I read a file of family letters yesterday. The title of the folder in looping handwriting is “Stallforth Sisters and Brothers.†The letters (about 50) run from 25 May 1945 to June 1949 with one coda written in August 1964. These are my first impressions after leafing through the letters, which are in English, German, […]
I found this card with my grandmother’s handwriting  in a stack of photographs from the 1980s — Woodstock, NY to Anna Maria, FL.  The green 3 x 5″ card with loopy handwriting, is typical of Gioja’s filing.  What these particular odds and ends had in common, I do not know.  The card seems an appropriate image […]
Adie was Estebena Risse, our great, great aunt. She was Anita Risse’s sister – twin, I believe. She brought up Gumma and Dita after their mother died. They called her ‘Adie Dear,’ and she had been an intimate member of their household since their births. Both Adie and her sister died of stomach cancer not too […]
It occurs to me that I have a lot of information about the family in my head to go along with all the letters and photographs that I have snagged from the various house cleanings out that I have helped with over the years. I’ve been snagging things for years. And Gumma snagged things before […]