The Skeletons in My Closet collection is my ancestors' "family album". Some of the photos have been slightly altered; many have not.... you decide which is which. Each album page was first created by hand with paper and various embellishments, using an original photo. Then the pages were scanned and digitized to create these fun prints. This photo from the family album was taken by my Grandmother Dell with her trusty Brownie camera. It includes two of my great aunts, an aunt and my mother. This listing is for a 5x7 art print on heavy matte paper Frame and props not included Watermark will not appear on purchased print The Skeletons in My Closet photos are also available on their own in a separate listing.
Yesterday I was visted by some cousins of my mother, who, interested in the research that I had done came around to “compare notes”. They ...
Western State Lunatic Asylum and Martha Saul is my follow-up post on husband's great-great grandmother, committed to the asylum in 1864.
If you could even guess the nature of this castle’s secret, said Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore, you would get down on your knees and thank God it was not yours.
Marjorie Bruce, although her father was Robert "the" Bruce, she didn't exactly lead a cushy life as the daughter of a king. Kept in a cage by Edward I for over a year, sent to a nunnery by Edward II for 8 years- and finally set free in 1314... only to be given to Walter Stewart as a "reward" at the age of 18. A year later she went into premature labor after a riding accident and gave birth to a son, Robert II of Scotland. Her last words were "He's a laddie; I ken he's a laddie; he will be King." She died a few hours later. Click the image for a larger view.
Heritage travel allows you to explore and connect more deeply with your family history. Walk where your ancestors walked and experience their culture!
CHamoru women have a legacy of leadership that helped keep the culture and history of their people alive. The earliest accounts of ancient CHamoru society state that women maintained their family’s wealth, had final say in the governance of both their home and village and were the primary caretakers of their children and land.
It is from Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert Bruce, that all the royalty of Scotland is descended, and for that matter, all the Kings a...
A belief that runs deeply in the feminine being is the idea that she is responsible for everyone around her. A belief that makes women feel responsible for the world around them. A belief that tethers a woman to external expectations and diminishes the natural expression of her femininity.
Mother's Day can make us reflect on the changes made available for women in just the last 40 years.
Exactly one hundred years ago today a twenty-four-year-old young mother and her two-year-old son boarded the S.S. Carmania in the port of Fiume, Hungary (now Rijeka, Croatia). A segment of the S.S. Carmania list of passengers departing Fiume, Hungary on February 13, 1909 Bound for New York City, where her husband was sowing seeds for their new life after his own immigration in 1906, Ilona and young Ferencz would have a difficult seventeen-day sea voyage which culminated with their detainment at Ellis Island's hospital. It must have been a tearful goodbye that she waved to her country after stepping onto the ship in the port of Fiume. No doubt she was troubled with concerns for her little one's safety as she left the family and country that she knew and began the trip across the Atlantic. Below is a photograph of the little train station in Ilona's home village of Legrad where she may have said her last goodbyes to her family before her departure. One hundred years later, Ilona's descendants are well-established in the United States. With over one hundred children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and more living in cities from coast to coast, she could not have known what impact she and her husband's decision to emigrate would have on the generations to follow. On this one hundred year anniversary of Ilona's emigration, 100 Years in America honors Ilona (Bence) Ujlaki for the courage she exhibited throughout her life and for the love she had for her family that stills reverberates today. Thank you, dear Grammy, for the inspiration of your life. You are loved and remembered fondly. For more on Ilona's immigration to the United States and a glimpse into the journeys of other immigrant women who traveled as she did, see America at last! Ilona's arrival at Ellis Island, 1909. Sources (in order of appearance): Manifest, S.S. Carmania, February 1909, page 250, lines 21 and 22, Ferenczne & Ferencz Ujlaki, ages 26 and 2; “Passenger Record,” digital images, Statue of Liberty – Ellis Island Foundation (http://ellisisland.org/EIFile/popup_weif_5a.asp?src=%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Ftif2gif%2Eexe%3FT%3D%5C%5C%5C%5C192%2E168%2E4%2E227%5C%5CIMAGES%5C%5CT715%2D1209%5C%5CT715%2D12090250%2ETIF%26S%3D%2E5&pID=101530100288&name=Ferenczne%26nbsp%3BUjlaki&doa=Mar+02%2C+1909&port=Fiume&line=0021 : accessed 2007). Ilona Ujlaki with baby son Ferencz Ujlaki, Legrad, Hungary. Black and white photographic print. Circa 1906-1907. Privately held by Lisa, [address for private use]. 2009. Željeznicka stanica Ortiloš (Legrad, Croatia train station) photographed by Z.G. Digital image. Circa 2008. Privately held by Z.G., [address for private use]. 2008. Helen Ulaky. Black and white photographic print. Circa 1947. Privately held by M.T., [address for private use]. 2009. Lisa with Helen Ulaky. Polaroid color print. Circa 1970s. Privately held by Lisa, [address for private use]. 2009.
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Do you know more about your male or female ancestors? Men are definitely easier to research. They owned land and were listed as the heads of household on U.S. Federal Census records before 1850. W…
Beautiful images of Shakespearean Heroins from antique steel engravings. These amazing engravings are from a Victorian era book c 1860 titled: "The Heroines of Shakespeare: Comprising the Principal Female Characters in Plays of the Great Poet" by The London Printing and Publishing Co., London - Illustrated by J. W. Wright & Others Enjoy! Play: All’s Well that Ends Well - HELEN Play: Antony and Cleopatra - CLEOPATRA Play: As You Like It - ROSALIND Play: As You Like It - AUDREY Play: As You Like It - CELIA Play: Coriolanus - VIRGILIA Play: Cymbeline - IMOGEN Play: Hamlet - OPHELIA Play: Henry IV - ELIZABETH MORTIMER, LADY PERCY Play: Henry V - Queen consort CATHERINE OF VALOIS Play: Henry VI - LADY GREY Play: Henry VI - Queen consort MARGARET ANJOU Play: Henry VI - Queen consort MARGARET ANJOU another view Play: Henry VI - QUEEN MARGARET ANJOU - a third view Play: Henry VIII- 1st wife QUEEN KATHERINE Play: Julius Caesar - Wife of Brutus, PORCIA CATONIS Play: King John - CONSTANCE Play: King Lear - QUEEN CORDELIA Play: Macbeth - LADY MACBETH Play: Measure for Measure - MARIANA Play: Measure for Measure - ISABELLA Play: Merchant Of Venice - JESSICA Play: Merchant of Venice - PORTIA Play: Merry Wives Of Windsor - ANNE PAGE Play: Merry Wives of Windsor - MRS FORD Play: Much Ado About Nothing - BEATRICE Play: Much Ado About Nothing - HERO Play: Much Ado About Nothing - MARGARET Play: Othello - DESDEMONA Play: Richard III - Queen consort ANNE NEVILLE Play: ROMEO & JULIET - JULIET Play: Taming of Shrew - BIANCA Play: Taming Of Shrew - KATHERINE Play: Tempest - MIRANDA Play: Titus Andronicus - LAVINIA Play: Troilus and Cressida -CRESSIDA Play: Twelfth Night - MARIA Play: Twelfth Night - VIOLA Play: Twelfth Night - OLIVIA Play: Two Gentlemen Of Verona - JULIA Play: Two Gentlemen Verona - SILVIA Play: Winters Tale - MOPSA Play: Winter’s Tale - PERDITA Grins and Giggles, Evelyn
