Mysteries
With any genealogy project, there are plenty of unidentified photos that accumulate and brick walls to scale. Can you help?
Mystery Photographs
Can you help identify any of these pictures? Please contact me.
- California – portraits taken by Hartsook Studios in California
- Gephart – most taken in Anderson or Greenfield, Indiana
- Hughes Family – including a 19th-century album, many from Greencastle, Indiana, and several photographs from Muncie, Indiana
- Long and Miller – mostly from Kansas and Iowa
- Schwartz family
- Sollinger family
- Thal and Gettleson family – including photographs from the Reichart family, several from Detroit, Michigan, and others from Europe
Brick Walls
- Finding Rose
The story in my husband’s family is that his great-grandmother, Rose Main (married to Orpheus), was a foundling. It was passed along that she was left on someone’s doorstep as a baby. A 2002 e-mail from a cousin puts it this way: The story my mother told me about Gran was that she was aContinue reading “Finding Rose” - Who Was Ivan Teryokin?
The Mysterious Story of the Russian General I’m fortunate to have in my archives recordings of multiple interviews with my great-grandfather’s sister, Paula Thal Aminoff. In a few of them, she recalls the story of Ivan Teryokin, which was evidently a story frequently told and asked about. But both his relationship and his actual militaryContinue reading “Who Was Ivan Teryokin?”
California
These were all taken by Hartsook Studios in California. They were found among the belongings of Chester and Margaret Sollinger Long in Quinter, Kansas. Both Chester and Margaret had connections to Modesto, California, so these could be acquaintances or relatives from there. Clicking on the photograph will bring up the full picture and a space for comments.
Gephart Family
Most of these photos were taken in Anderson or Greenfield, Indiana. Clicking on the photograph will bring up the full picture and a space for comments.
Pierre Gephart, left 
Pierre and Joyce Gephart with unidentified woman on left 
Joyce and Pierre Gephart, right 
Joyce and Pierre Gephart, left 
Pierre Gephart, left 
Long and Miller Families
The photos below are mostly from Kansas and Iowa, and are most likely relatives or acquaintances of Jacob H. Long and Jemima Miller. Clicking on the photograph will bring up the full picture and a space for comments.
Nancy Copley children 
J.H. Long home in Quinter, Kansas 
J.H. Long home in Quinter, Kansas 
No.1 Ira and Rosa, No.2 Roy, No.4, George, No.5 Myron, No.6 Viola. “Harry took the picture so he is not in” 
Jemima Miller Long, left 
Chester and Margaret Long, left 
Haller studio, Forreston, Illinois 
University of Michigan, Marguerite Long, back row #5. Martha Cook?
Schwartz Family
Do you know either of these children? Clicking on the photograph will bring up the full picture a space for comments.
Sollinger Family
Can you help identify these photographs? Clicking on the photograph will bring up the full picture and a space for comments.
Margaret Sollinger Long, right 
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