52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Week 30: Colorful – Earliest Color Photo in the Johnston Family
I am working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow . I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails Into the Past . I’m looking forward to writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. I found some color photos of my Johnston line taken in 1946 and I think they might be the earliest ones I have in color. They were living in Walnut Creek, California, about this time so they might have been taken there. Many surplus Army Jeeps were purchased and I guess my grandfather, Tom Johnston, bought one, too. This one is painted yellow! In the first photo is my grandmother (Mam-ma), Pansy “Joni” Johnston, my mother, Lela Nell, and my grandfather, Tom Johnston. The second photo has Pansy, Lela Nell, and Pansy’s father, Warren Lancaster. I need to dig through the box of negatives to see if I can find these to do a new scan. I believe I scanned these from the prints. I ...