Of all the amazing antique and vintage photos of my family that I now have in my files and on my computer, perhaps the majority are of the Remine branch. I could post their photos every day for a year most likely and you wouldn’t see the same one twice. But photos only tell part of the story of a family. The other day I stepped into Ancestry and ended up clicking on a leaf-hint for Grandpa’s cousin Harold Remine (1st cousin, 1x removed). I discovered a page from a book of graduates of the University of Michigan from 1923.
I’ve written about Harold a few times. His career as an engineer for Montreal is touched upon in An Update on the Career of Harold Remine. A photo of his wife Lillian in her wedding dress is Lillian Heddle Remine. There are many more about Harold, as well as his sisters Therese (owner of Ramona Park at one time) and Genevieve Tazelaar.
Here is the entry about Harold.
B.S.E.E. I know means Bachelor’s of Science in Electrical Engineering. But the rest? Was he in the navy? OK, I looked that up. United States Naval Reserve Force. 1918. So he was in WWI. I wish I knew more about his service! What does “With Detroit Edison Co.” mean? That he got a job there and will now work there? That he already works there? And is the address where he lived or where he worked?
Take a look at the full page so you can see how others are listed. Many do not have addresses. I think if you click twice the photo will enlarge. (But I am not an engineer).
In another exciting genealogical discovery, someone read one of the posts here and confirmed an identity for me.
Do you remember me writing about my grandfather’s girlfriend before Grandma? Check this post out: Grandpa’s Girlfriend.
I figured out she had to be Margaret Christine Garthe, but of course I couldn’t know for sure. Well, her granddaughter found the post and gave a positive identification! How exciting is that! The best part is that I have more pix of her than I have posted on this blog that I can give to Margaret’s granddaughter! Events like this make me love the internet.
Here’s one of the other ones:
Margaret was such a cute girl.
I know this feeling and it always exciting – great to hear and thrilled you shared the experience!
It is such a great feeling! I’m so glad you’ve had it, too! Such is genealogy blogging, right?!
Magic
Thanks, Derrick!
I do love those yearbooks! They are a wonderful resource, especially when there are photos. I think the “with Edison” meant he was then employed there (whenever he filled out the questionnaire). And if he was in the reserves, would he have actually served in WWI?
And that’s amazing that Margaret’s granddaughter found your blog! I just love when that happens. Thank goodness for the Internet!!
I am thrilled she did. But I wrote back and gave her my email and haven’t heard. I wonder if she will know I wrote back. Is there a way for me to figure out her email from her posting on here?
Something made me think that he actually did serve, at least a bit. Now I”m not sure what. I need to start footnoting like you. But if I do I’ll never post!
Thanks for your thoughts on “with Edison,” too!
Do you get email notifications when someone comments on your blog? If so, at the bottom of that email you will find the commenter’s email address. I often email commenters who have information for me or who are cousins in addition to responding on the blog because I’ve found that some people never go back to see responses (including my father).
I do not get emails. I wonder if there is another way. More investigation is needed!
I like knowing when someone comments so subscribe to email notifications of new comments on my blog. Otherwise, I’d probably miss many since checking on the blog itself is not foolproof for me! Plus it gives me their email address……
I just checked on the Dashboard under Comments—for non-WP bloggers, you can see their email address under their name to the left of their comments.
Thank you!
Hope she responds!
She did and I heard from her mom, too! Thanks, Amy!
Oh, wonderful! I look forward to an update!
Yes, it’s not a big update, but still it is one.
Thank goodness for the internet is right – it has opened the doors to the flood gate of information we might never have discovered. What a way to end the year with Margaret’s granddaughter reaching out to you! Awesome! – Love the pictures too 🙂
Man, what a different world today because of the internet!!! Happy New Year, Sharon!!! xo
She is a cute girl. They look so young. I like the fact that he is taking the selfie the old fashion way, with a extension to push the camera button.
