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PIECING TOGETHER THE PUZZLE OF THE NICHOLS-CARNEY PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION PART VII
A trio of unidentified faces seek re-connection with their families. The final installment of photographs from the NICHOLS-CARNEY collection. TINYPE #1 2.5″x 3.5″, 1/6 plate This young woman is smartly dressed for her portrait in a rustic setting. … Continue reading
PIECING TOGETHER THE PUZZLE OF THE NICHOLS-CARNEY PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION – PART V
Would the real Elizabeth Bell CARNEY please step forward. Please let me know if you think the two babies featured are the same child. A serene young mother lovingly holds her baby. Both mother and child have such an endearing … Continue reading
PIECING TOGETHER THE PUZZLE OF THE NICHOLS-CARNEY PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION-PART IV
Mystery photos of an attractive young woman posing for a portrait. How is she related to the NICHOLS and CARNEY family? An attractive young woman poses for her portrait at the West Side Gallery of … Continue reading
PIECING TOGETHER THE PUZZLE OF THE NICHOLS-CARNEY PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION –PART III
PIECING TOGETHER THE PUZZLE OF THE NICHOLS-CARNEY PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION –PART III – HELENA MAY NICHOLS In 2016 I received a package. It included 16 photographs and assorted land documents for the ancestors and descendants of Charles Knerr NICHOLS (1865-1951), and … Continue reading
OLD PHOTOGRAPHS SERENDIPITY & COUSIN CONNECTIONS – The First CHARLES KNERR NICHOLS
Piecing together the Puzzle of the Nichols-Carney Photograph Collection Six months ago I received a package that included 16 photographs plus assorted land documents for the ancestors and descendants of Charles Knerr Nichols (1865-1951) and his wife Elizabeth Bell Carney(1865-1955). … Continue reading
OLD PHOTOGRAPHS SERENDIPITY & COUSIN CONNECTIONS
Old photographs with unnamed faces gaze at me, asking to be identified and treasured. Labeled photographs ask for their story to be revealed and shared. I’m fortunate that several of my ancestors saved and passed on so many pictures. However, … Continue reading
FAMILY HEIRLOOMS – MASONIC MEDAL
THOMAS A. NICHOLS – MASONIC MEDAL The NICHOLS family has just one other heirloom besides the Latin Bible noted in the preceding blog. It’s a Masonic Medal awarded to Thomas A. NICHOLS in 1882 by the Pennsylvania, Anthracite Lodge F&AM … Continue reading
Family Heirlooms -Latin Bible- 1581
FAMILY HEIRLOOMS Thanks to the prompting of a fellow Genealogy Blogger, Jeanne Bryan Insalaco of Everyone Has a Story, a blogging theme for November is to write about our family heirlooms and share their origins and stories. Those of us … Continue reading
A Tale of Three Orphans
When Helena Knerr Nichols died in 1875, Thomas A. Nichols was left to raise three children: Matthew, 18, Bertha, 13, and Charles, 10. They were old enough to help care for themselves. When Lillian Bull Nichols died in 1888, 64-year-old … Continue reading
THOMAS A. NICHOLS – Part X – THE MYSTERY OF LILLIE BULL
Three years ago, during my first Thomas Nichols fact-finding trip to the National Archives, I thought Thomas had disappeared from the Civil War records. The Civil War pension register identified Thomas A. Nichols with three children, Mary, Florence, and Howard … Continue reading
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