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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 7:57 am
I don't understand - isn't that Jan's picture from the last archive?
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 8:01 am
GAL: I didn't really pay any attention. It may be the same, in which case I don't understand either unless Phatcat was just trying to test posting images. In which case, it sounds to me like there may be the 'IE only saves images in .bmp' problem, perhaps? Phatcat: If that is the case, try clearing your temporary internet files by clicking 'Tools - Internet Options' and then click 'Delete Files', check the box for 'Offline' too, and click 'Ok' 'Ok' to complete. This is the recommended method to resolve the problem of IE only saving images in .bmp format.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 8:08 am
Phatcat, if you have 'Paint' software on your system, you can easily do a 'save as' to change the bmp image to a jpg or gif file---and you can resize pics without knowing anything about using that software, too. (If I can do it, you can, too.)
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 8:22 am
Oh, I see Phatcat - you were working on some of the posted photos - lolol. How are you, BTW? Glad to hear your mother's doing better. Ready for a new BB season? Can't wait to see your family pictures, too!!
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Phatcat
Member
03-08-2004
| Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 12:07 pm
I'M SO EXCITED!! How wonderful it is to hear from my dear friends...GAL, DRAHEID, AND HERCLE!! I saved the images as .gif's and resized them. Now I'll try again on the other three I worked on...Lobster's parents, Twinkie's Dad and Ducky's mom. If any of you have photo's that need retouching, I'll be happy to do that for you. Maybe there is someway I could email them to you to save board space. Let me know. Gal, I'm doing great. Sure am glad to get back to my puter, but I have tons of archives to read to get caught up with everybody. I was so sad to learn that precious Fly had died. She was such a dear person. I hope all is well with you and your family. Is your brother still in Afghanistan? I've been keeping you all in my prayers. And yes...I am looking forward to the new BB season!

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Phatcat
Member
03-08-2004
| Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 12:12 pm
Yay...it worked! Ok, now I'll try the other two.}

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Phatcat
Member
03-08-2004
| Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 12:24 pm

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Phatcat
Member
03-08-2004
| Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 1:09 pm
Okay. This is my mom in about 1919 and my dad in about 1920.

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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 1:25 pm
(Ahem, it's about time, PC!!) ) Awwww, these are priceless! Such sweetie pies. Love the facial expressions!!!! Um, somebody cut bangs (on your dad) just like I did on my poor kids. Entirely worth the wait!
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Daydreamer
Member
09-16-2003
| Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 2:58 pm
I love this thread! What great pictures. Here is my Grandfather who used to be a big band singer in the 30's and 40's. I don't know what year this picture was taken but he looks so young it had to be about 1932 or somewhere close to that. He's no longer with us but we all have great memories of "Pop" singing at every family function we ever had. He loved Frank Sinatra and Perry Como. 
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 5:09 pm
Wow, now that is COOOOLLL!!! He's a cutie, too, Daydreamer. Have any recordings of his?
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Daydreamer
Member
09-16-2003
| Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 6:58 pm
Awww, thanks HP! He actually did make some records when he was young but no one in the family knows what happened to them. A few years before he passed away he went to one of those recording booths (I don't know if they have them anymore, you would go in and pick a song and they had the music and you would sing to it and make a recording) well, anyway, he recorded "Misty" and one of my cousins made CD's for all of us. Do you know that he's been gone for 15 years and I still can not listen to that CD without crying my eyes out? By the way HP - your mother is absolutely gorgeous!!
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 7:24 pm
Great pics and awesome memories!
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 7:32 pm
You are so lucky to have that CD. That is really special. Wonder what happened to the old records. Yw, DD. What a sweet expression of your love for your grandfather. Maybe there is an online site where you can try to trace a copy, if you know anything at all about the recording. Does anyone in your family keep a written (or oral---videotaped) family history? I'll bet your family is fascinating! My DH's sisters started videotaping their parents when each started getting up there in age. It is incredible--both are now dead, but their images and words are recorded. They tell wonderful stories about their parents, sisters and brothers, growing up, and schooling, etc. It is a treasure to the family. Thanks, my mother certainly was beautiful. She still gets compliments about her skin, and she is 76 now!
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Phatcat
Member
03-08-2004
| Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 10:23 pm
Daydreamer, your Pop is sooo handsome! And Herkcle, I messed up again! The photo on the left is my dad...and the one with the bad bangs is my mom. She still drives, went to college two years ago to get an associate degree in child care. She was working at my sister's daycare at the time. She has four children, 10 grandchildren and 21 great grandkids. My dad died four years ago with Alzheimer's. He was a Fire Chief in Nashville...and the most wonderful Dad. I miss him terribly. Daydreamer, all the kids called my Dad "Pop".
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Phatcat
Member
03-08-2004
| Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 10:29 pm
Dern Herckle...I have now spelled your name wrong two times. Sorry!! LOL
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Daydreamer
Member
09-16-2003
| Friday, May 14, 2004 - 8:43 am
Thank you, Phatcat. Yes, I have to admit that my Grandfather was very handsome. HP, I've tried finding anything on line that I could about my Grandfather's recordings or the band he used to sing with (see the AK in the picture? - I think it was the Al Kalla band) but I can't find anything at all. He sang in the NJ/NY/Philly areas. He was never really famous, but I guess he was pretty well known in those areas. I wish I could ask my Grandmother more but she is pretty sick right now. I'll have to see what else my Mom remembers. I love the idea of the videotape! I wish we had thought of that years ago. That would be a wonderful thing to have.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Friday, May 14, 2004 - 12:04 pm
Daydreamer, now that you've posted it here, it may be that someone knows of a contact who might be useful. That would be wonderful! I remember years ago getting a copy of a song I adored as a kid, [The Great Gildersleeves. If you're not my age (56), then you probably have no idea who that was]--from a company in California that finds records for a small fee. Sorry, I can't remember the name of the company except that it was in California. I probably spotted their ad in the back of some magazine. Phatcat, I never even noticed how you spelled my name and you can call me HP; it's easier! Your Pop must have been a wonderful man. I'm sorry to hear about the Alzheimer's. I kinda thought the pic of the child in white looked like a boy, but I've got pics of myself where I look like a boy, too, so . . . So that's your mom; what a great smile she has!! And she got an associate's degree just two years ago?!! That is really something. Good for her! Does she still work? My mom has been retired since she turned 62 and loves it. She putters in her garden and on the computer (has written her autobiography and researches our family's genealogy thru online searches and follow-up by visits to sites (cemeteries, libraries, churches, etc.) to collect memorabilia/records as she traces them.) She actually met a relative (distant) online that she never knew she had. Now they are good friends and visit with each other twice a year. She still drives, attended her high school reunion just last weekend, and watches many of the shows I watch--so we compare notes a lot. (She was one of those who kept John Stevens on AI for as long as he was.) She has promised to send me more photos as soon as my niece and nephew get them ready to send as online files.
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Phatcat
Member
03-08-2004
| Saturday, May 15, 2004 - 8:59 pm
HP, your mom is just beautiful. Wish I could read her autobiography...sounds like she has had a full and wonderful life. Give her my blessings for many more years. I look forward to seeing more of your family photos. Here are a few more of mine.