Thank you so much for mentioning that string or whatever it is! Yes, isn’t that cool?! They do look young! She had to be in college because that is what brought her to Kalamazoo.
Ancestry has been a good resource for me, but I now have more than 3,000 hints I haven’t followed up. Good grief…the number of people now involved in research is phenomenal. And overwhelming.
Check this out, Luanne. Someone posted a picture hint for me personally, and it was a photo of a page from a University of Texas yearbook in 1965 or 1966. Anyway, my name was included as a softball player on an intramural team that year and someone had tracked me down to share the page via Ancestry.
The crazy thing is I had forgotten about playing softball in college…tennis I remembered…softball forgot. Isn’t that wild??
Sheila, memory is the STRANGEST DUCK, isn’t it?! I’m sure I’ve done much the same. Some memories just wear the rug out where they keep playing back and forth–and others we completely lose. Now that you have it brought to your attention do memories of it come back or not? Do you remember playing? What it felt like?
And, yes, so many people involved that it does become overwhelming. I sometimes accept too many hints that bring too many people into my tree–then I don’t even know if they are legit or not. So annoying.
No, actually I still don’t remember a thing about it!
I have vivid memories of playing from the 8th. grade through high school so I wasn’t shocked that I played – just shocked that I had no memory. Crazy!
That is kind of scary, isn’t it? The more you learn about memory the scarier it is IMO. I have no doubt I have gaps in my memory just like that.
Our son Drew and his wife Carolina had gotten results from their 23 and Me kits and gave Pretty’s father one for Christmas which he totally loved. Turns out Caroline has a trace of a Jewish sect called the Kazetnik (sp) Jews who are supposedly brilliant. You may have heard of them. At any rate, Pretty and I privately thought that info boded well for our grandchildren!!
LOL, haha, I doubt it, not to burst your bubble! I’ve never heard of them before. And I wonder how they can even tell such a rare ethnicity. Hmm!
Oh, well.
Did you check the footnotes to see what the “double-dagger” ‡ symbol meant?
I don’t have access to the whole book, unfortunately. Maybe there would be a way to do that, but I’m not sure how :(.
Always a great feeling when you know you’re able to fill in blanks on other people’s family! And even more so when others are able to fill in your blanks.
Barb, so true! I hope I can reach Margaret’s granddaughter. I need to figure out how to find her email because she might not see my response!
Sorry about the long URL (web address) but have you seen this entry about Harold H. Remine? It might explain the address.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GyHiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA607&lpg=PA607&dq=“Detroit+Edison+Co.”+-nlrb+1403+Military+Avenue.,+Port+Huron,+Mich&source=bl&ots=atJit1ffFn&sig=YLc2NcfPxVNDXria3qCarcT6NDk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwic3vfjsMHfAhVJrxoKHffsAcUQ6AEwAHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=”Detroit%20Edison%20Co.”%20-nlrb%201403%20Military%20Avenue.%2C%20Port%20Huron%2C%20Mich&f=false
How great that the photos of your grandfather’s girlfriend have been positively ID’d. 🙂
Val, thank you for the link! That is more info to add to Harold’s story! Wonderful!
I am thrilled about the photos. But I have more and want to share them with the granddaughter–and I am not sure she will come back and read what I wrote to her. Do you know how to find the email of somebody who posts?
If you go to the comments page of the classic dashboard and look through the comments til you find hers, it should have her email address on it. If you don’t know how to get to it, go to
https://typeyourblogURLhere/wp-admin/edit-comments.php and replace ‘typeyourblogURL’ with your own (the one for your wordpress account).
I found it. Thank you!!!!!
Sorry, that wasn’t very clear and the damn thing turned into a link when I hadn’t meant it to! What I mean is, AFTER you replace it with your own blog URL, go to that address and you should find the comments page.
No worries. Thanks so much for your help, Val!
You’re welcome. 🙂
You have an amazing stash! Great finds!
Thank you!! Happy New Year, BTW!!!
Happy New Year to you also!!