About This Blog

This blog is a an extension of several previous blogs:

Grandma Brunken's Post Card Album

The first blog at http://grandma-brunkens-post-cards.blogspot.com/ was based on an old photo album that my Grandmother, Clara Marie "Mary" Brunken, had prepared.

Grandmother Brunken's Post Cards Album

The album contained postcards and photographs that were a century old and relate to my maternal family heritage. Given the extremely poor physical condition of the album, I felt a need to put the contents into a form that could be meaningfully passed on.  Simply extracting the postcards and photographs from the disintegrating album, and placing them in a more durable physical album still unlabeled did not seem to be adequate.  Posting the postcard and photograph images in a blog appeared to be a good way to recover and share these family memories.

All pictures in this album have been posted along with related photographs.  The blog covers the time period up to about 1920.  Additional pictures that are related to those in this blog and time period will be posted as they are discovered.

Hilda's Photo Album

The second blog located at http://hildas-photo-album.blogspot.com/ was based on a photograph album that my mother, Hilda Ida Brunken, prepared.

Hilda's Photo Album

All pictures contained in this album along with related pictures have been posted. This album covers the time period from about 1920 to 1930.  Additional related pictures will be posted as they are discovered.

About Grandma Brunken's Album Part 2

This follow-on of the previous blogs will focus on posting pictures of the William Leopold and Clara Marie "Mary" (Petersen) Brunken family beginning in 1930.  The children of William and Mary Brunken will marry and begin having families of their own. Pictures of the new in-laws and their families will be included.

My family history files contain related photographs, newspaper clippings and artifacts that were either loose in boxes that I inherited, shared by relatives or otherwise gathered during my genealogy research.  My plan is to include images of these items in this blog as grandmother might have done in her album.

By posting the photographs and captions along with related stories, it is my hope that this blog will not only preserve these memorabilia, but also provide a vehicle for sharing them with relatives and anyone else who might be interested.

If anyone knows of other related pictures and/or albums, I would like to learn of the same so that the images and stories they contain can also be included here.