In This Issue

For Your Interest
Dead Fred's Meditation Corner
Words From The Reunited
Letters To The Archivists
Photo of the Month
Pick and Shovel
What's New In The Database?
Recognize These Faces?
Dead Fred's Dead Ringers
DeadFred.com Creative Writing Contest

For Your Interest

Don't forget about the DeadFred Creative Writing Contest.
Click here for more information.

Just a reminder: If you have any questions in regards to how to submit a photograph to our website please check out our FAQ page here.

New feature coming soon! Check back within the next few weeks for the new 'key word' search!

If you have a quote or anecdote for our Meditation Corner, send it to us at meditation@deadfred.com.

Words From The Reunited

I have been researching my family and found a number of photographs of my relatives from the Miller family album from Philadelphia, Pa. on the Dead Fred web site. My name is Susan Cannell and I knew I was named after a Susan Miller who was my grandmother on my father's side. She was married to Humberston Skipwith Cannell Senior. My father was Humberston Skipwith Cannell Jr. He used the name Skipwith Cannell or Skip Cannell.

I was the 7th child my father had, born when he was 62. He was married three times, first to a Kathleen Bigger Eaton, (no children) second to Juliette Del Grange (2 children) and finally to my mother Catherine Pettigrew (five children).

Would it be possible to obtain good copies of any of the following photographs?
Sue Cannell (Susan Ridgeway Miller married to Humberston Skipwith Cannell Sr., her parents Daniel Leeds Miller Jr., Anna Pancoast Ridgeway, and Daniel Leeds Miller Jr. parents Daniel Leeds Miller Sr and Hannah Nicholson). I think she is only identified as H. Nicholson. I have more information such as dates and place of birth, marriage and death and would like to find out more about the Miller family album. Thank you for your assistance.

Sincerely,
Susan Ann Cannell

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I may have identified John Keith Pardee. He was born in 1895, which would have made him 19 years old at graduation time in 1915. He was from Delta Cente, and I believe he would have had to go to Lansing High School. He was the son of my Great Uncle Frank Leslie Pardee. I am sure this is he, unless someone else has other info indicating him being a different person than I perceive him to be.

Thanks,
Judy Haynes...........love the site by the way!!!!

Letters To The Archivists

I just heard a piece about your site on KUAF's Ozarks at Large program. They told about a writing contest you were having. Maybe I'm being dense, but I can't find anything about this contest on your site. Could you please let me know how to see the photo that you're supposedly asking people to write about, and what the rules of the contest are?

Thank you.
-Elizabeth Morsund

(Details on the writing contest may be found below)

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Wow, what a great idea and a great site! I just stumbled upon it. I commend all of you for your work in helping others. I hope to locate some photos here one day.

-Kelly Eason (Wiggins)

Whether you have a bone to pick or a eulogy to offer, send your thoughts to letters@deadfred.com.

Photo of the Month

http://www.deadfred.com/photos/22320.jpg
United States
Comments: Purchased at Montgomery Street Antique Mall in Fort Worth, TX. Air force photo.
Truck says U.S. Air Force. Can't read the names on the uniforms.

Pick and Shovel Highlights

Subject: Priest Family
Author: Betty
Date:   7/28/2003 1:50 pm CDT  
Hello Everyone I am new to the genelogy thing and to the deadfred website. I am researching my mothers family. Her maiden name used to be Priest. I am from Maine. Her fathers name was Howard. Any help anybody could give me would be greatly appriected.

Subject: family geneology
Author: Cindy Grainger
Date:   8/11/2003 4:35 pm CDT  
Grainger family tree Looking for family members from Yorkshire, England that moved to Canada to Wisconsin, then to North Dakota, and then to Poplar, Montana If any one can help me I will greatly appreciate it. thanks cindy

What's New In The Database?

Yearbooks & Photo Albums:

School Annual 1905 Williston Seminary, Easthampton, MA
School Annual 1916 Massillon Ohio High School

Enter Last Name

Recognize These Faces?

