• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Family history, and remembering....

Navy Chief

Navy Chief

Senior Member
My sister, Melissa, stopped by for a short visit this past Tuesday, on her way down to Sanibel Island for a vacation. She brought with her two file boxes of pictures to give me.

It is overwhelming, the amount of pictures! A lot of my family pictures and other irreplaceable information was destroyed by my ex-wife, when we were going through the divorce, and I had mistakenly left them in the attic. So until my sister brought these boxes, I had resigned myself to just forgetting about such things.

But going through the pictures is a joy to undertake. I thought I would attach a few of them, to show what I mean. I fortunately have a cousin in California who is an avid geneologist, and has been working on our family tree. This has been a lot of fun!

Am sure this thread will start a lot of family picture posts, and that is a good thing!

Navy Chief
 
man! those pics are great!
i love this kind of stuff!!! maybe there should be a thread for cool pics like these. i have a few, and i'm sure many others do as well. it would be really cool to see them, and who knows? we may learn something in the proccess.
 
I love those! :applause:
working in a photo lab i get to see a lot of old
pics but its always good to see some of your family
here me and my Grandparents
H
 
Just to give more details:

Top row of pictures

Top Row, left - at opening of a Peoples Bank branch in Indianapolis, around 1970, with then Calif. Gov. Reagan, my dad on his left, and another bank manager

Top Row, middle - my dad, Arnold Douglas Ward, probably around 1962 or so.

Top right - my Great, Great, Grandfather George Frederick Schirmer

Second Row, Left - Me, onboard USS Saratoga, with VFA-83, 1990

Second Row, Middle - my mom, Lois B. Jackson Ward

Second Row, Right - My great grandfather Hughes O. Jackson, and his son, my grandfather Georger O. Jackson.

Bottom Row, Left - My great great great grandfather Schirmer's house in Speyer, Germany. Philip Schirmer was his name. He was a political revolutionary, and the King of Bavaria threw him in prison. His wife pleaded for mercy, they were about to behead Philip. The King spared him on the condition he leave the country with his family immediately. Philip sailed to the US with his family, and the Bavarian govt. seized the house. It is still there, and is now the Speyer Tourist Headquarters.

Bottom Row, Right - my dad in Aruba. He was stationed with the US Army's 38th Division, Headquarters Company there during WW2. Their job was to protect the refineries on the island. Rough duty, eh?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top