Yesterday I got a package with old photos from my Aunt. She is the one who is the designated family archivist since she lives in the desert where it's dry. Photos like dry and will likely last longer there.
She sent some pictures that I did not have already. I was pretty excited to see them! She had mentioned having a funeral program for my great great grandfather in there. I was very excited since that is one of my dead ends on the family tree. I was hoping for perhaps a father or mother's name, but nada. Though there is this weird crest on it that might be significant. IDK, maybe it was purely decorative.
What did blow my socks off was actual picture of this guy and his wife. I didn't think any existed.
This is Goodwin, my great great grandfather and family enigma. According to all my research he appears to not have existed before a census when he's married with two sons. He may have been born in Connecticut.
This is his wife Lucy. She was born in New York, but since her maiden name, Ring, and her first name were so common I'm having trouble being sure that the records I find for her are really hers.
One thing I did notice was that Lucy is wearing a lariat style necklace in this picture. In another picture her daughter-in-law, Eugenia, appears to be wearing the same necklace. I wonder if they were close before her son divorced this DIL.
Oh, and true to the period of history, there was a picture of my grandfather (their grandson) wearing long hair in finger curls. If it wasn't labeled I'd swear it was a girl.
I'll never understand why they did this to little boys. It's just wrong!!
