…I’ve posted her once before on Facebook, but here is the rest of the story…. I’ve had the copy of the National Geographic Magazine, which had been in a box of my grandfather’s belongings. Story was that his grandmother is the woman in an article about the Friesen Islands after WWII. Last week I had a visit with my cousin Anke, her father and my grandfathers were brothers. As we were going though items, I pulled it out, she said “oh we don’t need to go over that, my father said it’s not her” … as our visit progressed we went through a photo album, I pulled out a loose picture of their grandmother, my g-g-grandmother, Johanna Roelufs Hansen 1857-1937, we looked at it with the magnifying glass ….. she’s in front of the same house as the one in the article, “oh look” there is a flower pot at her feet, same as the article, turn the photograph over, hmmm there we go, “photographer’s stamp” same name as the photo credit in the article …. Reminder … don’t close off possibilities, always always always, TURN over the photographs and check the back...
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