I didn't get any positive identifications from my experiment on Facebook, but I had breakfast with my mom at the end of the week and when I showed her these particular pictures, she was able to give me positive IDs for the people in two of them and a possible identification for the young Air Force man in the third.
(Yes, my mom is alive and well, and yes, the straightest line between two points might have been to ask her since they were her photographs in the first place. But I happened to be working with those pictures earlier in the week and Facebook was right there and I was impatient. I also thought that getting them identified via Facebook would make an awesome blog post, either for The Genealogy Center blog or for this fledgling one.)
One of the photos is of my Grandma Laura (Bane) Slater's first cousin, Clara (Bennett) Rine, and her now late husband, Albert, and their son and his dog. Another - the Air Force fellow - might be Norman Fordyce, the son of my Great-Grandmother Jessie Krinn's half-brother, Albert Charles Fordyce, and his wife, Emma. The third is a picture of my Great Grandma Jessie Krinn, taken some 16 years after the death of her husband, George, and she is standing next to a man in the photo who looks to be about her age. I recognized Jessie from other pictures, but I wasn't sure who the man was. I speculated that it might be her half-brother, Albert Charles. Mom has another photo I was sure was taken the same day (because Jessie was wearing the same dress and shoes and the background was similar) of Jessie and all of her children. I thought maybe it was a family get-together because out of town relatives had come for a visit.
But Mom immediately said, "Oh, that's Mr. Green, my grandma's boyfriend." What??!! Boyfriend? Oh, my. This opens up a whole new avenue of research ...
