I finally decided to get busy and put some family pictures into my tree on Ancestry.com.  I found a box shoved way back on a shelf that was labeled as pictures from my mother’s side.  It turned out to be a treasure trove, because my mother and her mother had taken the time to write on each and every one of them who was who.  I was finally able to piece together how certain people we had visited when I was a little girl, were related to me.  In addition, I found a link to a side of the family that has been hard to fill in.  I found one photo of a young man, obviously it was his high school graduation picture.  On the back side was written the information that filled in many of the blanks regarding this side of the family, describing who he was, and who his grandmother was.  Doing the arithmetic showed that this young man had to have been born in 1912 in Cleveland, so I searched the census records and sure enough, there he was along with many of the people I had been searching for.   I had no idea we had ancestors from Cleveland.  My grandmother is long deceased, and my mother is not doing well.  So I am very grateful for the time they took to write information on those photos, and for the resources available from Ancestry.com that allowed me to update that side of my family tree. 

Janet Schultz

Hastings, Minnesota