Earlene Rae Bagley McIntosh

My husband's Grandma McIntosh passed away last week, and my mother in law asked if I'd put together a photo slideshow for her viewing.  I've spent the last few days/nights collecting photos from relatives and compiling everything into a slideshow.  The most rewarding part of this project for me was seeing photos of Earlene as a child and young woman, since I had never before seen any photos of her from before her wedding day.  Anyway, here it is:

FamilySearch.org Family Tree Photos

So I found out today about a new part of the FamilySearch.org website that I thought was a pretty cool idea.    If you go to www.familysearch.org/invite/photos you can upload your family photos, then tag the individual people within each photo with a name and a link to where each person is on your pedigree chart.  You can also create albums to organize your photos on the website, and share them with others online.  I have tried it out a little bit this afternoon, and it's very easy to use.  It looks like they're still working out a few things before they officially release this new photo feature on the site, but right now you can try it out, see what you think, and leave feedback for improvements.  I made several photos, so I can upload my photos and organize them by different branches of the family.  Anyway, I thought it was a cool idea, so I thought I'd share.

My Husband and His Family

When we stopped in Utah on our move to California we had a chance to visit Michael's maternal grandparents, Jim McIntosh & Earlene Bagley McIntosh.  I took a little time while we were there to look at some of the old family photos at their house, and I snapped some pictures of several photos with my own camera so we could have copies too.  These are the ones of Michael, his parents, and his siblings.  I hadn't seen most of these before.  (There were also several more cool old black and white photos of Grandma & Grandpa McIntosh and some of their other relatives, but I'm waiting to hear back from Grandpa McIntosh to confirm that it's alright with them before putting their photos on the genealogy blog too blog).

Michael's parents, Debra Kae McIntosh & Dick Michael Bradshaw

Michael with his sister, Melanie

Mel & Michael

Michael's mom, Debbie

Michael's dad, Dick

Michael with his sister Melanie and his brother Alan

Dick, Debbie, Michael, Melanie, & Alan

And the whole family: Dick and Debbie with Michael, Melanie, Alan, Annette, Jennie, and little Mindy

Slideshow Photo Captions

When I created this genealogy blog a few years ago I made a little slideshow of photos of ancestors and relatives of my husband and myself and added it to the right hand column on the blog.  Recently I took a look at that slideshow of family photos, and realized that anyone can click on a photo to zoom in and take a closer look, but there were no captions for the photos which would make it difficult to identify the names of the people in a specific photo.  So, I went through and added captions with names for each photo in the slideshow, if anyone happens to be interested in knowing who those photos are of.  And while I was at it I also added a handful of new photos to the slideshow.

The website was being a little finicky for some people who were trying to view the captions of the photos, so hopefully this will work better:  Here's a link that should take you directly to a page with all the photos and captions.  You can click on any photo to zoom in.  https://picasaweb.google.com/116169908705818414949/GenealogyBlogSidebarSlideshow?noredirect=1#

Take a look . . . there are almost 400 photos in the slideshow, and they include ancestors and relatives with the following surnames: Bradshaw, McIntosh, Chidester, Spohr, Graham, Monk, Ott, Wilson, Strunz, Taylor, Moore, Dick, Conners, Lively, Hunt, Fritz, Dobbins, Levi, Giffin, Hillier, Skillman, Conde, Soderberg, Bagley, Meservy, Young, Jefferis, Smith, Heath, Tucker, Pulsipher, John, Rees, Allen, Dowling, Clarkson, Fleming, Hyatt, Paramore, Stewart, Stratton, Mealey, Nelson, Bird, Moss, Snow, Brown, Tucker, Gifford, Bunker, Villardsen Johannesen, Christiansen, Fellows, Schaeffer, Fairchild, Flake, Kraatz, & Burgess.