(Click on photo for larger view)

http://www.deadfred.com/photos/22002.jpg
c1890s 2 Women - Music
IA

http://www.deadfred.com/photos/22039.jpg
United States
Comments: This photo is in my grandparent's album. They lived in Webster Co., IA at the time

http://www.deadfred.com/photos/22115.jpg
Comments: dramatic feathered hat and fur wrap

http://www.deadfred.com/photos/22319.jpg
Comments: Purchased at Montgomery Street antique mall in Fort Worth, TX.
Names on back from top left to right: Ed, Joe, Ann, Frances, Gustie.
Bottom: Nora, Barbara (mother), Hattie, Albert (Dad), Tip

http://www.deadfred.com/photos/22321.jpg
Houston, TX United States
Comments: Photo purchased at the Montgomery Street Antique Mall in Fort Worth, TX. Wedding portrait. Woman with dark hair, flowers.

http://www.deadfred.com/photos/21866.jpg
1931 Man with Truck
Location: Mena, AR United States
Comments: 1931 Man and Truck. I've included an enlargement of the shield emblem on the door panel. It looks like U S in big letters.

http://www.deadfred.com/photos/19204.jpg
Emma
Location: Woolwich, London England
Date: 1851-1900
Comments: Written on back: your loving Sweetheart, Emma. Photographer¹s address: 101 Wellington St. Photos Donated to DeadFred.com by Donna Sterling. Donna says, ³I have a ton of photos my mother found that need a home. I tried to find their family to no avail. Maybe DeadFred can.

Dead Fred's Dead Ringers

Here's a new challenge. Joe seems to think the subject of this Archive photo looks a lot like...well, we'll let you decide for yourself.



Give it your best shot. Send your feedback to deadringers@deadfred.com.

Last month's results:



Muriel Hemingway
Charlie Sheen
Rex Reed
Max Baer (Jethro from Beverly Hillbillies)
George Clooney
Elvis
Andrew Luster
Brooke Shields
Freddy Mercury (Queen)

Thank you for your participation!

DEAD FRED GENEALOGY PHOTO ARCHIVE SEEKING CREATIVE WRITING ENTRIES
(Fayetteville, Arkansas ­ July 2003)

Dead Fred Genealogy Photo Archive is pleased to announce the second DeadFred.com Creative Writing Contest. The call for entries is effective July 25, 2003, and will come to a close on October 1, 2003. All imaginative people who want to put their creative writing skills to work are eligible. The winners will be announced in DeadFred.com's popular e-newsletter Dead Fred's Relatively Speaking: Unearthing Relevant News, Advice and Updates for the Living.

Go to http://www.deadfred.com/relatively_1_04.php to view winning entries from the first DeadFred.com Creative Writing Contest.

The inspiration for the entries is the DeadFred.com Photo at http://www.deadfred.com/photopopup.php?PhotoNumber=15583. There are two categories, Poetry and Fiction. The winner of each category will win a feature in the DeadFred.com Newsletter, $100.00 and a DeadFred.com Creative Writing Certificate. All participants will receive an honorable mention in the DeadFred.com newsletter and a DeadFred.com Creative Writing Certificate.

Entry requirements are as follows:

• Contestants may enter one submission only to each category.
• Each entry must be the original work of the contestant.
• Entries must be typed, one-sided, on 8 1/2² x 11² paper. Entry must include a cover sheet with contestant's name, address, telephone number and e-mail address. If sent via e-mail, please attach the entry as a Word document.
• There is a 1,000 word maximum for the fiction and a 300 word maximum for the poetry.
• Entries must be received by October 1, 2003.

Please send entries to jeannette@deadfred.com or the following mailing address:

DeadFred.com Creative Writing Contest
Attn: Jeannette Balleza
P.O. Box 6937
Springdale, AR 72766-6937

All entries become the exclusive property of DeadFred.com. DeadFred.com reserves the right to use winning entries in future promotions. DeadFred.com is in no way responsible for lost, late or misdirected entries. There is no entry fee required. However, a donation of any amount will be greatly appreciated. Donations by check may be made payable to Dead Fred Genealogy Photo Archive.

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