I had a “eureka” moment in the last couple of days. I inherited some very old pictures of various people, some of which I gather are family members. Unfortunately not all the pictures are named and those named are guesses on my part as to who they were. Well my eureka moment came when I was notified on Ancestry.ca that there was a possible record that might pertain to someone listed in my family tree.  So I had to check it out. The person in my tree that the record was connected to was the second wife of my great-grandfather (on my dad’s mother’s side). I checked the family tree of someone who had this same person in their tree and to my utter glee I discovered what I believed to be the actual name of one daughter from that marriage that I believed to be in the picture above of my great-grandfather and his two daughters. It made perfect sense.  The names on this picture read “Eula” and “Eileanna”. The middle name of the person in this other tree was “Aileen” and the last name was Nunn.  To add to this thrill was also now there was a birthdate. These puzzle pieces just fit together. So I contacted the owner of this foreign family tree and to my delight this person is connected directly to this second family and Samuel Nunn.  So now I have true names to the nameless faces to a time long before I was born, a connection to a direct descendent for which I had a nameless face. I have to thank my dad’s sister Olive who died long before she should have and had an obvious passion for photography, and so left these valuable bits of history.

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