Do you think about how pictures came into your possession? I\u2019m not much worried about the tedium of where grandma kept them in her home, but how they may have passed from their original owner to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Got to thinking about this with the many pictures I have that belonged to my great-grandparents, their son (my grandfather) and their daughter. I have virtually all the photographs they had. What is really interesting is the fact that these photographs are of my great-grandmother\u2019s maternal family, my great-grandfather\u2019s family, and my great-grandparents an their children. There were no pictures from great-grandma\u2019s paternal family at all\u2014and she had aunts and uncles on that side of the family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There was one picture of my great-grandma and her siblings as children, one picture of her brother, none of her sister, and one of her sister\u2019s daughter. That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Did the photos of the paternal side of great-grandma\u2019s family pass down to her brother\u2019s family? Did they even have pictures from that side of the family?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One shouldn\u2019t draw conclusions about family dynamics with the absence of pictures of certain branches of the family as, at least in my case, there\u2019s more than possible reasonable explantion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But still one wonders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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