Comments on: Do you have a photo of my great-grandmother?

By: amerongen

amerongen — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:36:43 +0000

P.S. In July our family will have its 100th anniversary of their arrival in the U.S. and we have invited Bram Pater from the Netherlands to be our guest for 3 weeks.

By: amerongen

amerongen — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:34:28 +0000

My blog shows my history of the Pater family from the 1500′s it may be of some information to you. There is also a Fraternal Order of Paters in the Netherlands of which I am a member. They organized quite a few years ago by joining together people with the family name of Pater or derivitaves of it they may be of immense help to you. Your posting was sent to me by one such member Bram Pater. If you were of the family Amerongen-Pater he would have made mention of it but there is a chance that one of the other Pater groups would be of help to you.

My blog is http://amerongen.wordpress.com
The Pater blog is http://www.fam-org-pater.nl/

My grandfather came to the U.S. in 1909 with his family. You should be able to find information of interest on either blog.

By: Kiril The Mad Macedonian

Kiril The Mad Macedonian — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:03:41 +0000

Not in the best condition?

Wow! I’d love it if the oldest pic in my collection was that good lookin’! ;-D

The original was so dark I was not able to clearly see the most important person in the photo, my 5 time married Great-Granny! ;-D

I took the photo to one of those Kodak machines that allows you to not only make copies, but lighten them up considerably.

Now I know what the one 1 woman who, as my research nemesis, tasks me so, looks like! ;-D

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sneakeasy/3364249998/