Photo Finish: Heritage on Holiday

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“This picture from my grandfather’s album would get him talking about his wonderful childhood days on Long Island, about 1927. The photo is of my grandfather Jack Clune with his sisters Miriam and Hollie.”
Annette Santos
 
 
 
“This photo shows my uncle Harold Glenn and my grandmother Florence Ackerman Powell (in the back row), and my aunt Helen Ackerman and great-grandfather William Ackerman (in the front row), in Atlantic City during the summer of 1912.”
Jacki Barycki
 
 
“These are my great-aunts and my grandmother in North Carolina in 1941. From left is Ruby Mae West, Catherine ‘Toot’ West, and my grandmother, Bessie Louise West.”
Tammy Saul
 
From the July/August 2014 Family Tree Magazine 

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