Family History Project

A family history project in progress

dental floss to help ease photographs from a page

magnifying glass to try to decipher notes obscured by glue and scrapbook paper

orange paper - Dad's note from 1994 saying he removed the photos he thought were important (and put them on the blue pages) and I could throw away the rest of Celia's 1913-1916 scrapbook. I didn't. It's full of pictures of Celia and her Sidell, Illinois and college friends. She wrote clever captions under most of the pictures. There are great pictures of Grandpa, Caryl Holton, as a college man.

The book on the right in the top picture is by Karen Cord Taylor who grew up in Vermilion county, Illinois, home of our Holton, Cathcart, Alexander, Baum, Sconce, Sandusky/Sodowsky ancestors. About 1840 her ancestors in London, England went to a lecture sponsored by our ancestor Isaac Sandusky. Sandusky sponsored lectures in London, England on the virtues of land in Vermiliion County, Illinois. He happened to "have  extensive land holdings" there. Over the next few years about 100 people from a friends and family group in London, England bought land and settled in Vermilion County. I found out about the book when I read an article in the American Ancestors magazine.