I am pleased to announce a new sister site to the Familytomb. Jewel’s Heirlooms was established to recommend tips and products for the typical family genealogist. Jewel’s Heirlooms is also committed to saving orphaned heirlooms found in local antique stores. Photos, yearbooks, funeral cards and other items are offered at a price which ensures legitimate [...]
While sorting through my Lambeth heirlooms I found this photo. The cabinet card is labeled “Aunt May Sappington’s Family at Windsor, MO.” Back row from left to right: Roy, Claude, Earl Front row from left to right: Richard, Ray, May (Horning) Sappington.
Oliver Hazard Perry Bewley Occasionally I will find an area of the website where photos were lost in the computer crash and were not re-uploaded to the database. This is the case with the photos of the Bewley Family. I apologize to the Bewley family for this oversight. The pictures are now uploaded and [...]
Lambeth Bible The following are scans of the original pages from the Wesley and Eveline (Aveline) nee Rand Lambeth family bible. I had forgotten about these pages until yesterday when I was preparing some documents to share with another Lambeth researcher. My original scans were lost in the last computer crash so I have rescanned [...]
Needlework was done by Mary Wickham when she was a young girl. The inscription on the back of the framed work states it was done in 1861, Mary would have been about 7 years old at the time she completed this sampler. There was some discussion about whether Mary could have accomplished such a [...]
1923 Sedalia, Missouri Sylvania Bryan-Ash is the teacher.
Genelli 923 Olive Street, St. Louis, Missouri Genelli’s Photography was known to be in St. Louis in the years 1894, 1898,1899, 1900. The following photos came from the Ash/Bryan/Hays side of the family. Ancestors in the Familytomb database who are documented to have been in St. Louis, MO are the Bryan’s, Hays’s and the Garvey’s. That is [...]
Genealogy and Picaboo I have recently stumbled upon a photo sharing site called Picaboo You can create books and cards from your digital photos and share them with friends and family for free! You can also have your virtual book turned into a bound book for a fee. I downloaded the free program and within [...]
