I may have gone a little overboard with the redactions, but you can't be too careful.

When I showed this picture to him, my dad pointed out that my great-grandfather was demobilized a week after the end of WWI.

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[–] 45 points 1 year ago (7 children)
  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Comic sans wasn't invented yet.

    I mean, I joke, but it probably actually wasn't.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It wasn't, not by a long shot. Comic sans is a mere 31 years old.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Ruddy complexion

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Notice the printed date, One thousand nine hundred and ________

    Clearly this is one of the things they had to update for Y2K.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    OP make sure you or a family member makes a good resolution digital scan of it. Bonus if you contribute it to something like Wikitree for future generations.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    “Christian name first?”

    That is a whole basket of assumptions about people.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    you should get that dry mounted.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Bah. We were trying to buy a house older than that. And it wasn't a fancy "heritage" house either.

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