My Trails into the Past

This is my third year 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 have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. My mother’s ancestors lived in the south. My father’s lived in Joliet, Illinois and in Hamilton and Anaconda, Montana. My immediate family has lived in California the past 75-100 years. Photos I have of family in Montana portray them in nice weather, probably in the summer. Of course, all of the photos of family in Texas and California also show nice weather, except this one.  This photo shows my father’s older sister, Virginia Hork, on her fifth birthday, January 11, 1930. The family was living in Ontario, California. The three girls, Virginia’s older sister, Lorene, and younger sister, June, are building a snowman from the snow that had fallen in the area.  They managed to get quite a bit of snow togeth...