By Lynn Heiden
I am a collector of old photos, sharing them every day on Twitter & Instagram & I especially enjoy researching any that have family names & blogging about them with a hope that they may eventually be returned back to their families. So this past week has been such a joy.
The story started last weekend when I received an email from a lady called Caroline from Wiltshire about a Blog that I wrote back last August about Walter, Matilda, Kathleen, Betty & Daisy Bartlett, as a result of buying two postcard photos with names on from Old Postcards. I was quite pleased I had managed to find out so much about the family who came mostly from Somerset, not too far from us in Dorset.
The story started last weekend when I received an email from a lady called Caroline from Wiltshire about a Blog that I wrote back last August about Walter, Matilda, Kathleen, Betty & Daisy Bartlett, as a result of buying two postcard photos with names on from Old Postcards. I was quite pleased I had managed to find out so much about the family who came mostly from Somerset, not too far from us in Dorset.
Caroline had Googled one of her family surnames BARTLETT & came across my Blog, she was astonished to see the photos & her family history. Walter was her Grandmother's brother. She gave me her phone number & we've spoken on the phone a couple of times this week, a lovely lady. I posted the photos off to her & she was thrilled to have them back in the family. She has been researching her family history for a while now. This is another family photo she shared with me to add to my Blog, showing her Grandmother's Wedding group & you can see Walter & Matilda far right.
I posted on my Facebook page & Twitter about this update to the Bartlett story & Old Postcards contacted me to say that after reading my Blog she realised that she still has more Postcards from the same family, so she sent me the links to a few still in her store which I have passed on to Caroline, brilliant! So, hopefully even if she doesn't want them for her collection, she will still have been able to see the postcards that some of her Ancestors wrote, back in the times when they didn't have telephones to keep in touch.
Another friend on Twitter @book_magpie Gill Edwards, also contacted me to say that she had bought three of the same family's postcards from Old Postcards too & that if Caroline wanted them she would gladly post them on to her, which she did the same day, how wonderful of her!
Another friend on Twitter @book_magpie Gill Edwards, also contacted me to say that she had bought three of the same family's postcards from Old Postcards too & that if Caroline wanted them she would gladly post them on to her, which she did the same day, how wonderful of her!
Everyone coming together to help each other is exactly what family history people are so good at! It echoes the ethos of #AncestryHour helping people every week find answers to their questions & queries.
Keep up the good work everyone.
If you haven't read the Bartlett Blog yet here's the Link: https://lynnswaffles.com/2018/08/24/walter-matilda-kathleen-betty-and-daisy-bartlett/
You can find Lynn online at Lynn's Waffles
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Keep up the good work everyone.
If you haven't read the Bartlett Blog yet here's the Link: https://lynnswaffles.com/2018/08/24/walter-matilda-kathleen-betty-and-daisy-bartlett/
You can find Lynn online at Lynn's Waffles
On Facebook www.facebook.com/lynnswaffles/
On Twitter twitter.com/LynnsWaffles
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