Now that I've seen several dozen photos of my Sandner relatives, I may be able identify the people in the photo below.
Left to right:
Emma Sandner S., Homer Satterlee or a Sandner brother, Helen Sandner Satterlee, Anne Sandner H.
Date of photo?
Unknown, but the styles look like late 40s and early 50s.
Here's what the back of Jenny and Alfred's postcard looks like:
I find it almost impossible to read the German handwriting. Luckily my German professor has volunteered to transcribe these letters, trusting to her fabulous teaching that I can translate them.
The script above reads:
"An unsere Lieben ein Andenken an unsern 40. Hochzeitstag am 25. März senden wir in treuer Geschwisterliebe und ewiger Dankbarkeit.
One of the most fun parts of getting a box with jumbled photos is figuring out who the people are. Below is a photo whose subjects are probably Alfred and Jenny Sandner Naser on their 40th wedding anniversary (?).
Let's assume for now that the subjects are Jenny and Alfred. Here's what I know about them.
The source for the info below was my grandmother.
Jenny was born October 26, 1883, in Zwickau, Saxony, Germany. Jenny was the third child, second daughter of Albin and Ernestine Unger Sandner. Jenny remained behind in Zwickau when the rest of the family emigrated to the U.S. in 1892. That means she was just nine when her entire family left!
Why did she stay behind? Where and with whom did she live? Mysteries abound.
The picture above is dated about 1966, if my rusty German is correct. This means that she married Alfred about 1926. They were together during World War II and while behind the Iron Curtain.
My family tree says that Jenny died on April 10, 1971, but there is no source listed. Dang. Obviously this info was recorded at the beginning of my genealogy journey, when I wasn't as careful about listing sources. Another mystery.
This is what I think I know about Alfred: he was alive in 1966. He married Jenny. He lived in Zwickau. One of the jumble photos maybe shows him as a soldier. What job did he work at? What did he do during World War II? What job did he work at when East Germany was divided off from West Germany? More mysteries.
Other photos from the jumble prove that Alfred and Jenny had a daughter or granddaughter named Kathe. Don't know which yet. She wrote several of the jumble postcards that haven't been translated. Hope to figure out her relationship soon. (Mystery!)
Jenny resembles my grandmother so much! Same cheekbones, same nose, which they inherited from mother Ernestine.
That's about all I have discovered from the front of this photo so far. Next, a look at the back and what it can tell us about Jenny and Alfred.
Solving mysteries is my game!
Looking at old pix as time and allergies allow...slow going...
Below is a picture of Shirley Jeanne Risch, daughter of Gertrude Moeckel and John Risch. My best guess is that the picture was taken in her junior year of high school in Denver.
This one is easy because the name and date are written on the back. Here is the front:
And here is the back:
The photo is of "Mrs. Ewald Sandner and daughter 1921."
"Mrs. Ewald Sandner" was the former Sarah Jane Gardner, born 1890, died 1960. She married Ewald Sandner about 1909 because in the 1910 Census they are enumerated at 5 Main St., Mount Olive, IL, and have been married one year. She might have been pregnant when the Census worker talked to them, because Frederick, their first child, was born in December of that year.
The daughter has to be Lorraine Gertrude Sandner, who would have been about three in 1921. Ewald and Sarah's first two children were boys: Frederick born 1910 and Raymond born 1912. As far as I can tell there were only four children: Frederick, Raymond, Lorraine pictured above, and finally Doris.
I found this photo mixed with a bunch of others that came from my great-aunt's house. My great-aunt was not related by blood to the Sandners. But apparently she like them enough to save their photos.
That's nice.
More photos as I find them. Bis nachste Mal.
Having just received six boxes of family treasure from my uncle's estate, I am trying desperately to bring some order to the boxes and boxes of family history that already crowd my house. Thank heavens my husband is so patient!
Imagine my joy to re-discover a faded image of the Mining Sandner family from about 1900! The image below is a print of a scan of the original photo. I then scanned that image to get this one, which is cleaned up and enhanced to get more detail. Lots of generations, but it's the best I can do at the moment. I hope to find the original someday. Who knows? It may be buried in the boxes upon boxes. But I digress...
Here's the enhanced image:
