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Our ancestors had the weight of the world on their shoulders, quite literally: Check out the size of these hats. Admire the fashion choices of our forebears in these readers’ ancestral photos.
This is my ancestor Sadie Eleanor Anderson, who lived from 1876 to 1912.
» Deanna Sulonen
» Deanna Sulonen
This is my grandmother, Nellie Dillingham (born in 1894), and her sister Dica (born in 1889), in January 1912 in Iowa.
» Barbara Conner
» Barbara Conner
These are my ancestors Frederick and Elizabeth “Lizzie” (Hahn) Smith in the early 1900s.
» Erin Wilker
» Erin Wilker
From the May/June 2014 Family Tree Magazine
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