Between my aunt giving me a big box of photos that belonged to my grandmother, Irene Nellie Thrap Horner, and Mary Lou, I've climbed back out on my Thrap branch and am like a pit bull on a pork chop about it lately. New things have been found and need to be shared!
For those here I've been in touch with before, I've lost all our old emails and the contents thereof. Don't be surprised if I find your inbox and beg to get notes compared and swapped again!
I've got some pics of Grover and Maude from a motel in California, but have no idea as to date or location. I also have a photo of Henry Kirk Thrap taken 22MAY1937 at his home in Haddam, KS, which ought to perk up the ears of quite a few of my cousins around here. I even attached it to prove my bona fides! I have hundreds of other pics to work through of my grandmother's siblings - Evelyn, her twin brother Everton, Ralph and his wife Marty [that's for you MaryLou!] and who knows how many other pics of other cousins and such. Problem is - I need help in identifying people in the pics! Everyone in my family who could tell me about the photo details are now gone, as are the stories of family and I feel like I'm floundering at times.
I'd like to find a common place where these items could be placed, viewed and commented on so we could all get in to the act and share info with each other. Is a myspace or facebook page acceptable to everyone? I know Myfamily is a great site, but it's a fee-based site and it's not exactly cheap. If a Thrap family site were to be set up, I could get it started and we could all upload pics, discuss things, swap stories and gedcoms and the like. I'll do some searching, see what's out there and post findings again very soon.
I can be reached at
hornertree@hamilton.net or right here on these here boards.
Barry