…long hair and a dress on…remember dresses were common back then for boys…until they were potty trained and could do up their own pants they wore dresses.
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This is a Real Photo Postcard from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota. This is an Artura Postcard that was used from 1910 – 1924.
Best Wishes for a “Merry Christmas” and a “Happy New Year” The Babcock’s
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This is a Real Photo Postcard from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.
Merry Christmas an a Happy New Year A.B.N.
It is addressed to Hon. H.O. Bjorge Lake Park Minn
I believe the postcard was mailed from ____ Park Minn Dec 25 at 8PM possibly 1909.
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This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.
Someone was getting a ride!
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This is a Real Photo Postcard used from 1904-1918 purchased from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.
One gal among many men.
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This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.
Seven girls.
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This is a Real Photo Postcard from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.
A gathering of some sort. This is a Cyko Postcard that was used from 1904 –1920’s.
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This is a Real Photo Postcard from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.
A man with a cat? or a dog…or a baby goat? This is an AZO Postcard that was used from 1904 – 1918.
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This is a postcard from the antique shop in Detroit Lkaes Minnesota.
A very poor Real Photo Postcard of a boy and a dog. This postcard was used from 1904 – 1918.
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This is a small snapshot from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.
A lady in a coat. That is some snow slide on the roof of the house. Looks like it works fairly well to deposit the snow away from the step.
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This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.
Two women in heavy coats and hats!
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This is a Real Photo Postcard from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota. It is an AZO postcard that was used from 1904 – 1918.
What a hat! It made me smile so I hope you smile too!
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This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.
Some kind of a farm/ranch…I see a big fenced in area and some small buildings.
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This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.
Four people in the woods, possibly grandparents with grandchild and daughter.
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This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.
A group of travelers.
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This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.
A boy standing outside near some snow with a clothes line and an outhouse in the background.
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This is a Real Photo Postcard from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.
This is an AZO Postcard that was used from 1904 –1918.
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This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.
Looks like this gal was out camping, I think she is cleaning out a frying pan. Possibly this was taken at Tamarac Wildlife Refuge.
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This is a Real Photo Postcard from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.
Two woman, sisters maybe, a Real Photo Postcard from the early 1900’s.
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This is a Real Photo Postcard from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.
A lady with a hat and a fur? boa.
This is a AZO Postcard that was used from 1926-1940.
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This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.
It is marked on the back Feb 1943
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