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I am not done with working to identify the old photographs from Aunt Ivy's album. Elsie also sent me this photograph as an email attachment showing the children of  George and Henry Ada Quisenberry Diuguid: Elsie wrote the following about the photo:  " There is not a date on the photo but from the clothing---my best guess is in  the late 30's or early 1940's....The photo was made at my grandmother Elsie  Freeman's home on HWY 272 in Cadiz.  According to Frances, they had a family  reunion either the 1st or 2nd Sunday in August each year. She said that  there would be at least 100 or more aunts, uncles, cousins, and extras who would attend.  She told me that it was a much anticipated event because the  food would be in abundance and placed on wagons in the front yard.  I did  question why they would wait until August since that is basically our hottest month---  In a voice that only Frances could use with me, she would  shake her head, smile, and then explain

So I wanted to tell you more about identifying some of the photographs in Aunt Ivy's album with the help of family friends. In a lot of ways, the people I have interacted with are almost close enough to kin. I mentioned Frances Sizemore as my genealogy mentor and friend. Her husband's great grandfather and my second great-grandmother were siblings, making us...third cousins one generation removed (see this link here for help determining cousin relationships ). Frances herself was a first cousin to my dad's first cousin, Inez. But the connection between them was on Inez's father's side while my dad and Inez were cousins on her mother's side. That did not make us blood-related to or cousins in any way, but I will say close enough to kin. I guess you could say we were what is called " fictive kin ," a term sometimes used in foster care and adoption. Wikipedia says fictive kinship is a term used by anthropologists and others that are social ties not base

I mentioned to you back in February that I was lucky enough to have been given Aunt Ivy's photo album on a recent trip to Kentucky. My first post about the photo album is here: A 108-Year-Old Valentine . I got down to business and scanned all the photographs from that album shortly thereafter. Those scanned images now reside on my external hard drive and backed up on a jump drive as well. There were approximately twenty or so photographs in the album plus a news clipping of Aunt Ivy's obituary and an old Christmas card. The Christmas card and at least two of the photographs tucked in the album were from my cousin's mother's side of the family (the Poindexters), but most all of the others were actually placed in the album slots and undoubtedly were family and friends that Aunt Ivy and probably her husband F. Travis Diuguid knew. Many of the photographs are cabinet cards taken by Anderson of Hopkinsville, Kentucky . Some of the others are Real Photo Post Cards (RP