Why this blog?

As my family's not-to-reluctant family historian, I have acquired many photographs.  Some of these photographs provide awesome insight about my parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents.  

Others, however, are just photos. They are unlabeled and a mystery to me.  Nevertheless, I want to put names and stories with those faces.

Fortunately, I’ve had a little success!  In my first few blog posts, I intend to share those successes, along with how I identified the photo.

After that, I plan to share more not-yet-identified photographs with the hope that someone out there will recognize them and give them a name and a story.

The provenance of many of these photographs is confusing:

• My mother got them from my father's sisters
• They had been in the possession of my father's stepmother before her death in 1980
• They had reportedly belonged to my father's father's mother, who died in 1902, long before my father was born

Most of these photographs have ties to Alabama (mostly Fayette and Tuscaloosa counties) and Texas (mostly Hill, Jim Wells, and McLennan County).

If just a few of these photographs get names and stories, it will have been worth it!

Comments are encouraged -- whether actual names, or just observations that may help with identification.