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Phatcat
Member
03-08-2004
| Saturday, May 15, 2004 - 9:18 pm
Arghhh! I took too long editing. Anyway...first top left is Mom's paternal grandparents seated front row center and their children. Her dad is 1st left on second row. Top right is Mom (center), sister Madge (left) and sister Floy. She has another sister and one brother. Madge died a few years ago with breast cancer. The rest are alive and kicking!! Lower left: Mom's high school graduation...1936 Lower Right: Dad's maternal grandparents front center. His mom is standing behind her mother. Family reunions were a hoot...with all these kids!!
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Daydreamer
Member
09-16-2003
| Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 6:08 am
Wow, Phatcat, your pictures are amazing! Your Mom looks beautiful in her graduation picture. Do you have any idea what year the one with your Dad's grandparents was taken? I love the clothes and the hairstyles.
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Phatcat
Member
03-08-2004
| Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 7:01 am
Thanks, Daydreamer. My best guess on the photo is 1903, but it might have been even earlier. My grandmother had two children, her husband died young, she then married my granddad...and my dad was born in 1917. This picture was taken before she was married the first time. I'm really thankful someone in my family had the good sense to preserve these wonderful pictures.
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Phatcat
Member
03-08-2004
| Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 7:37 am
Here is a copy of a letter written to the family by my precious grandmother in 1948. She died at age 96, and I never heard her say an ugly word...not ever darn... and never once saw her angry. I look forward to the day I will see her again.

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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 9:24 pm
Phatcat, your lovely mother reminds me of an actress from that era, can't think who off the top of my head. In the 3-shot of your mom and her sisters, I especially love how Floy was dressed! And I am so sorry you lost your Aunt Madge. But you are so lucky to have your mom and your Aunt Floy and such great, old pictures of all your family members. The letter is remarkable, too! I'd guess not too many families have photos like these. Shows you that you should take all those family reunion shots, even if they are difficult to pose nowadays, huh?
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Riviere
Member
09-09-2000
| Thursday, May 20, 2004 - 2:49 pm
You should find www.deadfred an interesting site and better format for old ancestral photos.
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Resortgirl
Member
09-23-2000
| Sunday, June 13, 2004 - 6:37 am
Here's a picture of my biological Grandma. I never got the chance to meet her as she died in an auto accident at the age of 48. I didn't find that side of the family until 1993. I'm so glad I have some pictures though. She was about 20 here:

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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, June 13, 2004 - 8:21 am
Cool photo, RG. She looks just like a movie star.
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Ms_kitty
Member
07-11-2004
| Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 4:36 pm
She is absolutely Beautiful!
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