Researching our family history - fascinating finds!

Back in August I wondered momentarily what I would do to keep busy with all of the free time that was suddenly thrust upon me when the girls announced they were giving softball a rest. It didn't take long for me to fill the empty hours! I've been spending many of those weekends and evenings feverishly researching every branch of our family tree.

Recently I found another old photo courtesy of some extended family member also building a tree with common ancestors. On that tree I found a few photos of 3rd, 4th and 5th generation ancestors from me. In the photo below is Bertha Violet (Hughes) Edmunds (my great grand aunt), her mother Sarah Jane (Neel) Hughes (my 2nd great grandmother) and Delileh (Sarah Jane's mother - my 3rd great grandmother). These relationship designations are courtesy of Ancestry.com - they are the experts. I'm not sure who the baby is on Bertha's lap, but her children were born between 1910-1915, so I'm guessing it's one of her children which would make this photo approx. 100 years old. Isn't it amazing how you can see the family resemblance in each of these women from one generation to the next?! They lived in the Indianapolis area during this time.

Technology has changed so many aspects of our lives and not all good. But I am so thankful that it enables me to find information and photographs of long gone ancestors that I could have never known, but who are shared by others through photos and family documents that I can find from the comfort of my home!