Dear Family Members,
Thank you all so much for your help in identifying the people in these photographs? I hadn't a clue on most of them, so your suggestions were most helpful. Above each photo is the information that you all gave me.
Thank you so much for your help. Now just click here for some pictures of people that I do know. Please click any of the following links for the beginnings of my genealogy, which is by no means complete since I need to write some brief biographies. The information found within these pages is most of what I've learned and compiled over the last fifteen years.
- ancestors of my maternal grandfather Victor Lee Fortin.
- ancestors of my maternal grandmother LuVern Hazel Meuli.
- ancestors of my other maternal grandfather John Henry "Jack" Helms.
- ancestors of my paternal grandfather M.O. Stark.
- ancestors of my paternal grandmother Rosalie Lingner.
Thank you all again for your supportive words and help. Please stay in touch.
Love,
Shauna Rae
According to Mom, the woman on the right is my great-grandmother, Imogene (Johnson) Meuli (later Tucker). The woman next to her is Dora (Johnson), her sister.
The baby is still unknown, but my guess is that it's Bruce Fortin, Grampa Victor's nephew.
Mom wasn't sure, but I think that the man is Grampa Victor as a younger man, but I'm not perfectly sure of that.
Dad guessed that this was a hydro-electric dam along the Columbia River.
According to Linda, this girl is Pat Dickinson (Deshazer).
The baby appears to be my mom as an infant. According to Linda the rest are from left to right, "Jim Swanson, Gene Johnson and I know it is Uncle Duane Meuli" holding my mom.
This family appears to be pictured near Eureka (from the landscape). Mom, Linda and I all agreed that the man looks like a Helms, but the woman and children are completely unknown.
Nobody had an answer for this photo or the remaining ones.
I believe that this is great-gramma Imogene's backyard, but no one knows the girl.
I think the fellow is a Meuli, maybe my great-uncle Duane Meuli, but I don't know the two gals.
It sure is pretty here. After having just returned from my 20-year high school reunion, when Ken and I visited the portions of the Kootenai and the Flathead Rivers, I'm pretty sure that it's not either of them, but I need to do more research.
Does anyone know if there is/was an ice skating rink in Lake, Flathead or Lincoln Counties in Montana? Could this be in Washington or Utah?
Just a bunch of cute 5 to 8-year-olds. Looks like the picture was taken in the 1940's or 1950's, but who knows.
This is probably a friend of my Gramma LuVern's, but that's only a guess.
*Click* here to see the family pictures on my Mom's side that I do have.