Stephanie's Genealogy: Digitizing Grandma Moore's Photo Album

22 February 2020

Digitizing Grandma Moore's Photo Album

When I was up in Utah for my brother's wedding last April, I stopped by my Grandma Faun's house because I remembered having seen an old photo album of my dad's with photos from when he was a kid. I looked all around, but never found it. But I did find another album with black pages and photo corners holding each tiny black & white photo in place, and at first glance I guessed it might have been my Grandma Faun's album from when she was younger. I brought it home so we could digitize all the photos.

After going through each of them, I decided I'm pretty sure it must have been Grandma Moore's album (Avagail Taylor Moore, my great grandma, was Grandma Faun's mom). There were some photos of Avagail and her husband Ivan J Moore when they were younger, possibly before they were married or around the time of their marriage. And a number of pictures of my Grandma Faun and her siblings, Gwen & Guy, mostly when they were children. And then there were a few more recent pictures slipped in near the back. Unfortunately, many of the photos weren't labeled. I was able to identify some of the photos, and many remain unknown. (I was disappointed because I had hoped my grandma would be able to help identify some of them, but her memory isn't great anymore and she was only able to positively identify the people in two or three of them for me).

Here's the first page of the album:

And here are some of the digitized photos from it:

Ivan J Moore & Avagail Taylor Moore

Gwen & Faun Moore

5 Generations: John Augusta Moore, Ida Nevada Levi Moore, Dorthy Allen, Ivan J Moore, & Gwen Moore Allen

Avagail Taylor Moore with one of her children

{I don't know why, but there's something I just love about this photo with the cow!}

Avagail, Guy, Gwen, & Faun Moore with Orin White & Inez Rees White

back: Lois Taylor, Sherma Stephenson, VaLoy Morrell, Beverly Rees,

front: Guy Moore, Laraine Peterson, Renae Hunt Rees, Faun Moore, & Janice Brown

Don Blackburn & Gwen Moore, 1931

Don Blackburn, Gwen Moore, & Bonnie Blackburn

Faun Moore

Faun, Guy, & Gwen Moore, 1940

Guy Moore

Guy Moore the first time he stood up, 1940

Gwen & Dorthy Allen

Gwen & Faun Moore

Gwen Moore, Madge Moore Hieb, & Faun Moore, 1935

Inez Rees White

Ivan J Moore and his truck

Ivan J Moore & Avagail Taylor Moore

Joe Conder, John Moore Jr, Floyd, Ray, Glen, & Del, Ivan, Grace, Edith, Eva, & Ida Moore, Vera Jolley, Minnie & Elma Moore, Nora Hansen, Georgia King, Irene Moore, Grace Ashcroft, & Ransom Herring