Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Identifying photos with Grandma Karen

A few years ago before my grandma got sick for the second time we started identifying images. So I thought I would just go through and copy and paste them along with the emailed description that my grandma gave me. Its random. But one day when everyone on this side of the family has copies of all the photos, they can look back on the blogs and get a little back story to go along with some of the photos. Here is the first correspondence:
22/09/2013
The lady is Helena haenke. She is my grandpa Haenke's sister. She was always called Lena. Even my father did not know that her real name was Helena. Lena was born in Germany. She changed her name to be more American. I spent hours with my grandpa Haenke who gave me lots of family stories. The man to Lena's right is my grandpa whose real name was Reinholdt Emil Heinrich Haenke. He changed his name to Henry Emil Reinholdt Haenke. I remember when I was a little girl that my grandpa went back to see Helena in Michigan . They visited their one room schoolhouse and other places they knew as children. The other two men in the picture I am not sure about..... The man on Lena's left is her husband I believe  . he did not have a hand. You can see he is hiding his hand behind his back. He had a hook . I do not have his name in the family tree. Wait and see if I can find it . I don't recognize the other man . He does resemble my grandpa but I don't know.

Here is the photo of them at the schoolhouse that she was referring to also.