Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Relatives With Facial Hair
Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to: 1) This week we're going to look for men's facial hair in our photograph collections. 2) Find one or more photographs of men in your ancestral families that have facial hair - a mustache and/or a beard. 3) Show the photograph if you have it and tell us a bit about the person shown. If you don't have a digital photograph, please describe the man and his facial hair the best you can. 4) Write your own blog post, or a comment to this blog post, or a comment on Facebook or Google+. I have a photograph of my grandfather, Tom J. Johnston (1912-1973), sporting a beard. Supposedly, he grew it out for a beard growing contest for the Walnut Festival, a four-day event in late September held in Walnut Creek, California. This probably was in the last 1940s or early 1950s. I have never seen my grandfather in a beard at all, so this was really a special event for h