My mother's family at my parent's wedding, 75 years ago tonight.
I was out doing my walking this afternoon and my thoughts turned to this post. I was thinking about doing a recap on February when I realized that today was March 2, which was both my father's birthday and my parent's wedding anniversary. At that point my mind turned to the year and I realized March 2, 1947 was exactly 75 years ago.
The second day of March was always a fun day in our house. I don't remember big parties, but I remember a happy air with the double celebration. My mother would recount that there was a blizzard and some of the New York relatives didn't make it to Hartford. But many of them did and it was a great celebration.
I'm remembering my parents' happy stories of the day, but I'm also realizing that, with a couple of exceptions, everyone in this photograph has passed away. Very sadly, the cute little girl, my cousin Arlene, (third from the left in the front row), passed away last year.
Once again, I so regret that I didn't ask more questions to the people in the photograph. It's not that I wasn't interested in the stories of Ukraine and the early years of my family in America, but that I wasn't interested enough. I found their recollections interesting and I spent a lot of time discussing my mother's memories of growing up, but I didn't write anything down. There aren't that many things I regret, but this is something I regret.
What are your memories of your grandparents/great-grandparents? I have my father's family tree, but very little data on the rest of the family. I've been spending time trying to do additional research these last few weeks and I may have found a few leads on my mother's family.
As ever, thanks for visiting and take good care.
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How nice to see that picture of the family. I looks like a loving happy crowd. So sorry none of them are left, but you do have some good memories of the happy times your parents had. I think we'd all like to know more about our ancestors. I know I would too. I remember once seeing a wedding picture of my maternal grandparents How handsome and beautiful there were. In their older years there had changed a lot.
Lovely tribute! Some days it's difficult to look at old family photos and realize most have gone on before.
Due to geographic distances, I've little memories of my grandparents. Like you said, I'll always regret not having asked more questions.
As I age I think of the questions I wished I'd asked of my parents when they were still alive. I didn't really know my grandparents, not like my daughters knew theirs or my grandchildren know me. We just didn't have that relationship.
Like yourself, I also have regrets at not having asked questions about my family when parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were still living. Your family was much larger than my own. My family was relatively small and these unanswered questions have left an unsolved mystery when I tried family genealogy a ew years ago.
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